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Raymond E. Feist

Raymond Elias Feist at Salon du livre 2008 (Paris, France)
Born December 1945
Los Angeles, California
Occupation Novelist
Nationality American
Writing period 1982 - present
Genres Fantasy
Notable work(s) Magician
Relative(s) Felix E. Feist
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Raymond Elias Feist (born 1945, Los Angeles, California) is an American author who primarily writes fantasy fiction. He is best know for The Riftwar Cycle series of novels and short stories.

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[edit] Biography

Raymond E. Feist was born in 1945 in Los Angeles, and was raised in Southern California. He was born with the surname Gonzales, but was subsquently adopted by Felix E. Feist.[citation needed]

He graduated with a B.A. in Communication Arts with Honors in 1977 from the University of California at San Diego. During that year Feist had some ideas for a novel about a boy who would be a magician; he wrote the novel two years later, and it was published in 1982 by Doubleday.[citation needed]

Feist currently lives in San Diego with his children, where he collects fine wine, DVDs, and books on a variety of topics of personal interest: wine, biographies, history, and, especially, the history of American Professional Football.[citation needed]

[edit] Works

[edit] The Riftwar Cycle

Main article: The Riftwar Cycle

The overwhelming majority of Feist's works are part of the Riftwar Cycle, a fictional universe featuring the worlds of Midkemia and Kelewan. Magicians and other creatures are able to create "rifts" through dimensionless space that can connect planets orbiting around different suns. The novels and short stories of The Riftwar Cycle record the lives and wars of the people on the various worlds.

Midkemia was originally created as an alternative to the Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) role-playing game. When Feist studied at the University of California, San Diego, he and his friends created a new role-playing game based on the world of Midkemia.[citation needed] They called themselves the Thursday Nighters, because they played the Midkemia role-playing game every Thursday evening. After some time, when the group changed and began meeting on Fridays, they became known as the Friday Nighters.[citation needed] The original group have since formed a company called Midkemia Press, which has continued publishing campaigns set in Midkemia.[citation needed]

[edit] Other works

Feist has published one non-Riftwar novel, Faerie Tale, an urban fantasy set in Hollywood. He has also published several short stories in various anthologies.

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] The Riftwar Cycle

[edit] The Riftwar Saga

Also formerly published under the title Pug and Tomas and also published in two parts in 1992 the United States:
  1. Magician: Apprentice
  2. Magician: Master

[edit] The Empire Trilogy

[edit] Legends of the Riftwar

[edit] The Riftwar Legacy

[edit] Krondor's Sons

[edit] The Serpentwar Saga

  • Shadow of a Dark Queen (1994)
  • Rise of a Merchant Prince (1995)
  • Rage of a Demon King (1997)
  • Shards of a Broken Crown (1998)

[edit] Conclave of the Shadows

  • Talon of the Silver Hawk (2003)
  • King of Foxes (2004)
  • Exile's Return (2005)

[edit] Darkwar Saga

[edit] Short stories

[edit] Other works

[edit] Novels

[edit] Short stories

  • Profit and the Grey Assassin (1982) in Fantasy Book
  • Geroldos Incredible Trick (1997) in A Magic Lovers Treasury of the Fantastic
  • One to Go (2002) in Thieves World: Turning Points
  • Watchfire (2004) in Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy (Coauthored by Janny Wurts)

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