Christopher Stasheff’s The Warlock in Spite of Himself is an old classic of the pre-New Wave science fiction/fantasy* era, of course. In other news: Chris Stasheff is still, in fact, alive! Seriously, I thought that he must have passed a decade ago, or something. Here’s his website.
And so, adieu to Hidden Figures.
Moe Lane
*Psionics are fantasy, sorry.
I think it was about a year ago when I found out he was a kicking around. From what I heard, he hadn’t been meaning to retire, he’d just been unable to sell his stories to publishers.
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He’d just gotten his rights to revert, and was looking into going Indy with them. Looks like he went small press, instead.
I remember reading his stuff in the 80’s. Have you ever read Piers Anthony’s Incarnations of Immortality series. Good series.