Magician (The Riftwar Saga #1-2) 
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.
Reviews
'Epic scope… fast moving action…vivid imagination'
WASHINGTON POST
'tons of intrigue and action'
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Sometimes a book comes along at just the right time.The year after high school I was working a dead-end job as a receptionist for a company that ground lenses for prescription glasses. I was glad to see the back of everyone from high school: I'd been awkward and gawky and utterly overlooked, and the word frenemy had not yet been coined, or I would have understood why the one girl I thought was on my team consistently ran me down to others. But I was very aware that everyone else had gone off to
Peace and prosperity flourish in the strong Kingdom of the Isles on the world of Midkemia. Upon the death of King Rodric the Third, his son Rodric the Fourth was elected king by the Congress of Lords after Prince Erland of Krondor and Duke Borric of Crydee, both prominent and powerful noblemen of the royal line, pulled out of the succession in favour of their nephew, thus solidifying his claim on the throne. But the young king is set upon a dark path towards the depths of madness, and the

I was prepared for what I assumed was a very white male 80s classical fantasy. I was SO right to be. While I really did love how cool it was: Dragons, firedrakes, elves, trolls basically every creature you could ask for AND an alien race invading and starting a goddamn war oh and of course magic and a bunch of royal scheming and deaths I just found the characters boring. If the story was released TODAY it would be a flop because its lacking diversity in every aspect.All the characters had okay
Good story, but filled with fantasy cliches. Feist wrote this back in the early 80's so he should know better - Tolkien, Norton, Moorcock and others tread this ground before.Admittedly though, it is a hell of a pageturner even though the characters are badly drawn and the narrative is wacky as it speeds through years of development in a single paragraph. The love and romance is painful to read, skip over them.Considering that Feist stumbled upon a unique and admirable new fantasy conceit in
I first read this book as a teenager, sometime around 1990. At the time my friends and I considered Magician to be the pinnacle of the Fantasy genre, and I still see it discussed with the same reverence today.A few years back I reread Magician with very high expectations, but found it a fairly bland read. Neither the story or its characters gripped me, and the narrative structure seemed somewhat clumsy.I finished reading Magician, but didn't rush out to buy the other books in the Riftwar saga.At
An absolute joy to read. It may seem too generic, orphan boy makes good, but written in 1982, this was ahead of its time. Brilliant story of magic, treachery to steal the thrones, dwarves, elves, dragons, portals to a strange warlike people similar to feudal Japan, battles, love and heartbreaking loss.....the list could go on. Sweeping nine year story that is just a brilliant tale and totally captivating. Could not have enjoyed this more.
Raymond E. Feist
Paperback | Pages: 681 pages Rating: 4.32 | 56922 Users | 1436 Reviews

Specify Containing Books Magician (The Riftwar Saga #1-2)
| Title | : | Magician (The Riftwar Saga #1-2) |
| Author | : | Raymond E. Feist |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Revised edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 681 pages |
| Published | : | 2009 by HarperCollins (first published October 1st 1982) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Fiction. Epic Fantasy |
Description In Pursuance Of Books Magician (The Riftwar Saga #1-2)
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 new magic.
Reviews
'Epic scope… fast moving action…vivid imagination'
WASHINGTON POST
'tons of intrigue and action'
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Describe Books In Favor Of Magician (The Riftwar Saga #1-2)
| Original Title: | Magician |
| ISBN: | 0586217835 (ISBN13: 9780586217832) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.harpercollins.co.uk/Titles/41113/magician-raymond-e-feist-9780586217832 |
| Series: | The Riftwar Saga #1-2 |
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Ratings: 4.32 From 56922 Users | 1436 ReviewsCriticize Containing Books Magician (The Riftwar Saga #1-2)
Basically everything you could want in a fantasy epic.Sometimes a book comes along at just the right time.The year after high school I was working a dead-end job as a receptionist for a company that ground lenses for prescription glasses. I was glad to see the back of everyone from high school: I'd been awkward and gawky and utterly overlooked, and the word frenemy had not yet been coined, or I would have understood why the one girl I thought was on my team consistently ran me down to others. But I was very aware that everyone else had gone off to
Peace and prosperity flourish in the strong Kingdom of the Isles on the world of Midkemia. Upon the death of King Rodric the Third, his son Rodric the Fourth was elected king by the Congress of Lords after Prince Erland of Krondor and Duke Borric of Crydee, both prominent and powerful noblemen of the royal line, pulled out of the succession in favour of their nephew, thus solidifying his claim on the throne. But the young king is set upon a dark path towards the depths of madness, and the

I was prepared for what I assumed was a very white male 80s classical fantasy. I was SO right to be. While I really did love how cool it was: Dragons, firedrakes, elves, trolls basically every creature you could ask for AND an alien race invading and starting a goddamn war oh and of course magic and a bunch of royal scheming and deaths I just found the characters boring. If the story was released TODAY it would be a flop because its lacking diversity in every aspect.All the characters had okay
Good story, but filled with fantasy cliches. Feist wrote this back in the early 80's so he should know better - Tolkien, Norton, Moorcock and others tread this ground before.Admittedly though, it is a hell of a pageturner even though the characters are badly drawn and the narrative is wacky as it speeds through years of development in a single paragraph. The love and romance is painful to read, skip over them.Considering that Feist stumbled upon a unique and admirable new fantasy conceit in
I first read this book as a teenager, sometime around 1990. At the time my friends and I considered Magician to be the pinnacle of the Fantasy genre, and I still see it discussed with the same reverence today.A few years back I reread Magician with very high expectations, but found it a fairly bland read. Neither the story or its characters gripped me, and the narrative structure seemed somewhat clumsy.I finished reading Magician, but didn't rush out to buy the other books in the Riftwar saga.At
An absolute joy to read. It may seem too generic, orphan boy makes good, but written in 1982, this was ahead of its time. Brilliant story of magic, treachery to steal the thrones, dwarves, elves, dragons, portals to a strange warlike people similar to feudal Japan, battles, love and heartbreaking loss.....the list could go on. Sweeping nine year story that is just a brilliant tale and totally captivating. Could not have enjoyed this more.


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