{celebrating a decade of learning to write in front of an audience}

Wizard’s Bane

I’ve been meaning to change my Recently Read Books list (now, again, woefully out-of-date) to a series of blog posts that share a tag and that actually review the books in question.  This would ideally be accomplished by starting at the beginning of the trail of books as far back as I can recall their sequence.

But I’ve just got to shatter those plans by recommending a book: a fantasy novel by Rick Cook in which a computer programmer is whisked out our world into a magical realm in which, to save his love, he has to systematize and hack magic.  This is great fun for nerdy FRP folks and fantastically interesting in that I didn’t write it.

I found this entirely by accident.  I was looking for something at the Baen Free Library to send to my Kindle.  I liked the title.  I didn’t know the author, didn’t even know it was the first in a five-book series.  How fortuitous.  Great fun.

Amazon: Wizard’s Bane

Or free etext: Wizard’s Bane



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