The teenage paperback series Mageworlds, which mixes space opera with magic, offers its seventh flying carpet and second hardback entry, following The Stars Asunder (1999), which coalesced all the themes introduced earlier into a space-faring romance as strongly distanced from mainstream realism as Moby-Dick.
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"That aside, the story's not too bad, with reasonable complications and a snappy pace."
First hardcover entry for an established paperback science fiction/fantasy hybrid series, the Mageworlds (The Long Hunt, etc.).
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"If no new ground is broken here, neither are any covenants with fans of the genre. (Fiction. 12+)"
William Odosson, eldest son of Baron Odo, is knighted and swears fealty to his Duke on the day after the castle wizard tells him of his wyrd (fate): he will never be Baron, and will see death before receiving any other title.
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