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The Compleat Traveller in Black is a collection of short stories, written in a fantasy vein, by John Brunner.

The series deals with a nameless protagonist, who bears a staff of curdled light, travelling through a landscape in which Order and Chaos are in conflict. With this, and the powers invested in him by the genii of Order, he is enabled to counter Chaos, although he chooses to do so in answer to the spoken wishes of the people around him even if not always to their immediate benefit, since some of them are vain or selfish.

Titles

Imprint of Chaos

:Originally in Science Fantasy, issue 42 (1960), in which the enchanter Manuus is manifest, and then is not.

Break the Door of Hell

:Originally in Impulse, issue 2 (1966), in which the fools of the city of Ys (led by Lord Vengis) learn from where their folly originated.

The Wager lost by Winning

:Originally in Fantastic, April 1970, in which the gamesters of Teq learn both meanings of "hazard", and ale is drunk.

The Things That Are Gods

:Originally in Isaac Asimov's SF Adventure Magazine, (Fall 1979), in which Lake Taxhling suffers a sea-change.

The Dread Empire

:Originally in Fantastic'', April 1971, in which the Four Great Ones are summoned and depart, and mighty nobles and humble peasants each get their wishes.

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