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Magician
Riftware Sage Book 1
Raymond E. Feist
Foreword To The Revised Edition
It
is with some hesitation and a great deal of trepidation that an
author approaches the task of revising an earlier edition of fiction.
This is especially true if the book was his first effort, judged
successful by most standards, and continuously in print for a decade.
Magician was all this, and more.
In late 1977 I decided to try my hand at writing, part-time, while I
was an employee of the University of California, San Diego. It is now
some fifteen years later, and I have been a full-time writer for the
last fourteen years, successful in this craft beyond my wildest
dreams. Magician, the first novel in what became known as. The
Riftwar Saga, was a book that quickly took on a life of its own.
I hesitate to admit this publicly, but the truth is that part of the
success of the book was my ignorance of what makes a commercially
successful novel. My willingness to plunge blindly forward into a
tale spanning two dissimilar worlds, covering twelve years in the
lives of several major and dozens of minor characters, breaking
numerous rules of plotting along the way, seemed to find kindred
souls among readers the world over. After a decade in print, my best
judgment is that the appeal of the book is based upon its being what
was known once as a “ripping yarn.” I had little ambition
beyond spinning a good story, one that satisfied my sense of wonder,
adventure, and whimsy. It turned out that several million
readers—many of whom read translations in languages I can’t
even begin to comprehend—found it one that satisfied their
tastes for such a yarn as well.
But insofar as it was a first effort,
some pressures of the marketplace did manifest themselves during the
creation of the final book. Magician is by anyone’s measure a
large book. When the penultimate manuscript version sat upon my
editor’s desk, I was informed that some fifty thousand words
would have to be cut. And cut I did. Mostly line by line, but a few
scenes were either truncated or excised.
While I could live out my life with the
original manuscript as published being the only edition ever read, I
have always felt that some of the material cut added a certain
resonance, a counterpoint if you will, to key elements of the tale.
The relationships between characters, the additional details of an
alien world, the minor moments of reflection and mirth that act to
balance the more frenetic activity of conflict and adventure, all
the ............

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