![]() ![]() This gave rise to ‘The Riftwar Saga’ series and the first book is called Magician: Apprentice. ![]() His first thoughts after graduation were to write ‘Magician’ the story about the young lad who later became a famous magician, and in 1982, two years after starting the novel, he finally found the time to finish it after being out of a job.įollowing the success of Magician, Raymond E. He graduated from the University of California with a bachelor’s degree in Communication Arts. Initially, Gonzales was his surname but after being adopted by Felix Elias Feist, he changed his surname to Feist. He was born in Los Angeles California in 1945 when the Second World War ended. Feist is an American author who mostly writes fantasy fiction. When the peace of the Kingdom is destroyed as mysterious invaders swarm the land, Pug and Tomas are swept up in a conflict that will change their lives forever.Raymond E. But as he stands alone and in shame in the middle of the great courtyard, Kulgan, the Duke’s court magician choses Pug. When a ceremony takes place in which Pug and his peers will be chosen for the different apprenticeships, Pug suffers the ultimate humiliation when he is the only one not chosen by any master. It tells the tale of orphan boy Pug, who spent his childhood dreaming of becoming a warrior like his friend Tomas, but lacks the physical strength and skills at arms. ![]() Not too dissimilar from the much loved Watersones back in the UK, Dymocks has an incredible array of books under every genre imaginable, and a bookseller’s top 100 which featured Raymond E Feist’s Magician – one of the last five books I had left to read.įirst published in 1982, Magician is the first book of the Riftwar Saga, set in the imagined world of Midkemia. However, when I stopped by recently to buy one of the final novels I have yet to read from the BBC Top 100 – they didn’t have any of the ones I needed in stock, and so I visited Dymocks – the city centre book shop down the road from where I work. Since moving to Sydney, I buy most of my books from Gertrude & Alice – a gorgeous bookstore by Bondi beach whose food menu is as appetising as its book selection. ![]()
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