There's always trouble in Illyria: dragons to slay, villains to fight, and one beautiful princess after another demanding to be rescued from a fate worse than death. It's a full-time job for Charming, noble prince and professional hero. In fact, young Charming thinks he's just about ready for a leave of absence. But you're always on call in the Slay and Rescue business, and soon Charming is working overtime when he becomes embroiled in a plot involving an evil sorceress, an enchanted castle, one angry dragon, and no less than three beauteous damsels in distress, each with her own plans for our hero, and none of them to be trusted long enough to shake a sword at...
Autorentext
John Moore is an engineer who lives and works in Houston, Texas. His stories have appeared in New Destinies, Realms of Fantasy, Tomorrow SF, Writers of the Future, Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine, Aboriginal SF, and other magazines and anthologies.
Klappentext
In this comic take on fairy tales, a young prince tires of rescuing maidens and hopes to tackle a new challenge: losing his virginity.
There's always trouble in Illyria: dragons to slay, villains to fight, and one beautiful princess after another demanding to be rescued from a fate worse than death. It's a full-time job for Charming, noble prince and professional hero. In fact, young Charming thinks he's just about ready for a leave of absence.
But you're always on call in the Slay and Rescue business, and soon Charming is working overtime when he becomes embroiled in a plot involving an evil sorceress, an enchanted castle, one angry dragon, and no less thanthreebeauteous damsels in distress, each with her own plans for our hero, and none of them to be trusted long enough to shake a sword at ...