The Witches of Karres

With a title like 'The Witches of Karres', you might expect a fantasy novel revolving around fairytale magic with perhaps some unicorns, a shining knight, damsels in distress, and an evil wizard or two thrown into the mix. Instead, what we have here is an old-fashioned space-romp complete with alternate universes, evil aliens, a run-amok space-ship AI, time-travel, cosmic entities dabbling in the affairs of humans and... yes, a planet of witches. Don't worry. It all works wonderfully.

This is classic sci-fi of the "Hornblower in Space" variety. The pace is fast. The wit is dry. If you don't enjoy this book, you need to have your fun circuits checked because they just might be malfunctioning.