Wiz Biz Series 1

Wizard’s Bane

By: Rick Cook

Narrated by: Joe Hempel

Q: How does a shanghaied computer geek 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!

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 hacker Walter "Wiz" Zumwalt. The wizard who cast the spell was dead and nobody - not the elves, not the dwarves, not even the dragons - could figure out what the shanghaied computer nerd was good for.

But spells are a lot like computer programs, and, in spite of the Wiz's unprepossessing appearance, he was going to defeat the all-powerful Black League, win the love of a beautiful red-haired witch, and prove that when it comes to spells and sorcery, nobody but nobody can beat a Silicon Valley computer geek!

©1989 Rick Cook (P)2020 Tantor

awesome

enthralling entertaining beter even wen heard out loud after having read paper published book.moving on through series with trepidation

not my bag

I hated are main character didn't like him early on didn't like her at all only character a good like died in the 1st 5 pages its just not for me

Great book, performance detracted from it

Excellent book, fun and a nice take on the "science in a world of magic" story.

Unfortunately, the audio performance wasn't as good as I'd hoped, with occasional mispronounced words and names, though perhaps the original text had typos, and inconsistent character voicing.

So excited this book is finally available

Loved reading this series years ago. So excited to see these books coming to Audible. Anyone who works as a developer will feel a kinship with the MC. I cant wait for the second book as I think it is even better than this one.

Small spoiler

I like the book over all but the infatuation curse that’s put on him in the beginning becomes the focus of the mc’s character... it was tolerable during the first leg of his adventure but instead of leaving him there and going back to her life like she was suppose to... she gets ordered to stay it kinda spoiled the book for me it’s frustrating and unnecessary. I got why it was originally done but why did she not remove it at-least when they got to where they were going....