I first read Magician when I was maybe about 12 or 13 and at the time the early books in the series (I think Prince of the Blood was the most recently published book at the time) were among my favourite books, particularly Magician itself and Servant of the Empire. I recommend reading these six books even if you never see any films or shows based upon them. Eventually the events in both books dovetail, and continuity is fine within this set of stories. These three books tell a separate story that happens concurrently with the three above, but set on the world of Kelawan rather than Midkemia. And for the time of their publishing, they were certainly ground-breaking with their focus on non-traditional fantasy settings and characters. The Empire Trilogy he wrote with Janny Wurts are by far the best work either of them ever did. Magician is quite excellent, and the two books to close it out on the world of Midkemia, Silverthorn and A Darkness at Sethanon, are also good work and entirely satisfying in their conclusions for the characters and their motivations. Feist's work, who started off so well, and then during and after his divorce just cranked them out for money and apparently without the benefit of a sober editor. So unlike WOT or ASoI&F there is resolution without waiting 30 years What is quite good is he divides the whole series into relatively self-contained trilogies/duologies anda quartet. The last book isnt too bad, but compared to its immediate predescessors, that's damning it with faint praise. In the early books we have engsging characters like Prince Arutha in the latter books the author cant even be bothered to use the same characters. The royal family of the main kingdom literally changes from book to book after the serpentwar quartet. In the penultinate novel due to a manuscript issue (part of a forst draft got mixed into the final edit) a xharacter is in two places at once. In one of the last books a dwarf's name changes midbook. Continuity fell off a cliff as did editing. The author was literally cranking them out for the money and had lost interest. The books set after the Serpentwar quartet ranged from mediocre to very poor. The 4th book fell off a cliff as did pretty much every following book, especially including those based on the video games set between the original three books and following duology. The 2nd book partly inspired Thr Lies of Locke Lamora. The first few books of the following quartet were quite good, some flaws but tried some new things. The Empire trilogy he co-weote eith Janny Wurtz is quite good, mostly intrigue and politics, and ahead of its time, though the last two books felt too long. The following duology (per publication order) was good too. The following two books were entertainijg but generic fantasy with evil antagonists. The first book(I consider Magician one novel) is good, was likely ahead of its time as a clash of cultures with no real antagonist. Johnstad also wrote such pics as 300, 300: Rise of an Empire and Act of Valor. I look forward to working with the talented crew at BCDF as much as they need and am excited at finally seeing Magician on the screen.” I am delighted to have finally met people with the understanding of the work and vision to match my own in bringing The Riftwar Saga to series television. I have said no repeatedly to deals simply because the ‘fit,’ was wrong.
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It is also one of the longest-running fantasy book series of all-time, with 32 novels and additional short stories.įeist said, “I’ve been talking to film and TV people about adapting my work since the publication of Magician in 1982. The Riftwar Cycle, a New York Times bestseller from Penguin Random House, has sold over 20 million copies and has been translated into 25 languages. Fiction Riot is also producing and will develop mobile content for the series starting early next year.
Claude Dal Farra, Brice Dal Farra, Brian Keady, and Feist are executive producing. Feist’s blockbuster fantasy book franchise The Riftwar Sagawith Atomic Blonde screenwriter Kurt Johnstad aboard to adapt the first novel Magician for television. EXCLUSIVE: BCDF Pictures has picked up the rights to Raymond E.