The Wizardry Consulted — Rick Cook

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--and the Dragons have him! All here will no doubt recall that the magic kingdom to which Wiz was sorcerously summoned back in 1988 was in a terrible state (as well as being a terrible state). It was a full-scale war between mere mortal humanity and all the fell creatures of darkness and chaos--and the creatures were winning! Slowly but surely, the realm of "tame" magics and honest sorcerers was contracting under the onslaught. What to do, what to do?

Enter Wiz Zumwalt, who within a remarkably short time had recognized that the incredibly difficult task of spell-casting as practiced in the magic kingdom was exactly the same as trying to write computer code in machine language. From that realization it was but a hop, skip and magical jump to turning the magic kingdom into the kind of world that humans like, the kind with humans on top.

But that was then and this is now. Wiz has been kid-napped by a dragon. His ransom demand is not wealth but salvation for dragonkind in this new human-friendly--but not dragon-friendly--universe. What to do. . .what to do?