Callipygia
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 Cover of first edition | |
| Author | Lin Carter |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Walter Velez |
| Language | English |
| Series | Terra Magica |
| Genre | Fantasy |
| Publisher | DAW Books |
Publication date | 1988 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 252 |
| ISBN | 0-88677-262-1 |
| OCLC | 17528374 |
| 813.54 .C246c | |
| LC Class | PR6039.O32 C34 1988 |
| Preceded by | Mandricardo |
Callipygia: Further Adventures in Terra Magica is a fantasy novel by American writer Lin Carter, the fourth and last in his series about the fictional "Flat Earth" of Terra Magica. It was first published in paperback by DAW Books in February 1988. A trade paperback edition was published by Wildside Press in 2002, with an ebook edition following from Gateway/Orion in January 2020.[1]
The novel's setting of Terra Magica is "the world as imagined by Dark Age European geographers and bestiary-writers," envisioned as one that "actually exists as a world parallel to our own. There magic works, hippogryphs and mantichores roam free, the earth is flat, paynims worship Termagant, and there is no Western Hemisphere."[2]
Bickering lovers Callipygia the Amazon and Prince Mandricardo of Tartary (descendant of the famous one) continue their quest through Terra Magica, seeking their way home to their happily ever after amid the perils of the fabled lands they traverse. Finding themselves trapped on a flying island none have ever escaped, they are launched into new adventures into far-distant realms, involving magic, menace, a wishing ring and an ogre's wrath.
Again, chapter notes at the end of the book reference the sources in earlier fantasy literature of various creatures and character and place names used by the author.