According to de Camp's friend and fellow writer Darrell Schweitzer, De Camp wrote one additional Novarian novel, with "a quasi-Polynesian setting," under the working title of "The Sedulous Sprite". It was reportedly de Camp's last novel, representing a noticeable falling-off in quality from his better work, and was considered unpublishable. The first page of the manuscript, which has been shared online by Schweitzer, indicates it to be a first-person narrative by a non-human protagonist like "The Fallible Fiend", in this instance Belinka, the duty-obsessed fairy and major supporting character from "The Honorable Barbarian" (to which it serves as a sequel).