Magician

Revised Edition Riftwar Saga, #1

by Raymond E. Feist

Paperback, 681 pages

English language

Published Jan. 1, 1994 by HarperCollins Publishers.

ISBN:: 978-0-586-21783-2

Raymond E. Feist's classic fantasy epic, Magician, has enchanted readers for over twenty years. The revised edition was prepared to celebrate the tenth anniversary of its publication, and incorporates over 15,000 words of text omitted from previous editions.

At Crydee, a frontier outpost in the tranquil Kingdom of the Isles, an orphan boy, Pug, is apprenticed to a master magician – and the destinies of two worlds are changed forever.

Suddenly the peace of the Kingdom is destroyed as mysterious alien invaders swarm the land. Pug is swept up into the conflict but for him and his warrior friend, Tomas, an odyssey into the unknown has only just begun.

Tomas will inherit a legacy of savage power from an ancient civilization. Pug’s destiny is to lead him through a rift in the fabric of space and time to the mastery of the unimaginable powers of a strange …

At Crydee, a frontier outpost in the tranquil Kingdom of the Isles, an orphan boy, Pug, is apprenticed to a master magician – and the destinies of two worlds are changed forever.

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scmbradley@bookwyrm.social reviewed Magician by Raymond E. Feist

Suffers from being borrowed from by everyone since

4 stars

Magician is an straightforward fantasy epic. It suffers from being among the templates that all fantasy novels since are borrowing from. But it is pretty well written, the characters are likeable and reasonably well differentiated, and the story is engaging and pacy enough. (There are some parts that drag a little, but compared to some offerings in the genre, this does a good job of keeping things moving along).