The original group have since formed a company called Midkemia Press, which has continued publishing campaigns set in Midkemia.įeist acknowledges that the Tekumel setting from M. After some time, when the group changed and began meeting on Fridays, they became known as the Friday Nighters. They called themselves the Thursday Nighters, because they played the Midkemia role-playing game every Thursday evening. When Feist studied at the University of California, San Diego, he and his friends created a new role-playing game based on their own original world of Midkemia. Midkemia was originally created as an alternative to the Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) role-playing game. The novels and short stories of The Riftwar Universe record the adventures of various people on these worlds. Human magicians and other creatures on the two planets are able to create rifts through dimensionless space that can connect planets in different solar systems. The majority of Feist's works are part of The Riftwar Cycle, and feature the worlds of Midkemia and Kelewan.

Feist currently lives with his children in San Diego, 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. He wrote the novel two years later, and it was published in 1982 by Doubleday. During that year Feist had some ideas for a novel about a boy who would be a magician. in Communication Arts with Honors in 1977 from the University of California at San Diego. When his mother remarried, he took the surname of his adoptive stepfather, Felix E. Gonzales III was born in 1945 in Los Angeles, and was raised in Southern California. His books have been translated into multiple languages and have sold over 15 million copies.

He is best known for The Riftwar Cycle series of novels and short stories. Gonzales III, 1945) is an American author who primarily writes fantasy fiction. He has been writing since he first had success with Magician in 1982.

Raymond Elias Feist (born 1945, Los Angeles, California) is the author or co-author of nearly all books relating to the fantasy worlds of Midkemia and Kelewan and all books in The Riftwar Cycle.

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