The Unicorn Girl is a science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 novel by Michael Kurland

Michael Kurland

Michael Joseph Kurland is an American author, best known for his works of science fiction and detective fiction....

 originally released in 1969.

Plot introduction

The novel is the second part of the Greenwich Village Trilogy, with Chester Anderson

Chester Anderson

Chester Valentine John Anderson was a novelist, poet, and editor in the underground press. Raised in Florida, he attended the University of Miami from 1952 to 1956 before becoming a beatnik coffee house poet in Greenwich Village and San Francisco's North Beach...

 writing the first book (The Butterfly Kid

The Butterfly Kid

The Butterfly Kid is a science fiction novel by Chester Anderson originally released in 1967. It was nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1968. The novel is the first part of the Greenwich Village Trilogy, with Michael Kurland writing the second book and the third volume written by T.A...

) and the third volume (The Probability Pad) written by T.A. Waters

T.A. Waters

Thomas Alan Waters was an American magician, writer about magic, and science fiction author.-History:...

.

This novel follows the adventures of Michael and Chester though unknown worlds in a quest to assist a damsel in distress - which turns into a quest to save reality. One of the parallel worlds visited is that of Randall Garrett

Randall Garrett

Randall Garrett was an American science fiction and fantasy author. He was a prolific contributor to Astounding and other science fiction magazines of the 1950s and 1960s...

's Lord Darcy.