The Flying Sorcerers (Paperback)

by David Gerrold (Author), Larry Niven (Author) "I was awakened by Pilg the Crier pounding excitedly on the wall of my nest and crying, "Lant! Lant! It's happened! Come quickly!..." (more)
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"David Gerrold proves that he can do all the things that made us love Heinlein’s storytelling—and often better." -- Orson Scott Card, Hugo and Nebula award-winning author, Ender’s Game and Speaker for the Dead

"Niven . . . lifts the reader far from the conventional world—and does it with a dash." -- Los Angeles Times

Product Description
This funny and insightful science fiction classic introduces Shoogar, the greatest wizard ever known in his village. His spells can strike terror in the hearts of even his most powerful enemies. But the enemy he faces now is like none he has ever seen before. The stranger has come from nowhere and is ignorant of even the most basic principles of magic. But the stranger has an incredibly powerful magic of his own. There is no room in Shoogar's world for an intruder whose powers match his own, let alone one whose powers might exceed his. So before the blue sun can cross the face of the red sun once more, Shoogar will show this stranger just who is boss.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 312 pages
• Publisher: Benbella Books (April 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1932100237
• ISBN-13: 978-1932100235
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #711,447 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful romp, June 7, 2000

By	Ken Coar "Rodent of Unusual Size" (in 1.0 AU Solar orbit) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: The Flying Sorcerers (Mass Market Paperback)

I picked this up (or it was loaned to me) because I was tickled by the title. It's a very entertaining story about a technologically advanced traveller's visit to a fairly primitive world, narrated by one of the primitives. It's an hilarious treatment of Clarke's Law in action, and a colossal pun near the end will delight long-time SF readers enormously.

This is definitely a 'G'-rated title in my book.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fine work, May 14, 2004

By	"vampirical" (Castaic, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This book is really a great work if you realize what it is, comical sci-fi. And it is not a Niven story but a Gerrold one, if you liked The Trouble With Tribbles episode of Star Trek then this for you.

To dananbethany> It's a pun, As a mauve. Asimov.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An overlooked treasure, March 26, 2004

By	Lynn Bodoni "lynnbodoni" (Fort Worth, TX United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Flying Sorcerers (Mass Market Paperback)

This is one of the funniest SF books out there. I've got an old tattered copy, and I will order the new edition when it comes out. The book is full of cultural, SF and fandom references. Some might be a little dated (for example, the symbol of the sheep, the horned box, is a reference to a TV with antenna, and how many people have seen one of THOSE lately?), but overall, this book holds up very well.

To answer another reviewer's question would be a spoiler, but anyone who wishes to know who Purple was based on can email me at my nickname at hotmail.