For the purpose of this review, I will be referring to it as Magician because it is one complete story.įantasy novels published around the 1980’s were viewed by publishers as needing to be a derivative of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings in some shape or form. In the US, the books are titled: Magician Apprentice and Magician Master, but in the UK, Europe, and Australia, the books are combined into one titled: Magician. Before I start, there may be some confusion as to the title depending on where you live.
The answer is a resounding yes and I hope I can show you the magic and wonder that Raymond E. I am sure many readers have heard of this story in one way or other and were wondering if the tale would translate well decades after first being published. It is hailed by many to be a classic and a masterpiece of fantastical literature and I believe this holds true even today. Two years later Magician was written and later published in 1982. After receiving his college degree in 1977, Feist started to have ideas for a story revolving around a boy who would one day become a magician. Feist was born in 1945 in Los Angeles California. 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. Tomas will inherit a legacy of savage power from an ancient civilization. Pug is swept up into the conflict but for him and his warrior friend, Tomas, an odyssey into the unknown has only just begun. Suddenly the peace of the Kingdom is destroyed as mysterious alien invaders swarm the land. 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.