The Wizardry Cursed

Rick Cook's books are very easy reading. They go fast, they follow most standard tropes of fantasy making them a very familiar environment where almost nothing needs to be explained, apart from the one core idea of magic as a mathematical, programmable resource on which silicon valley has been let l......more

I felt this was an okay book. Not great and not bad. Some bits were interesting to figure out the references to other games. Battletech/Mechwarrior and a rts similar to C&C or more likely considering it was released in '91 Dune II (though yes that came out in '92) were pretty obvious. But overall I......more

The third release of the saga of Wiz, the Computer Sorcerer. In my opinion this part is better than the previous two: the story is more complex and rich, with more characters and subplots, which makes the reading more appealing. I'll doubtlessly go for the next one.......more

Programmers can have a dirty mind. The story wasn't too bad.......more

In the immortal words of Duke Aelric, this book was "not boring". Good enough that we're still game to read the other 3 we own.......more