The Warlock in Spite of Himself - Christopher Stasheff

Would still be a perfect hero! This wonderful tale first printed in 1969 has everything you could look for in an adventure. Magic, technology, politics, intrigue, humor, deception, love and war set in a deceptively medieval society that exists at a crucial crossroad in history. Rodney d'Armand is the younger son from a (somewhat) noble family in the distant future. He travels with Fess, a Faithful Cybernetic Companion, who is a loyal family heirloom with a few hundred years under his belt aa well as the robotic equivalent of epilepsy. Much to Fess' embarrassment he shuts down whenever his circuitry is overloaded by trying to handle too many variables at ...  Read the complete review