Lyndon Hardy

Island Magic

1 - Zoltan (Sep-2019)
2 - Vivian (Sep-2023)
3 - Zoltan and Vivian (Sep-2023)

Magic by the Numbers

1 - Master of the Five Magics (Oct-1980)
2 - Secret of the Sixth Magic (Sep-1984)
3 - Riddle of the Seven Realms (May-1988)
4 - The Archimage's Fourth Daughter (Nov-2017)
5 - Magic Times Three (Jan-2020)
6 - Double Magic (Dec-2020)

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  Master of the Five Magics
  

  • Oct-1980
  • / Fantasy
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  Magic by the Numbers - 1
  

  QUEST OF THE FAIR LADY Alodar was a mere apprentice thaumaturge, learning the least of the five arts of magic. As such, he had no right to aspire to the hand of the fair lady, Queen Vendora, not even when he saved her during the demon-inspired sie...

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  Secret of the Sixth Magic
  

  • Sep-1984
  • / Fantasy
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  Magic by the Numbers - 2
  

  BEYOND THE FIVE MAGICS The laws of the five magics were being set aside. First to go were those of the high art of sorcery. Then true magic, upon which the commerce of all Arcadia depended, had been voided. And now even thaumaturgy, the engineerin...

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  Riddle of the Seven Realms
  

  • May-1988
  • / Fantasy
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  Magic by the Numbers - 3
  

  The worst of the mess they were in, Kestrel knew, was that it was all his own fault. It all began when he had tried to cheat the lady wizard Phoebe with a load of worthless wood. When she insisted on testing his sample, the demon Astron had burst ...

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  The Archimage's Fourth Daughter
  

  • Nov-2017
  • / Epic Fantasy
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  Magic by the Numbers - 4
  

  A strange planet with different technology
  No one knows about magic
  Or do they?
  A fun read. It sticks to the rules [Hardy] laid out 30 years ago, [but this time] the stakes are higher. - Larry Niven

  Finally! A book in the Magic by ...

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  Zoltan
  

  • Sep-2019
  • / Fantasy
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  Island Magic - 1
  

  What is the best use of magic?Zoltan, the grifter, knewHe was the best con artist aroundOf course, he called himself Zoltan the Great!Benthos was perfect! An isolated island in the great ocean. Full of ignorant rubes. They wouldn’t know the fir...

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  Magic Times Three
  

  • Jan-2020
  • / Fantasy
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  Magic by the Numbers - 5
  

  Is time immutable?
  Can stepping on a butterfly in the Jurassic change human history?
  Might denizens of the realm of demons have something to do with it?
  You bet!
  Fig stumbled a step backward. No towering devil stood before him as he ...

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  Double Magic
  

  • Dec-2020
  • / Fantasy
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  Magic by the Numbers - 6
  

  Sylvia is a serving wench tending to the needs of a wizard who is past his prime. She gets sucked into a palace intrigue that has a much deeper threat lurking below the surface.Despite herself, Sylvia gasped. She withdrew into herself. Like almost ev...

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  Vivian
  

  • Sep-2023
  • / Fantasy
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  Island Magic - 2
  

  Like many other alchemists, Vivian had been dispatched to the end of the world with her mentor -- seeking a cure for the pandemic plague. But he had caught it and was dying. She was left to fend for herself, the first woman to practice the craft in a...

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  Zoltan and Vivian
  

  • Sep-2023
  • / Fantasy
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  Island Magic - 3
  

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  One Last Heist
  

  • / General Fiction
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  Would Diana, the sorceress, ever get out from under the oppressive control by her uncle?Could Nicholas finally put behind himself his failures as a magician?How could Lionel dance through the perils of warring lords unscathed?Who were the magicians r...

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