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Loading... Her Majesty's Wizard (original 1986; edition 1986)by Christopher Stasheff
Work detailsHer Majesty's Wizard by Christopher Stasheff (1986)
None. 1   helver | Oct 18, 2011 |  A great book. Only one POV, and the main character had some great powers. The only think I didn't quite like was the magic system. :) (  ) LaserWraith | Mar 10, 2011 | Currently re-reading & it's a fun book. No redeeming qualities beyond being a good way to escape for a bit. He did almost as good a job on this as he did on "The Warlock In Spite Of Himself" although I consider that to be his best book. ( ) jimmaclachlan | Sep 25, 2009 | I remember liking this book so much that I turned my older sister onto the series. Now she still reads them and I don't. I thought it was very funny that all he had to do was make things rhyme for them to be magic. I liked the idea of a guy from a different planet and the effect he had on the new planet and the effect the new planet had on him. (  ) annekiwi | Jan 12, 2009 | This is a fun book. Just - pure fun. Yes, it has some morals to it. Yes it has religion as the foundation for magic and the magical world that a hero from our world finds himself in. But at the heart of it, it is a fun book. Pieces of this book fit a male-written-fantasy-from-the-80's-or-early-90's. Some of the women are described in anatomically dubious detail. But, it's a fantasy world, so I guess that's to be expected. There are not the angsty, heart-wrenching dramas that are found in many of today's fantasies, but there is character depth. There is not impossibly steamy sex, but there is a very believable pair of romances. It is, actually, quite a refreshing change of pace. This book is similar to Piers Anthony's Split Infinity. (Only Anthony's fantasy world - not his futuristic sci-fi world.) The style is similar, though I prefer Stasheff's writing. The method of using magic is also similar, though I prefer Stasheff here as well. I do greatly recommend this book. ( ) ca.bookwyrm | May 30, 2007 | no reviews | add a review
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This book reminded a lot of Donaldson's Thomas Covenant series - an antihero gets transported from the current time to a parallel world where he is the savior. Covenant, though, can't afford to allow himself to believe. And that refusal to believe leads him down a road of destruction. Matt simply refuses to believe at the beginning. Unlike Covenant, Matt does eventually allow himself to test the waters, so to speak and by experimentation, he starts to understand the world he finds himself in and to, eventually, accept it for what it is. In the end, Matt finds what he's always been after - purpose and acceptance.
I read this book on the heels of the Piers Anthony Space Tyrant series and the writing styles are markedly different. I prefer Stasheff over Anthony, even though Stasheff can be harder to read. Stasheff is content to write a book with a joke or two built it and allow the story to form and end. Anthony prefers to maximize the joke density, making the overall work seem very contrived and insubstantial.
Definitely looking forward to the next in the series. (