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This book is the second in a series of books about a parallel world to ours where magic is a very real thing and technology isn't. Our hero, "Wiz" Zumwalt, having almost single-handedly broken the back the Black League (that's the Bad Guys) in the previous book (Wizard's Bane), is busily trying get his magic compiler working so he can get on with his life. A what? Well, in our last installment, Wiz discovered that the effects of the more powerful (and complex) spells of the great wizards could be imitated by persons with virtually no magical ability whatsoever through the use of repeated iterations of small, weak spells (yeah, kinda like microcode). Net result, he created a FORTH-like spell programming language for people to use. Just go with it, okay? So, now he's settled in comfortably with the prestige of recent victory and the love of his bodacious red-headed wife, not to mention the useful task of improving his spell compiler and teaching people who to use it to write their own spells. Except that the Black League is only Mostly Dead. What follows is another lively romp through a not-especially-well-developed fantasy world (where the big city is still just known as "The Capital"), this time involving summoning a group of contract programmers from our world to help Wiz get the job done. But, if you're a computer geek, this book is loaded with inside jokes that you will love. Non-geeks will be completely bored (unless they got hooked on the first book) and would be better off spending their time filing their nails. Page created 5/27/97. |
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