“I grew up reading everything I could get my hands on, as happens to many people,” Stasheff writes in the preface to one of the books in his “sorcerer” series. So he read to the point that he himself wrote a novel, which was soon recognized by the reading public as one of the most entertaining in the genre - which, you see, does not happen to many. You already guessed that we are talking about “The Reluctant Sorcerer,” which was followed by several sequels, no less famous than the first book in the series. Now Stasheff is a recognized classic of that trend in modern fiction, which easily combines magic and science, and the connection between these seemingly distant things is the writer’s good humor.