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_WebMage_, Kelly McCullough
The title is the worst thing about this book. Really, can you get any more early 90s? (Publication date was 2006).
Everything else, then, is better. The worst of that is the mangled computerese that passes for magical terminology; I can't really see why the magical metaverse, which is apparently run by the Greek pantheon, relentlessly uses turn-of-the-21st Century IT metaphors.
And the worst of the remainder is pretty good: a story which is properly hinted, which has a nontrivial plot, which has characters distinguishable by more than verbal tics. In fact, a pretty good story, about Lachesis' g'g'g'g'g'...g'reat-grandson Ravirn, his AnthroPC sidekick (kinda) and a battle between chaos and order. Apparently this is book one of at least 3, but it stands alone and wraps up well.
The title is the worst thing about this book. Really, can you get any more early 90s? (Publication date was 2006).
Everything else, then, is better. The worst of that is the mangled computerese that passes for magical terminology; I can't really see why the magical metaverse, which is apparently run by the Greek pantheon, relentlessly uses turn-of-the-21st Century IT metaphors.
And the worst of the remainder is pretty good: a story which is properly hinted, which has a nontrivial plot, which has characters distinguishable by more than verbal tics. In fact, a pretty good story, about Lachesis' g'g'g'g'g'...g'reat-grandson Ravirn, his AnthroPC sidekick (kinda) and a battle between chaos and order. Apparently this is book one of at least 3, but it stands alone and wraps up well.
