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Magician: Apprentice (1982)

por Raymond E. Feist

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
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Great book! We discovered this author and series by accident and have read all his books to date. ( )
  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. ( )
  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. ( )
  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 :) ( )
  BooksForDinner | Sep 12, 2023 |
I did not read Feist when these were being published, though I would likely have been the ideal audience in the late 80s. Some folks say these have aged poorly and are just indicative of certain era of fantasy writing. I'm not so sure that's the case, I think they may never have been that great.
First things first, Magician: Apprentice is the first *half* of a book, split due to length. I'm going to combine the reviews for this and Magician: Master and put the review on both. But, going into the book not knowing that can lead to a very disjointed experience at the abrupt ending.
Magician is telling the story of Pug, an orphaned farm boy in a relatively idealic fantasy castle/village who through the beneficence of those around him experiences a pretty pleasant life. Up to eventually being taken in as the titular magician's apprentice despite a relative lack of talent. While Pug is clearly intended to be the focus of this bildungsroman, he's missing from vast swaths of both this and the subsequent book. Possibly for the best. His young friend, Tomas, on the path to becoming a warrior is our other main character, followed by an ensemble cast of the usual suspects in this type of fantasy (ranger stand ins, a princess or two, children of nobility having to take on various levels of responsibility) who truth be told get a lot more page time than our supposed main characters. Our main source of conflict is...an invading army from another world with a superior command of magic. Which has some distressingly stereotypical depictions of probably southeast asian cultures form the time.
So why the relatively low rating from someone who is otherwise a huge fan of fantasy? Besides some technical problems (real frequent shifts in pov and tense, seemingly at random and without purpose) and a whole lot of telling rather than showing, its just not great? Its too sterotypical of high fantasy, too simple, even within its own time, not just through the lens of the fantasy we get these days. A lot of characters are clearly thinly veiled caricatures of Tolkein characters, as are some of the plot points. We even have a very duex ex machina, two dimensional, wizard who feels like a bad Gandalf impersonator, an elf queen (and really elvish society) that seems to be a direct lift as well. There are some really unnecessary early teen love triangles involving a princess that feels pulled from any number of YA fantasy of the era. There are massive time skips throughout the book...as in years...that not only rob of us seeing the events that could cause the characters to change and grow, but seem to not result in any actual dynamic character growth or change. A lot of things happen that we're told about after the fact, and the characters (besides growing much more powerful) don't change in any fundamental way. Tomas is the only character who seems even mildly changed by the titanic events he passes through, and even in that case the changes are somewhat cosmetic and certainly not as deep as they should be.
Some of the issues can be explained by the fact that this is essentially a (less than great) novelization of Feist's D&D games from the time. Midkemia was their homebrewed campaign setting. I didn't realize that until after reading, but as soon as I learned that a lot of things from the cardboard characters to the lack of dynamism, to the massive power jumps after ever time skip, all started to make a lot more sense.
What can we find that feels more positive about these two books? I can see some very early shades of the sort of political intrigue we'd later seen so much more masterfully done by George RR Martin. I think that the world building if handled with more depth and focused more on showing rather than telling, *could* have been really interesting. And there may be a lot more of that in the subsequent books in the series that focus on less godlike, overpowered characters. Especially if it was based on a D&D campaign, there should be plenty of ambitious world building that *could* be done. I'll likely only read the next two (since I got the first four from a box at my aunt's house), and hopefully there will be more of that. While I realize that this is intended for adult fantasy readers, or maybe YA at the earliest, I think that if targeted at even younger readers this isn't necessarily a bad introduction to fantasy. Honestly, I can't see reading this past my pre-teen years and being into it, but I think for that late elementary age reader really into fantasy these would be perfect. The violence and sexuality are very tame, as is the language, and I think a lot of the structural issues wouldn't be as much of a problem. I do think if marketed in that way it would benefit from the two books being broken into maybe four smaller books, but hey, let a kid feel accomplished for reading such a big book.
So yeah, give them to a kid as an intro to better stuff, they can have fun later discovering similarities to other works. ( )
  jdavidhacker | Aug 9, 2023 |
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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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