The Wizards and the Warriors is a 1986 novel written by Hugh Cook. It is the first volume in Cook’s Chronicles of an Age of Darkness series, which combines sword-and-sorcery adventure with dark humor and complex worldbuilding.
Plot summary The Wizards and the Warriors centres on the interactions between wizards and warriors within a chaotic fantasy world.
Reception Publishers Weekly described the novel positively: "Cook began his fantasy series Chronicles of an Age of Darkness with the witty The Wizards and the Warriors, which viewed magicians as their world's equivalent of none-too-responsible nuclear physicists."
Stephen Dillon reviewed The Wizards and the Warriors for Adventurer magazine, writing: "This is a story about personalities, not powers, about people more than politics. Wizards are real and so are Warriors; they each have their strengths and weaknesses, their likes and dislikes, ambitions and conflicts."
Reviews Review by Pauline E. Dungate [as by Pauline Morgan] (1987) in Fantasy Review, January–February 1987https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?12288 Review by Ken Lake (1987) in Vector 136 Review by Andy Sawyer (1987) in Paperback Inferno, #65
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