Secret of the Sixth Magic, 2nd Edition (Magic by the Numbers, #2)
Description
The laws of the five magics were being set aside. If the world was to be saved it was up to Jason the wordsmith. But what was he to do? He had writer's block and suffered from agoraphobia. He was not a hero for the sagas.
"Lyndon Hardy brings us a story in which the rigorous application of logic gives an added dimension of reality to fantasy" - Lester del Rey
Out of print for almost thirty years and now available again.
Contains glossary, and author's afterward.
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I am a New York Times best-selling author of the Magic by the Numbers fantasy series. One Last Heist is planned to be published in December 2023 but will be available for preorder in September.
I meld my knowledge from a PhD in elementary particle physics with the fantasy of alchemy, sorcery, and wizardry to produce tales in which there are constraints and limitations. Magic is not omnipotent. When the protagonists are in a jam, they are not saved with a simple bibbity, bobbiity, boo.
With the exception that book 5, Magic Times Three, involves the same protagonists as book 4, The Archimage's Fourth Daughter, all the books in the series have different leading characters. They can be read in any order.
I have some experience with adventures in our universe as well -- orchestrating the classic Rose Bowl Card Stunt in 1962. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Rose_Bowl_Hoax
I have yet to come up with a plot in which a stamp collector saves the universe.
