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Magician’s End: It’s HERE!

THE FINAL BOOK IS NOW AVAILABLE! The end is, indeed, finally here.

We know you are devouring your ebook, or waiting with bated breath as soon as you get your print copy. In a spare moment, do check out some of the media that Raymond E. Feist has been doing. He spills on what’s next and what the end of the Chaoswar Saga means! Here’s an excerpt from a recent Q&A on TheExaminer.com:

Given the current world climate, how do you feel that fantasy/magic can empower readers? What are some of the lessons that you hope readers may carry from your fiction into their everyday lives?

Any good story call galvanize a person, make him/her thing about things a different way, reassess their own motives and needs, but that’s never my intent. That’s an unintended consequence of me just trying to entertain, to write what we used to call “ripping yarns.” If someone gains a personal insight into something important that’s fine, but that was never my intent.

After endings come new beginnings. So…what can readers expect next?

Next? More fantasy, in a new world with new rules. The series is The War of Five Crowns and the first book is King of Ashes. Then a more contemporary fantasy, here on Earth, called Elder Gods. After that, the possibilities are endless.

The San Diego Union Tribune also did a large feature on Feist and his legacy:

In 1971, at the age of 26, he returned to school. Living in East County with his mother, Barbara Feist, he completed a year at Grossmont College, then transferred to UC San Diego. One day on campus, the communications major saw several students playing a game with polyhedron dice. He stopped, and his destiny was sealed.

Ray joined this group’s regular sessions of “Dungeons & Dragons,” an intricate role-playing game. His new friends had created a planet for their adventures: Midkemia. They also introduced aliens that invaded Midkemia, infiltrating via a tear in the fabric of space and time, the Rift — elements that would become the backdrop to Feist’s 29-book cycle.

(more here)

Are you sad the trilogy has ended? Let us know your thoughts! 

In Southern California? Feist’s doing a big blowout event for the end of the series at Mysterious Galaxy  on May 17th and you are invited! Be sure to come in costume!

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Raymond Feist visits England and Scotland

This week, Raymond Feist has been in England and Scotland to talk about the final book in the Riftwar Cycle, Magician’s End. So far he’s spoken to packed out audiences and had signing queues extending back through the entire store in Waterstones Deansgate and outside the store at Waterstones Milton Keynes! Here are a few photos of the amazing queue at Milton Keynes and the fantastic signing at Forbidden Planet on Monday.

John Bunting

John Bunting

John Bunting

John Bunting

John Bunting

Raymond is still here for a few more days, so if you would like to meet him and get your book signed, the full list of events can be found here.

Forbidden Planet also have a limited amount of signed stock, so if you want to get a signed copy but aren’t able to get to a signing, you can get one here.

Bottom five photos copyright John Bunting

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Magician’s End: The End of an Era

Magician's End

It is, quite literally, the end of an era. Raymond E. Feist’s thrilling epic fantasy opener – MAGICIAN – introduced to us the engaging character of Pug, who starts life as an orphaned kitchen-boy only to be apprenticed to a magician, captured as a slave and taken as a prisoner through a rift between worlds, ending up as a fully-fledged magician himself.

That was 31 years and 29 bestselling books ago: even before I started work as a publisher. I was already well aware of the phenomenon that MAGICIAN had been before I joined HarperCollins in 1991. Coming from a small independent publisher (George Allen & Unwin) I wasn’t used to sales in the hundreds of thousands (except, of course for the Master himself, JRR Tolkien). Working on the sf and fantasy list at HarperCollins was quite daunting: for alongside Ray Feist there also sat Stephen Donaldson, David Eddings, Isaac Asimov and Arthur C Clarke, all titans of the genre.

I have to admit to being quite scared at the prospect of meeting Ray for the first time, at the WorldCon in San Francisco in 1993. Everyone had told me tales about this leviathan of an author. He was a global megastar, selling millions of copies worldwide. He was used to a certain level of pampering from his publishers; he liked a good steak and was a connoisseur of fine red wine, my bosses told me, packing me off to meet him. Nervously, I asked the convention hotel to recommend a good steakhouse. They conferred: not easy apparently, since we were in the business district and all the restaurants were shut for the Labour Day weekend. They gave me a contact number and I booked a table, confident all would go swimmingly. I met Ray at the restaurant. Well, I say restaurant. More of a burger joint, actually. It did have tables… but that was about the height of its sophistication. It was, shall we say, no River House. I asked for a wine list. They laughed in my face. The food was terrible. I wanted to die. But Ray was a total gentleman throughout the entire excruciating experience, determined to put me at my ease, and from that day to this we have gone from strength to strength as author and publisher. And we’ve more than made up for that lapse in San Francisco with some mighty fine meals and wine in the intervening years.

But now we really have something huge to celebrate when Ray visits the UK this month. For MAGICIAN’S END – the 30th book in the Riftwar Cycle – marks the epic conclusion to this phenomenal series. And a truly worthy final volume it is, too.

When he delivered the huge manuscript last year I stayed up till 1am to finish reading it, with tears running down my face. Through the past three decades I have watched the ebb and flow of gods and dark elves, of kings and queens, knights and squires; spies and swordsmen, dragons and the Dread. War, love, magic, heroism, treachery and rifts between worlds: it’s made for a gloriously epic combination all these years.

MAGICIAN’S END brings together all the characters fantasy fans have loved all their adult lives, and which new readers are discovering with a sense of awe and delight every day, and delivers a truly cataclysmic, yet inspiring, ending for them. As a reader and a fan, I feel bereft: but as a publisher…. What a marvellous event it is going to be for us all, publishing this extraordinary final volume. I do hope you will turn out and help us to make the occasion a really special time and help us to celebrate in style with our brilliant and charming author.

Jane Johnson, HarperVoyager UK Publishing Director

Magician’s End is published on 6th May 2013 in the UK. Pre-order it now in hardback or in eBook.

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Exclusive! Chapter One of Raymond Feist’s MAGICIAN’S END

The final book in Raymond Feist’s 30 year saga! Pug, now the greatest magician of all time, must risk everything he has fought for and everything he cherishes in the hope of destroying an evil enemy once and for all. But to achieve peace and save untold millions of lives, he will have to pay the ultimate price. Read first chapter here! Full book is out May 14th, but we’ll be posting more sneak peeks before then…

Chapter 1 of Raymond Feist's Magician's End by HarperVoyagerBooks

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Raymond E. Feist and George R.R. Martin coming to Supanova Australia this year!

Well, it’s official folks! 2013 is shaping up to be Voyager Australia’s biggest event year EVER. Not only is Raymond E. Feist’s generation-spanning saga of Pug the Magician coming full cycle this year, but he will be touring Australia in June, including 2 big Supanovas in Sydney and Perth! But wait, there’s more! Everyone’s favourite Greek fisherman’s cap wearing author of A Song of Ice and Fire, and probably the biggest fantasy author in the world right now, George R.R. Martin will be coming to Supanova in November as well!

Here’s Supanova’s official statement yesterday: “And in another coup for fans of literature, our triple play of authors is complete with our June star just outing himself today as well. We have Tad Williams in April, George R.R. Martin in November, and now it gives us the pleasure of allowing him to out himself, the imperious chronicler of one of the world’s favourite fantasy-lands, The Magician’s, Raymond E. Feist! In an additional supa-bonus, not only can Supanova fans catch him at our expos in Sydney and Perth, but fans in Brisbane, Adelaide and Melbourne will also have their chance to see him (details to be confirmed). Its going to be epic!”

AND Raymond E Feist’s post on his Facebook page:

“See more Early tour info: OK, this is what I know this weekend.  I’ll be passing along more info when I get it. Don’t ask if I am coming to your city because I don’t know.  Don’t ask if there’s a chance, because I don’t know. In March, I will be in Brussels Belgium at the Fantasy Festival called Trolls et Légendes on the 29th through the 31st.  I will be in Paris on the 1st of April, but I do not know …if we’re doing public appearances of media only. In the US I will be at Mysterious Galaxy in San Diego on the 17th of May.  Other US cities will be Houston, TX: Murder by the Book on the 21st, and University Bookstore at UW in Seattle on the 23rd.  We may be adding two more cities.  Information as followed.  I will also be attending the San Diego Comic in July, specific day and time TBA. I will be in the UK/Ireland (?) beginning May 4th and leaving May 12th.  Cities, venues, and times to be announced.  London, obviously, Manchester and Birmingham (likely) others could be anywhere. Lastly, I will be doing two Supernova Expos in Australia, Sydney and Perth, as well as other cities in Australia and New Zealand.   I’ll be in New Zealand on the 19th and 20th of June.  I’ll be at Sydney Supernova on the 22nd and 23rd, then to Brisbane on the 24th, Melbourne on the 25 or 26th, Adelaide on the 28 (TBC), then on to Perth for Supernova on the 29 and 30th. That’s what I have so far. When I get more information I’ll post it.”

Did we say we were excited??

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PW’s SF/F Top 10 includes Cargill, Feist, and Gaiman!

The Publishers Weekly Spring Announcement issue is out, and we are thrilled that 3 Harper Voyager/William Morrow titles have been picked

for the top 10 in SF/F!

 C. Robert Cargill, DREAMS AND SHADOWS

Raymond E. Feist, MAGICIAN’S END

Neil Gaiman, THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE

The full list is here.