The Warlock in Spite of Himself (Rod Gallowglass, volume 2) by Christopher Stasheff

[james_davis_nicoll]

In which a determined aristocrat from an interstellar democracy infiltrates a backward world only to find himself face to face with witches, warlocks, and outside agitators.

The Warlock in Spite of Himself (Rod Gallowglass, volume 2) by Christopher Stasheff

Comments

[jreynolds197]

I liked this book and many of its sequels when I was in early teen-hood. Got rid of them long ago, without a farewell re-read.

Probably for the best, since it seems that the Suck Fairy paid it such a strong visit.

while far superior authors were lost to the midlist death spiral

The race doesn't always go to the swift. What I wouldn't give for a bunch of sequels to aborted series that were (in my estimation) excellent.

[patrick_morris_miller]

The race doesn't always go to the swift. What I wouldn't give for a bunch of sequels to aborted series that were (in my estimation) excellent.

Maybe someday someone will stabilize a wormhole to a universe where Brian Daley kept writing Hobart Floyt/Alacrity FitzHugh books.

(And another where Marc Miller thought of a metaplot that didn't involve gigadeaths... though I'd be just as happy in a universe where he didn't do a metaplot at all.)

[(Anonymous)]

I'm unsure whether to be guided when James declares that a book which I recall I've enjoyed - as this one, is not only not to his taste, but objectively bad. I also recall that the romance element is, well, of its time. Such that the reviewer doesn't like that, perhaps.

Robert Carnegie