Showing results for "The Magicians" in Science Fiction

Quentin Coldwater has lost everything. He has been cast out of the secret magical land of Fillory and now, friendless and broke, he returns to where his story began: Brakebills Preparatory College of Magic. But Quentin's past soon catches up with him.... Meanwhile, Fillory's magical barriers are failing, and barbarians from the north have invaded. To save their beloved world from extinction, Eliot and Janet, High King and Queen of Fillory, must embark on a final, dangerous quest.

The London Borough of Hackney is run by the crime syndicate Bai Ze. One night an expensive horse carriage arrives at their headquarters. Behind the carriage is the leader of the Bai Ze, Mr.Quin, hanging at the end of a bloody rope. The journey here has stripped him of his clothes and shredded...

Belisarius is a quantum man, an engineered Homo quantus who fled the powerful insight of dangerously addictive quantum senses. He found a precarious balance as a con man, but when a client offers him untold wealth to move a squadron of warships across an enemy wormhole, he must embrace his birthright to even try. In fact, the job is so big that he'll need a crew built from all the new sub-branches of humanity. If he succeeds, he might trigger an interstellar war, but success might also point the way to the next step of Homo quantus evolution. 

Step into a world where mystery and transformation reign supreme. The title evokes a realm of illusion and change, where the boundaries between reality and the supernatural blur. This collection invites you to explore themes of power, identity, and the unknown, all through the lens of magic and the mystical. Each week, this podcast showcases a different complete audiobook, offering a fresh perspective on the magical and the mysterious. With a variety of narratives spanning diverse time periods and styles, listeners will find each episode a unique journey of discovery. Whether you're seeking ...

Three decades...Five Riftwars...One magnificent saga: Magician's End is the final book in New York Times bestselling author Raymond E. Feist's science fiction epic Riftwar Cycle. Thirty years ago, Feist's first novel, Magician, introduced us to an orphan boy named Pug, who rises from slavery to...

Ceony Twill arrives at the cottage of Magician Emery Thane with a broken heart. Having graduated at the top of her class from the Tagis Praff School for the Magically Inclined, Ceony is assigned an apprenticeship in paper magic despite her dreams of bespelling metal. And once she's bonded to paper, that will be her only magic... forever. Yet the spells Ceony learns under the strange yet kind Thane turn out to be more marvelous than she could have ever imagined.

Frank Chandler, a dignified, globe-trotting American, learned certain mystical secrets while studying under the wise men of the East. Those secrets gave him near-unlimited psychic powers, turning him into Chandu the Magician. In his global war on the powers of ancient evil, he is joined by the mysterious Egyptian princess Nadji; his sister, Dorothy Regent; and his niece and nephew, Betty and Bob.

A sweeping tale of revolution and wonder in a world not quite like our own, A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians is a genre-defying story of magic, war, and the struggle for freedom in the early modern world. It is the Age of Enlightenment -- of new and magical political movements, from the...

C'est le cœur brisé que Ceony Twill, 19 ans, débarque chez le magicien Emery Thane. Sortie major de sa promotion à l'école Tagis Praff, elle se voit contrainte d'embrasser la magie du papier, elle qui rêvait de travailler le métal. Or une fois qu'elle sera liée au papier, matériau qu'elle dédaigne, elle sait que c'est pour le restant de sa vie. Dès le début de son apprentissage chez l'excentrique mais si charmant Emery, Ceony découvre un monde merveilleux qu'elle ne soupçonnait pas : animer des créatures de papier, donner vie à des récits grâce aux images qui les illustrent, prédire l'avenir.

In 1878, two young stage magicians clash in the dark during the course of a fraudulent séance. From this moment on, their lives become webs of deceit and revelation as they vie to outwit and expose each other. In the course of pursuing each other's ruin, they will deploy all the deception their magician's craft can command. Their rivalry will take them to the peaks of their careers, but with terrible consequences.

‘Edinburgh Nights is essential reading for fans of urban fantasy’ – The British Fantasy Society One final adventure for Ropa Moyo – orphan, mischief-maker and failed magician. Secrets of the First School is the mystery-filled finale to T. L. Huchu’s enchanting Edinburgh Nights series...

A hilarious farce.When the king of the grim reapers' son needs help to take a ghost haunting his home, he asks his father to help remove it but was it a mistake?Good Quotes From The Haunting of the Necromancer"We are not fake anythings!" said Lance."I could debate that with you," said Blake."Where is the ghost?" Blake said changing the subject."Now I have a ghost and a grim reaper in my lounge room!" said Lance infuriated."Grand Reaper? What's that?" the ghost asked."Another name for a couch potato!" Lance hissed,"Dork why you shouting," said Junior walking in the room."Oh, he's no bother, he ...

A love story,Between a ghost reincarnated in a magician and a hybrid of Magician, and grey alien, life and death are all that stand between them. They love yet don't know who the other is, even if they are friends. They love yet can't see the other hiding in plain sight.Coming Soon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The War is LiveIn this Magician's story.A podcaster from another newspaper has a war over podcast views, with Blake and Sandy, the war becomes dangerous when the podcaster is pressed by his boss to get higher ratings, or they will lose their job. How far will this war go? Will anyone be hurt by this war? How will this war end?More Magician's stories Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A heatwave in July and a tube train is discovered buried in 20 inches of snow. A Saturday afternoon in Hyde Park and scores of people are instantly frozen to death where they stand while the sun beats down from the sky. Freak weather conditions in London, and the Doctor and UNIT are called in to find the cause. Meanwhile, a street magician who was witnessed at the scene of the tragedy entertains crowds in Covent Garden. As Jo Grant and Mike Yates disobey orders and investigate alone, they discover an enemy ....

Podcast of poems, songs, and short stories by author & poet Rachel Lawson, some dark, some light, some romanticHost's Websiteshttps://www.rachellawsonauthor.com/Podcast second home herehttps://www.rachellawsonauthor.com/podcast-1Contact Rachel Via her Discord page belowhttps://discord.gg/WX9DFj5u Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"Oh great, more paperwork!" moaned a man in a blue top hat and tux in a mask. He was known as Blue Midnight, a superhero. His son hit him on the back and laughed. "You love paperwork what are you worried about," said his son laughing."Get out of my hair boy," Blake snapped at his son Lance who was dress similarly in blue."You'd think you didn't love me," said his son sarcastically."Not now I'm on a case Enchanter," Blake then said accusingly "The Necromancer Murdered another person.""Oh, that is terrible! Did I know them?" Lance asked."You tell me! We can't id them. We are going to have to do ...

No one should die in the dreamscapeLancelot Alexander Jnr was at the crossroads of being awake and falling asleep as his partner in his stage magic act Dreams and Nightmares, Zac was about to put him into the zigzag man apparatus during an evening performance."Hey, sleepy head wakes up," said Zac sensing Lance was tired."I'm so tired," Lance said, "I'll try to stay awake.""I don't want to hurt you," said Zac."I don't want to be hurt either," said Lance climbing into the box.The moment he went into the box he fell asleep mentally.He awoke screaming when Zac inserted the first blade.It startled ...

Coroner Blake is interviewed on a tv show about murder, and how some people do it to get noticed, the host kills the co-host to get ratings for the show and blames killing on the Necromancer a good scapegoat. Except the Necromancer was at another killing. Lance the Necromancer and Blake try to find the killer. The killer is busy trying to get the Necromancer arrested. People watch the show because of the crime. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"Is anything wrong," Blake asked."Can you please take me to hell!" asked Max."take you to what?" Blake king of the grim reapers laughed."Blue Midnight and the Sun King this is exciting lets go fight crime!" A man in a yellow chicken suit with a mask said like they made his life."Ok, I'll race you there," said Blake seeing the chicken,"Can I join you!" the chicken enthused said.He wanted to be a hero, and chaos followed him. He was a sorcerer who chose not to use magic.the chicken was being beaten by an old lady he crossed the road with."Why did the chicken cross the road!" laughed Max."I ...