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The Magicians won the 2010 Alex Award, given to ten adult books that are appealing to young adults, and the 2011 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. [ 3 ] In August 2011, The Magician King , the sequel to The Magicians , was published, which returns readers to the magical land of Fillory, where Quentin and his friends are now kings and ...
[10] The New York Times review said the book "could crudely be labeled a Harry Potter for adults", injecting "mature themes" into fantasy literature. [11] The Magicians won the 2010 Alex Award, given to ten adult books that are appealing to young adults, and its author won the 2011 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. [12]
Nita steals the dark Book, and uses it to locate the bright Book in the tunnels under City Hall. In the tunnels, they discover the Book is guarded by the Eldest of the fireworms. The Eldest, a dragon, lies on a vast hoard of varied stolen items ranging from the valuable to the trivial. The Wizards bargain with the Eldest.
The Amulet of Samarkand is a young adult novel of alternate history, fantasy and magic. [1] It is the first book in the Bartimaeus Sequence written by English author Jonathan Stroud . The first edition (paperback) was published in September 2003 by Doubleday in the United Kingdom.
Magician is a fantasy novel by American writer Raymond E. Feist. It is the first book of the Riftwar Saga and of the wider Riftwar Cycle. Magician was originally published in 1982. The book is set in a Dungeons & Dragons–style fantasy world called Midkemia, originally invented by Feist and his friends during college. The story follows the ...
This design for an amulet comes from the Black Pullet grimoire.. A grimoire (/ ɡ r ɪ m ˈ w ɑːr /) (also known as a book of spells, magic book, or a spellbook) [citation needed] is a textbook of magic, typically including instructions on how to create magical objects like talismans and amulets, how to perform magical spells, charms, and divination, and how to summon or invoke supernatural ...
The Books of Magic began life when DC Comics decided to highlight some of their mystical characters across the range. They initially approached writer J. M. DeMatteis to script a prose book with illustrations from Jon J Muth, Kent Williams, Dave McKean and others, but when it reached the stage of confirming the artists' involvement, the suggested artists all declined to be involved.
Walter Gibson's Big Book of Magic for All Ages; Magic With Science (1975) Mastering Magic: 100 Secrets of the Great Magicians; Junior magic: Easy-to-learn tricks or magic made simple; The Complete Illustrated Book of Close-Up Magic: Professional Techniques Fully Revealed by a Master Magician (1980) Complete Illustrated Book of Card Magic (1969)