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A Wizard in Absentia

64.3% complete
1993
2024
1 time
12 chapters
Book Cover
Has a genre Has a year read Has a rating In my library In a series 
2787
Copyright © 1993 by Christopher Stasheff
No dedication.
By the time the sun had risen, Ian had made perhaps three miles.
May contain spoilers
So was Magnus.
No comments on file
Extract not on file

 

Added: 15-Mar-2020
Last Updated: 07-Oct-2024

Quotes

Doctrine by its nature is fallible.  When it becomes inflexible, it opens itself to mistakes.  You can't live your life by principles alone; you have to have compassion, too.  If you don't, the best principles in the world can be corrupted into inhumanity.  It's people who matter, not causes.

Publications

 01-Mar-1993
Ace
Mass Market Paperback
In my libraryI read this editionOrder from amazon.comHas a cover imageBook Edition Cover
Date Issued:
Cir 01-Mar-1993
Format:
Mass Market Paperback
Cover Price:
$4.99
Pages*:
263
Read:
Once
Reading(s):
1)   11 Feb 2024 - 17 Feb 2024
Internal ID:
2593
Publisher:
ISBN:
0-441-51569-X
ISBN-13:
978-0-441-51569-1
Printing:
1
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
Ciruelo Cabral  - Cover Artist
His father's a warlock; his mother, a witch.  Or so it seems on the planet Gramayre, where modern technology is the ultimate "magic."  Now Magnus Gallowglass is leaving his family and his home - in a starship driven by the brain of the robo-horse Fess.  It's one small step for science... one giant leap for wizardry!
Cover:
Book CoverBook Back CoverBook Spine
Notes and Comments:
Ace edition / March 1993
First printing based on number line
Canada: $5.99
Image File
01-Mar-1993
Ace
Mass Market Paperback

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Author(s)

 Christopher Stasheff
Birth: 15 Jan 1944 Mount Vernon, New York, USA
Death: 10 Jun 2018 Champaign, Illinois, USA

Notes:
From the "About the Author" secton in Mind Out of TIme:

Christopher Stasheff (1944 - 2018) spent his early childhood in Mount Vernon, New York, but spent the rest of his formative years in Ann Arbor, Michigan.  He always had difficulty distinguishing fantasy from reality and has tried to compromise by teaching college.  When teaching proved too real, he gave it up in favor of writing full time.  He wrote novels because it was the only way he could be the director, the designer, and all the actors too.  He tended to prescript his life, but couldn't understand why other people never get their lines right.  This caused a fair amount of misunderstanding with his wife and four children.  He seeks refuge in fantasy worlds of his own making, and hopes you enjoy them as much as he does.

Christopher died in 2018 from Parkinson's Disease.  He will be remembered by his friends, family, fans, and students for his kind and gentle nature, willingness to guide and mentor any who asked, and for his witty sense of humor.  His terrible puns, however, will be forgotten as soon as humanly possible.


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