Green Magic-Jack Vance short story
Green Magic - Jack Vance short story Green Magic is a 12/14 page short story that was probably written in 1956 and was first published in June, 1963 in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction . It has been included in numerous science fiction anthologies and is in the Jack Vance collections: The Moon Moth and Other Stories and Wild Thyme, Green Magic. There was also a 1979 limited pamphlet release of 300 copies by Underwood Miller Limited This is a philosophical fantasy story rather than science fiction. Howard Fair is well trained in white magic and black magic and knows some purple magic. He is intrigued when he finds an old notebook by his great uncle that describes green magic . He meets some sprites who come from a world of green magic but who warn him that it would be dangerous for him to study it. He is told that his grand uncle studied it and ended up regretting having done so. Despite their warnings, Fair's curiosity ...