Rick Cook


Rick Cook is a light fantasy author from the United States, best known for his Wizardry series of books. His writing includes many jokes that are hard to appreciate without having a background in systems-level programming, though the books themselves can easily be enjoyed by readers without such a background.

Published works

Novels

Wizardry series

What "Wiz" Zumwalt could do with computers was magic on Earth. Then, one day the master computer hacker is called to a different world to help fight an evil known as the "Dark League". Suddenly, the "Wiz" finds himself in a place governed by magicand in love with a red-headed witch who despises him.
  1. Wizard's Bane,
  2. The Wizardry Compiled,
  3. The Wizardry Cursed,
  4. The Wizardry Consulted,
  5. The Wizardry Quested,
  6. The Wizardry Capitalized, unpublished and unfinished
Cook was in the process of writing book 6 of this series, in spring 2000, when emergency heart surgery, and subsequent medication, interrupted him. The novel remains uncompleted, and Cook asked for input on his blog site as to whether or not he should publish the unfinished work as he felt that he would be unable to finish writing it. In February 2008 he announced that he has decided to present the unfinished work online.

Other novels