title: Michael and the Magic Man
text: # Michael and the Magic Man
  
  Michael and the Magic Man is a novel by Kathleen M. Sidney published in 1980.
  
  ## Plot summary
  
  Michael and the Magic Man is a novel in which a group of psychics travel America in a van, defending the world from psychic alien invaders.
  
  ## Reception
  
  Greg Costikyan reviewed Michael and the Magic Man in Ares Magazine #3 and commented that "Sidney is a writer of considerable power; Michael and the Magic Man is as innovative as it is unusual."
  
  Spider Robinson reviewed Michael and the Magic Man for Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, and commented that "Good characterization, good sense of mood – Kathy is still feeling for her novel-voice, but my only real objection is that the hero is rather ineffectual for my taste. He's not an actor, he's a reactor, for most of the book. Still, this is a cut above most first novels."
  
  ## Reviews
  
  * The New York Review of Science Fiction
  * Kliatt Young Adult Paperback Book Guide
  