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From: gek@ihuxj.UUCP (glenn kapetansky)
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Subject: Re: Book Request
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Date: Mon, 7-May-84 23:17:39 EDT
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Posted: Mon May  7 23:17:39 1984
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The books by Chris Stasheff are good enough I thought I'd reply
to the net.  Stasheff wrote The Warlock In Spite of Himself for
a contest; he missed the contest deadline, so he published it 
instead.  There is now a prequel, Escape Velocity, dealing with
the Romantic Emigres. It's cute. The Warlock Unlocked is great,
all the charm of tWiSoH but with all the rough edges smoothed.
Between the two is King Kobold, which is a bomb. Even Stasheff
admits it, 'cause when it came up for re-release he insisted on
a rewrite.  I'm glad he did. I read King Kobold Revived yesterday,
and it's now better than EV, not as good as tWU. Her Majesty's
Warlock, or some such title, is mentioned in the inside cover of tWU,
but I haven't seen it in the shops. I wish I did; it promises to
be a winner.  There IS one other story, A Wizard In Bedlam. It is
set once Magnus is grown, and not on Gramarye.  It's good, but I'd 
rank it below EV.

So if you ignore KK in favor of KKR, everything by Stasheff rates at
least good.

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glenn kapetansky                                                      
                                                                        
                  "If I only had a brain"                               
                                                                        
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