This note contains spoilers for the book.

Back when, Stasheff's earlier Warlock books were a bit of a cult item. Then he came back and wrote a lot more, and I mostly stopped following him after a while.

Still, his "Saint Vidicon of the Cathode" is quite an invention; a priest who, working (in an alternate universe, apparently) for a run-down Vatican TV station, substitutes his body for a failed resistor during a critical Papal broadcast.

This is a series of adventures of a software guy that St. Vidicon co-opts to help him. Reads like a bunch of short stories in framing sequences, in fact. They're fun.

However, there's a trying-to-develop romance, and both the protagonist, and St. Vidicon, behave rather idiotically about that.