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Title: The Wiz Biz by Rick Cook ISBN: 0-671-87846-8 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: October, 1997 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (18 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Computer Programmers Unite!
Comment: The Wiz Zumwalt books by Rick Cook are very entertaining. I judge books by how often I go back to re-read them, and each book in this series has been read by me at least four times each. In the case of 'The Wizardry Compiled' and 'The Wizardry Cursed' a few more times each. Some authors produce series where readers continue to buy mainly out of loyalty to characters and the author's world (like Thomas Covenant: the Unbeliever, which by the time I gave up (after the second book of the first trilogy) I was moaning 'Oh Good Grief, when will it END? '), Rick Cook's Wiz stories are endlessly entertaining.
But then, as a computer programmer myself, I relate really well to computer languages as a form of magic!
He says he won't be writing any more Wiz books for the near future, but he better change his tune, because I have cooked up a really wicked geas, and it will make him start cranking them out unless he relents and does it: ONE MORE TIME!
Well, Rick Cook, whataya
Rating: 5
Summary: A fascinating breath of fresh air
Comment: This wonderful book is actually two books for the price of one: Wizard's Bane and The Wizardry Compiled! These novels tell the story of Walter Irving "Wiz" Zumwalt, a computer programmer extraordinaire who is hijacked from Earth, and brought to a world where magic works, but technology doesn't. The wizard who brought over Wiz is dead, and no one can figure out why he was brought, but when Wiz discovers that magic can be handled just like programming, the nature of the world turns upside down. The Dark League has had its own way too long, and now they are about to find out what happens when a hacker turns his attention against them.
This is a great book, one that I have enjoyed reading several times. The system of magic that Rick Cook used was a fascinating breath of fresh air, and I must say that I enjoyed the stories and characters immensely! I highly recommend this light-hearted swords-and-sorcery fantasy to you.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good read
Comment: Nice little story.
A modern programmer thrown into the world of magic. Unique look at a magic system that is based on computer language...story does a good job of telling the whole story so that you aren't left hanging for the second book, but does leave you wanting to further explore what happens to Wiz and his firey hedge-witch.
I felt the end was a bit rushed, but still it was great.
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Title: Wiz Biz II : Cursed and Consulted by Rick Cook, James P. Baen, James Baen ISBN: 0743436172 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Wizardry Quested by Cook ISBN: 0671877089 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 1996 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Wizardry Compiled by Rick Cook ISBN: 0671698567 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: January, 1990 List Price(USD): $3.95 |
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Title: Wizard's Bane by Rick Cook ISBN: 0671698036 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: February, 1989 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: The WIZARDRY CONSULTED by Cook ISBN: 0671877003 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1995 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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