Wally Smith, having died on Earth, finds himself reincarnated as a swordsman in another world and entrusted by the presiding goddess with a mission that has no appeal for him at all. Goddesses can be very persuasive. . . This series is still my most popular work. I often wonder if that is because the first version of it was written solely for my own amusement, before I ever considered trying to get it published. Perhaps the sense of just-having-fun stuck to it through all its many rewrites.