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This book is the third 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 finished off the Black League (that's the Bad Guys), prevented a war between the immortal races and humans, and completed the spell compiler (thanks to a summoned off-world team of contract programmers) in the previous book (The Wizardry Compiled), is dealing with trivia that goes along with maintaining what you have created. He's kinda frustrated. But, thanks to the writer, there's no need to worry. Enter Craig and Mikey, two bored and talented cyberpunks from our world who get wind of the parallel world that Wiz lives in (by way of the contract programmers from The Wizardry Compiled). They figure out how to send themselves to Wiz's world for the ultimate hack. Unfortunately for everyone, they are intercepted on their inter-universal journey by some Big, Bad Old Things who persuade them to cooperate with their diabolical plot to rule the universes. To help Craig and Mikey out, the Big, Bad Old Things create a bubble universe that is overlaps both our world and Wiz's world. Within this bubble universe, magic and technology both work, but neither works as well as it should. What follows is yet 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 numerous interactions between the two parallel worlds (such as stealing a supercomputer from the KGB and a dogfight between a dragon and an F-15) that seriously stretch the credulity of even this series of books. 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 two books) and would be better off spending their time filing their nails. Page created 5/27/97. |
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