The Warlock in Spite of Himself
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The Warlock in Spite of Himself is a science fantasy novel by American author Christopher Stasheff, published in 1969. It the book in the Warlock of Gramarye series.
[edit] Characters
- Rod Gallowglass (Rodney d'Armand) is the main protagonist in the series. Born to a family of aristocrats Rod left his home planet for adventure as a SCENT agent seeking out lost colonies with the help of the family robot.
- Fess (FCC #651919) is Rod's faithful robot companion throughout the book. Fess is essentially a robotic brain capable of being transferred from computer to computer (as such he can be used as the sole computer of Rod's ship). Fess spends the majority of the series in a robotic horse suit disguise. Fess's most interesting quality is his form of epilepsy. This epilepsy is due to a weak capacitor which will become strained causing it to release all its stored energy in a single wave causing his "seizure". Fess is the approximate of two-thousand years old when Rod was born1.
- Big Tom is an anarchist agent from VETO send from the future to aid in the plan to pull Gramarye into a totalitarianism. Big Tom is befriended by Rod eventually siding with Rod over his own agents and fought alongside the Queen's army in the final battle, enevitably being killed by Durer.
