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LIBERO PIROGIA!Magnus D'Armand, the renegade son of Rod Gallowglass, Warlock of Gramarye, has set out to prove himself twice the hero and liberator his father ever was. However, Magnus has inherited not only his father's awesome psychic gifts, but his uncanny knack for getting into trouble as well.
Bored and in search of excitement, Magnus D'Armand has asked his sentient starship to find him a world in need of revolution. But on the lost colony world of Petrach, he finds far more than he's show more bargained for. Not only is the merchant city of Pirogia's fledgling republic about to be wiped off the map by an alliance of nobles determined to maintain aristocratic rule, but the lords are backed by shadowy and powerful off-world organizations interfering with the planet for their own self-serving reasons. Even the Rogue Wizard will need a miracle to keep Pirogia alive and free against such odds!
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Magnus lands on a planet reminiscent of renaissance Italy and works to set up the independent merchant cities to cast off the shackles of the aristocracy. But he gets bumped on the head one time too many and winds up playing the fool in more ways than one.
Unlike the Warlock series, this one just doesn't have the sense of fun to it. Magnus is going out among the stars helping wayward planets because he's bored and it's the job he's decided to take on. And the writing seems to echo that. It's a job. Even though the book was short and it was a relatively quick read, I never got hooked by it the way Rod got me hooked. It may be that Magnus is SUCH a superman (telepath, telekinetic, 7' tall, warrior, scholar, rich beyond imagining, able to show more tap into modern technology) that I almost find myself rooting for the bad guys to find some way to take him out. show less
Unlike the Warlock series, this one just doesn't have the sense of fun to it. Magnus is going out among the stars helping wayward planets because he's bored and it's the job he's decided to take on. And the writing seems to echo that. It's a job. Even though the book was short and it was a relatively quick read, I never got hooked by it the way Rod got me hooked. It may be that Magnus is SUCH a superman (telepath, telekinetic, 7' tall, warrior, scholar, rich beyond imagining, able to show more tap into modern technology) that I almost find myself rooting for the bad guys to find some way to take him out. show less
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Science fiction/fantasy writer Christopher Stasheff was born in Mount Vernon, New York in 1944. He received a BA and a MA in Speech and Broadcasting from the University of Michigan and a PhD in Theater from the University of Nebraska. He taught theater at Montclair State University in New Jersey before leaving to become a full-time author. He show more writes the following series: Warlock, Star Troupers, Rogue Wizard, and Wizard in Rhyme. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- A Wizard in Mind
- Dedication
- To the girl who inspired it all -
you know who you are - First words
- A spy can't quit and stay healthy - everybody knows that.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Magnus sat back as he looked it over, considering which world should be his next chance to find love and a home - or sudden, blessed death.
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