Scot in Modern Fiction
Scot is portrayed as a black magician given to practical jokes in James Hogg's novel The Three Perils of Man.
Allan Massie's novels The Evening of the World and Arthur the King (as well as a third projected novel) are written in the format of a romance composed by Scot on the theme of empire for the instruction of Frederick II; it implies that Scot and Frederick were lovers.
Scot is the title character in the historic fantasy novel The Lord of Middle Air by Michael Scott Rohan, who claims descent from the magician.
Jane Yolen's Tartan Magic series features Scot as a villain.
In the children's television fantasy Shoebox Zoo, Michael Scot has survived to the present day, where he acts as a Gandalf-like character, serving as the mysterious, if somewhat grouchy, advisor to the protagonist, Marnie. He is played by Peter Mullan.
Michael Scot is raised from the dead in "The Adept", by Katherine Kurtz and Deborah Turner Harris. He is reincarnated in the sequel, "The Adept Book Two: The Lodge of the Lynx".
Michael Scott was the teacher of the wizard Prospero in John Bellairs' novel The Face in the Frost.
In John Buchan’s The Three Hostages (1924), Scott and his work Physiognomia are mentioned in reference to the arts of spiritual/mind control, a subject of great interest to Dominick Medina, the tale's antagonist.
Scot appears as an Archmage in the White Wolf Publishing Mage/Changeling supplement Isle of the Mighty. (1996)
In the book "Falketårnet" (English: "The Falcon Tower") by Erik Fosnes Hansen, he is one of the important characters. In this book he is known as an astrologer who gives another main character, Wolfgang, a horoscope.
In the short story "The Perils of the Double Sign" by Robertson Davies, (which appears in a collection called High Spirits,) the narrator mentions that Michael Scot is one of his favourite authors, and his knowledge of Scot's work on the occult aids him in his encounters with a genie.
Michael Scot plays a small but significant part in the Petroc Trilogy of novels by Pip Vaughan-Hughes and also appears in the latest related novel 'The Fools' Crusade'.
Michael Scot (seemingly reincarnated as a child) plays a larger role in the young adult novel "How to Make a Golem and Terrify People" by Alette Willis.
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