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    A Wizard In The Way

    By Christopher Stasheff

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    IN A SUPERNATURAL WORLD, BETTER THE DEVIL YOU KNOW.

    Interplanetary liberators Magnus and Alea land on the lost colony planet of Oldeira, where peasants live in fear. Ghosts and dragons fill the woods, mutants and madmen lurk in the ancient abandoned cities, and the local Magician Lords are as likely to abuse their peasants as protect them.

    Worse, the common folk have given up all thought of resistance. How can they fight back against mystical powers they can't even see, let alone understand? Even if they could overthrow their Magician Lord, who would protect them from the ghosts, dragons, and other magicians? No, life may be harsh, but at least it's stable... so they've resigned themselves to their fate.

    Can Magnus and Alea convince the downtrodden to fight back, to believe that they CAN fight back? Thankfully, they have a secret weapon: The Way, a competing philosophy of passive resistance. But when the Magician Lords move to crush the movement with armies of ghosts... will it be enough?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStasheff Literary Enterprises
    Release dateMar 2, 2020
    ISBN9780997158373
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    A Wizard In The Way
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    Christopher Stasheff

    Christopher Stasheff was a teacher, thespian, techie, and author of science fiction & fantasy novels. One of the pioneers of "science fantasy," his career spaned four decades, 44 novels (including translations into Czech, German, Italian, Russian, and Japanese), 29 short stories, and seven 7 anthologies. His novels are famous for their humor (and bad puns), exploration of comparative political systems, and philosophical undertones. He has always had difficulty distinguishing fantasy from reality and has tried to compensate by teaching college. When teaching proved too real, he gave it up in favor of writing full time. He tends to pre-script his life, but can't understand why other people never get their lines right. This causes a fair amount of misunderstanding with his wife and four children. He writes novels because it's the only way he can be the director, the designer, and all the actors too. Chris died in 2018 from Parkinson's Disease. He will be remembered by his friends, family, fans, and students for his kind and gentle nature, and for his witty sense of humor. His terrible puns, however, will be forgotten as soon as humanly possible.

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      Magnus and Alea this time find a lost earth colony - one that suffered all the catastrophes associated with Earth withdrawing its support from them after the colony was established but before it had completely taken root. Famine, plague, technological reversion - the whole nine yards. And into the vacuum that left stepped a new class of magicians - some technological, some animal handlers and some ghost leaders. Yes, ghosts. With the help of a bumbling apprentice ghost leader and a nascent wyverneer, Magnus and Alea teach the oppressed serfs about the Way of Taoism. This becomes their level with which to pull down the magicians.Again, slightly different. In this one, Magnus and Alea do more running away and more coaxing and teaching than in other books. And this one starts to have some of the goofiness of the Warlock series - the ghost to ghost network and the duel against the ghost in ruined city - with all kinds of body part puns were memorable in that regard.