Saint Vidicon to the Rescue

By Christopher Stasheff

Book Overview

Tech troubleshooter Tony Ricci has been recruited by Saint Vidicon--the patron saint of computer geeks--to combat the forces of evil that wreak havoc within all things technological. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 044101271X
• ISBN13: 9780441012718
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Ace Books
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 3.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.2" x 6.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher

Customer Reviews

In Dr. Stasheff's defense

After reading the other two reviews, I felt I should put in my slightly more informed two cents. The complaint that this book reads as a set of short stories instead of a straight stream of thought can be justified by the fact that IT IS A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES. My wife and I have been reading these stories since before they were published. An important thing to remember is that the author is a professor in a field where most students are lucky if they can actually do half of their job right. (alas, poor comm majors)At this particular university, the most common excuse a professor hears is "my computer lost it" in matters concerning research, homework, and any other thing that computers can possibly be blamed for. This book is nothing to be taken seriously. Read it in the same mindset that you would read HHGTTG, or Dirk Gently. If you try to be more serious than that, then the book will make absolutely no sense. (the name St. Vidicon of Cathode should have been a hint.) The four stars are so that I don't appear too biased

fine stand alone

The Catholic Church is poor with members leaving every day to join Reverend Sun's organization. In one last desperate measure, the pope goes on television to show why the church must survive. The equipment they use to televise the pontiff is old but Father Vidicon repairs the apparatus until he receives a shock and dies; thanks to his perseverance the show went on and the church is saved. People pray to Father Vidicon, who they want to make a saint, to help them when Finagles General Principle operates in their lives. Father Vidicon who is fighting the minions of the imp of the perverse is busy answering all prayers. His solution is to find an assistant who is smart and to help those who need some spiritual help. He contacts computer technician Tony Ricci threw his writings on the computer screen directing him where to go to help people in need. In return Father Vidicon gives advice to Tony about the woman to loves who he met when company's computers were showing the writings of Father Vidicon. Christopher Stasheff, the author of the famous warlock series, uses a contemporary setting but with the same humor in his latest work, SAINT VIDICON TO THE RESCUE. This novel is really a series of vignettes where Tony or Father Vidicon are helping people who are entangled with Finagles General Principle and Murphy's law. The spirit and the man communicate through dreams and a computer. When Tony works on solving a prayer he is a spirit that can become any size he chooses to get the job done. This is a stand alone book that will please fans of this talented author.