The New York Times bestselling novel about a young man practicing
magic in the real world, now an original series on SYFY
"The Magicians is to Harry Potter as a shot of Irish whiskey is to a
glass of weak tea. . . . Hogwarts was never like this."
--George R.R. Martin
"Sad, hilarious, beautiful, and essential to anyone who cares about
modern fantasy."
--Joe Hill
"A very knowing and wonderful take on the wizard school genre."
--John Green
"The Magicians may just be the most subversive, gripping and
enchanting fantasy novel I've read this century."
--Cory Doctorow
"This gripping novel draws on the conventions of contemporary and
classic fantasy novels in order to upend them . . . an unexpectedly
moving coming-of-age story."
--The New Yorker
"The best urban fantasy in years."
--A.V. Club
Quentin Coldwater is brilliant but miserable. A high school math genius,
he's secretly fascinated with a series of children's fantasy novels set
in a magical land called Fillory, and real life is disappointing by
comparison. When Quentin is unexpectedly admitted to an elite, secret
college of magic, it looks like his wildest dreams have come true. But
his newfound powers lead him down a rabbit hole of hedonism and
disillusionment, and ultimately to the dark secret behind the story of
Fillory. The land of his childhood fantasies turns out to be much darker
and more dangerous than he ever could have imagined. . . .
The prequel to the New York Times bestselling book The Magician King
and the #1 bestseller The Magician's Land, The Magicians is one of
the most daring and inventive works of literary fantasy in years. No one
who has escaped into the worlds of Narnia and Harry Potter should miss
this breathtaking return to the landscape of the imagination.
