Magician: Apprentice (original 1982; edition 1994)

by Raymond Feist (Author)

Series: The Riftwar Saga (1.1), The Riftwar Cycle, Alternative Reading Order (Riftwar Saga, Book 1, Part 1), The Riftwar Cycle, Publication Order (The Riftwar Saga, Book 1, Part 1), The Riftwar Cycle, Chronological Order (1a)

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Fantasy. Fiction. Thriller. HTML:A worthy pupil . . . A dangerous quest To the forest on the shore of the Kingdom of the Isles, the orphan Pug came to study with the master magician Kulgan. But though his courage won him a place at court and the heart of a lovely Princess, he was ill at ease with the normal ways of wizardry. Yet Pug's strange sort of magic would one day change forever the fates of two worlds. For dark beings from another world had opened a rift in the fabric of spacetime to being again the age-old battle between the forces of Order and Chaos. Praise for Magician: Apprentice �??Totally gripping . . . A fantasy of epic scope, fast-moving action and vivid imagination.�?��??The Washington Post Book World �??Most exciting . . . A very worthy and absorbing addition to the fantasy field.�?��??Andre Norton �??The best new fantasty in years . . . has a chance of putting its aughor firmly on the trone next to Tolkien�??and keeping him there.�?��??The*… (more)*

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Title:	Magician: Apprentice
Authors:	Raymond Feist (Author)
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Magician: Apprentice by Raymond E. Feist (1982)

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I might have liked this book more if I'd read it twenty years ago. It just felt too YA and none of the characters or action seemed to matter to me. (

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HellCold | May 13, 2024 |

Great book! We discovered this author and series by accident and have read all his books to date. (

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LuLibro | Jan 22, 2024 |

Honestly pretty good, the writing is really solid. I usually don’t like it when a book jumps around to different characters too much, but I didn’t mind while reading this. There’s definitely a slow power ramp, but it’s done well. Overall it’s a solid book so I gave it a solid rating, nothing super exceptional though. (

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Radar12378 | Nov 30, 2023 |

An enjoyable creation of a fantastical world. Character development is fun with personality found in all principal characters. The story of a world being invaded by aliens - apparently being transported through something that I think of as a wormhole (whatever that is) and the author refers to as a rift in the galaxy. It is about a bronze or Iron Age culture being invaded by a culture that apparently lacks access to metals. While there s no electronic communication they have some sort of magic. The apprentice magician Pug accidentally uses it to subdue a group of trolls.
A lot of time is spent on the battle between the humans and aliens. The book ends with a cliff hanger with Pug in absencia with the suggestion he is about to reappear. (

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waldhaus1 | Nov 12, 2023 |

Doing a complete re-read of the Midkemia books on audio. Be forewarned: I will be giving all these books 5 stars :) (

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The Riftwar Cycle, Alternative Reading Order (Riftwar Saga, Book 1, Part 1)

The Riftwar Cycle, Chronological Order (1a)

The Riftwar Cycle, Publication Order (The Riftwar Saga, Book 1, Part 1)

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Canonical title

Magician: Apprentice

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Alternative titles

Pug und Tomas

Original publication date

1982-11

2006-04

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Midkemia

Crydee

Krondor, Kingdom of the Isles, Midkemia

Sorcerer's Isle

Rillanon

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Epigraph

A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts. – Longfellow, My Lost Youth

Dedication

This book is dedicated to the memory of my father, Felix E. Feist, in all ways, a magician.

First words

The storm had broken.

Quotations

This worrying about the future is a dry sort of work. I think it would be benefited by a mug of strong ale.

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This is the original novel. Please do not combine with any volume of the graphic novel adaptations.

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Fantasy. Fiction. Thriller. HTML:A worthy pupil . . . A dangerous quest
To the forest on the shore of the Kingdom of the Isles, the orphan Pug came to study with the master magician Kulgan. But though his courage won him a place at court and the heart of a lovely Princess, he was ill at ease with the normal ways of wizardry.
Yet Pug's strange sort of magic would one day change forever the fates of two worlds. For dark beings from another world had opened a rift in the fabric of spacetime to being again the age-old battle between the forces of Order and Chaos.
Praise for Magician: Apprentice
�??Totally gripping . . . A fantasy of epic scope, fast-moving action and vivid imagination.�?��??The Washington Post Book World
�??Most exciting . . . A very worthy and absorbing addition to the fantasy field.�?��??Andre Norton

�??The best new fantasty in years . . . has a chance of putting its aughor firmly on the trone next to Tolkien�??and keeping him there.�?��??The

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