A Wizard in a Feud
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Publisher Description
HOW DO YOU STOP AN ENDLESS CYCLE OF VIOLENCE?
When Gar Pike—the Rogue Wizard—and his traveling companion Alea land on a lost colony planet to do some minor ship repairs, they decide to take some time for shore leave and explore. It’s not long before they meet one of the planet’s local life forms: Fairies.
As they explore the world and meet its inhabitants—colonists long ago transplanted from Scotland and then forgotten—they quickly realize every clan is feuding with their neighboring clans. Though everyone secretly wants peace, nobody listens to the few people brave enough to preach it—and send them into exile instead.
Posing as traders and healers, Gar and Alea team up with the Fairies, the Wee Folk, and two particularly courageous exiles to reintroduce the abandoned Druidic religious traditions to the people in an attempt to bring peace to all the clans.
But can anyone return peace and order to a world where constant clan warfare has been a way of life for generations?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this delightful blend of fantasy and space opera, the ninth in Stasheff's (The Warlock in Spite of Himself) Rogue Wizard series, Gar Pike and his colleague, Alea, must reunite a lost planetary colony, apparently consisting of Scots, who no longer possess the parts, fuels and know-how to keep a technological civilization going. While the colony has spread, society has broken down into constantly warring clans equipped with muskets. Add to this mix two intelligent, alien species, each with six limbs. In the more evolved species, the fairies, two of the limbs have become wings. Their ground-dwelling cousins, elves, are equipped with two sets of arms. Fairies, elves and humans exist in an uneasy truce. The humans have learned to avoid the deep forests, while the fairy and elves avoid the farms and the ill-kept roads threatened by outlaws and traveled mainly by peddlers and priests of a religion that has largely fallen into disbelief. On occasion lovers from feuding clans take up residence near the fairy mounds or clearings protected by the aliens' psychic powers and herbalism. The various conflicts and plot twists will keep new readers happily turning the pages, while established fans will probably find of most interest the evolving relationship between Gar and Alea. The author of several other series (Starship Troupers, the Warlock's Heirs, etc.), Stasheff shows once again that he's the master of easy, entertaining fantasy.
