Lyndon Mauriece Hardy is an American physicist, fantasy author, and business owner.

Biography

Hardy was born April 16, 1941 in Los Angeles, the son of Leonard and Zell (Smith) Hardy. He attended the

California Institute of Technology The California Institute of Technology (branded as Caltech) is a private research university in Pasadena, California, United States. The university is responsible for many modern scientific advancements and is among a small group of institutes ...

as an undergraduate and the

University of California Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after the Anglo-Irish philosopher George Berkeley ...

for his Ph.D. In 1961, Hardy masterminded the

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, in which Caltech students rearranged the cards used by Washington to spell out words during halftime. In his college years, he became fascinated with fantasy literature. In addition to being a fantasy author, he worked for 30 years at the aerospace company TRW, and started a computer consulting company named Alodar Systems Inc. that, among other things, helped develop intelligence tools for medical research and enterprise resource planning software for small businesses. He is married and has two daughters. Hardy is a member of the

Science Fiction Writers of America The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, doing business as Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association and commonly known as SFWA ( or ) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization of professional science fiction and fantasy writers. Whi ...

. His primary work of fiction is the Magic by the Numbers series, published 1980–1988 and 2017–2023.

Bibliography

Magic by the Numbers

# '' Master of the Five Magics'' (1980) # ''Secret of the Sixth Magic'' (1984) # ''Riddle of the Seven Realms'' (1988) # ''The Archimage's Fourth Daughter'' (2017) # ''Magic Times Three'' (2020) # ''Double Magic'' (2020) # ''One Last Heist'' (2023)

References

External links

Lyndon Hardy's website

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