Rick Cook

• 2016
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It all began when the wizards of the White League were under attack by their opponents of the Black League and one of their most powerful members cast a spell to bring forth a mighty wizard to aid their cause. What the spell delivered was master hack...

• Aug-2011
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He wakes in a prison, or seems to. Addison Taylor doesn't know where he is, only that he's not at home in his bed, where he'd gone to sleep the night before. The world has passed him by, and now mankind is gone. He comes upon a woman, Winn Cox, just ...

• Jul-2011
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It's Chester Lansing's final year as an undergrad, and he's more than anything ready to put the rote classwork behind him, to begin his Graduate program and become a teacher. But something odd is happening on campus this semester, and Chester is the ...

• Mar-2006
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In Tenure, eighteen-year-old Elizabeth Toi, a freshman at a small college in New York's Finger Lakes region, hopes to cast away the pain and humiliation she endured during high school and start anew. But then a seminar assignment, dogs, coffee cups, ...

• Mar-1996
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WIZ ZUMWALT ON THE INGREDIENTS OF THE PERFECT QUEST: GOOD COMPANIONS: "Malkin's a kleptomaniac adrenaline junkie, June's crazy, Danny's still kind of wild and the dwarf, Glandurg, is just plain dangerous." MAGIC WEAPONS: "The sword Blind Fury...

• Dec-1995
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Wiz Zumwalt Consultant Systems Analyzed * Dragons Defeated Call at the sign of the Red-Headed Witch CONSULT OR DIE! Back after too long an absence, Programmer and Systems Analyst Extraordinaire Wiz Zumwalt, The Man Who Tamed Magic, returns-...

• Dec-1993
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WALPURGIS NIGHT WAS NOTHING TO THIS When Andy Westin became a security guard at Black Oak Mall he had no idea what he was getting into. During daylight hours the place seemed ordinary enough -- although there is just the occasional flicker of moti...

• Dec-1993
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"I HAVE A WHAT ON MY SIX?" Once upon a time, Major Mick Gilligan, USAF, didn't believe in Magic. Nor, had he been told of it, would he have believed in the elf Lisella, or cared that she had cursed master programmer Wiz Zumwalt, late of Cupertino ...

• Jan-1990
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Q: How does a shanghaied computer Beek conquer all the forces of Darkness and win the love of the most beautiful witch in the world? A: By transforming himself from a demon programmer into a programmer of demons! Darkness defeating and witch wo...

• Aug-1989
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The demonic aliens had been trapped in a single planetless system for a million years. Now the Earthmen have uncorked the bottle......

• Feb-1989
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What do you get when a computer geek crosses a wizard? Answer: A very angry wizard--and a computer geek in a lot of trouble. Spells are a lot like computer programs: they're both formulas, recipes for getting things done. And they both can be bu...