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20th Anniversay edition of Raymond Feist’s epic heroic fantasy
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 new magic.
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Like a venerable patriarch, Magician stands at the head of a great tribe of fantasy writing. When Raymond Feist's enormous novel was published, critics called it "the best new fantasy concept in years", and Feist has refined and explored that concept over a dozen novels. His "concept" was to bring together two (and later, more) whole, intricately realised fantasy worlds. Midkemia is a Tolkienian realm, a European- Medieval series of kingdoms in which magic is prominent, and where men share the earth with dwarves and elves. Feist's genius was inventing another sword and sorcercy realm based more closely on eastern models, the Empire of Tsuranuanni, as vast as Ancient China, as formalised and devoted to the arts of war as a samurai Japan. A magical rift in time-space brings these two worlds clashing together, and the young boy Pug and his soldier friend Tomas are thrown into the ensuing maelstrom of invasion and epic battle, before embarking on a more fundamental magical journey towards the very roots of evil itself. Feist's two sequels to Magician, Silverthorn and A Darkness at Sethanon complete the richly conceived Riftwar Saga, and Feist has gone on to chronicle other aspects of his invented worlds. More recently he has returned to the world of Medkemia, and to his hero Pug, with the Serpentwar saga, beginning with Shadow of a Dark Queen and continuing with Rise of a Merchant Prince, Rage of a Demon King and Shards of a Broken Crown. Heroic Fantasy is a crowded-enough field, but Feist stands out in it for his sheer inventive power, the scope and range of his narratives, the diversity of his characters and his thundering battle sequences. Start reading here, and you may find yourself unable to stop until you have followed the saga right up to date. --Adam Roberts
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‘Totally gripping’ WASHINGTON POST
‘Epic scope...fast-moving action...vivid imagination’ WASHINGTON POST
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- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0007134118
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Book Description Signed twice! Anniversary edition. Second printing: 35798642 . First published in 1983. This is the 20th anniversary edition published by Voyager 2002. [18pp.] /pp.681 . Maroon leatherette covers with bright gilt image to front cover, and similar image and gilt titles to spine. Dink to front board and spine, otherwise clean binding. Grey endpapers. Yellow silk marker ribbon. Author's signature to half title. Also; dedication to title page: "To Andrew! Raymond E. Feist". Preliminary leaves include: Acknowledgments; Acknowledgement To The Revised Edition; Foreword To The Revised Edition; Foreword To The 20th Anniversary Edition"; plus double-page map of Midkemia. Clean text throughout. VG. ** "Magician is a fantasy novel by American writer Raymond E. Feist. It is the first book of the Riftwar Saga and of the wider Riftwar Cycle. Magician was originally published in 1982. The book is set in a Dungeons & Dragons-style fantasy world called Midkemia, originally invented by Feist and his friends during college. The story follows the early life of friends Pug and Tomas as their world is overtaken by war against alien invaders who appear via portals. In 1992, after the author, and series, fame had grown it was re-published in an edition titled "The Author's Preferred Edition" (or "revised edition" in some markets) text restored from the original edit. Magician is viewed as a classic Fantasy novel which focuses more on the broad politics of nations rather than individual stories." - See Wikipedia. Seller Inventory # 49694
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Book Description , 681 pages, acknowledgment to revised edition, dedicated to the author's father Felix E. Feist Second Edition thus , two very small marks to boards, clean pages, very good condition , dark red leather binding, gilt lettering and decoration, patterened endpapers , 24cm x 16cm Hardback SIGNED by the author ISBN: 7134118. Seller Inventory # 75029
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