There are lots of beliefs and ideas about how the world came into being, whether or not there is some higher power that controls the universe and everything that happens within. Martin Banks has just found out that none of those are true. While digging around in the files of some company, he discovered a file that controls the universe. As one would expect with that much power Martin got himself into trouble. It only took him a week before he was being chased down by federal agents. Rather than face his crimes, he decided to run away to be a wizard in medieval England. When he arrives he finds that there are quite a few other time travelers like him already there. While training to join their ranks, Martin also has to deal with a number of strange occurrences that were obviously caused by “magic” and try to track down the culprit. As well as acclimating to the ostentatious chairman of the wizards: Merlin. Well, that’s what he calls himself anyway, his real name is Jimmy. And London? Merlin has renamed that Camelot. Does Martin become a full-fledged wizard? Which of the other wizards is to blame for the weird things going on? Find out in this first book in Scott Meyer’s Magic 2.0 series.
The idea behind the world of this novel is so interesting. What if we really are just lines of script in a code? What if we are just part of a computer program? This world is put together with so much humor, and is full of references to movies, music, and video games of the past. The way the “wizards” in the book police themselves, the regulations they use, and the ways they are able to use their computer programming skills to make their abilities look like what one would expect is really cool. The way the characters all interact, a bunch of guys from many different points in time, is fun as well. It starts the mind going on how people meet under the strangest of circumstances sometimes. Many of the characters would never have met if they never found the file. Suddenly they are thrown together living and existing hundreds of years before they are even supposed to be alive. Meyer’s incorporating of the myth of the wizard Merlin is also successful. It adds a bit extra humor on top of an already funny book. It is rare to read more than a page or two without a giggle. The book is a pretty light and easy read. Definitely a book that can be read again and again.
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