The entire #1 New York Times bestselling trilogy that inspired SYFY's The Magicians, now available in a gorgeous boxed set, including The Magicians, The Magician King, and The Magician's Land This beautiful boxed set makes a perfect gift for readers of the beloved fantasy series praised by George R. The Magicians Trilogy Box Set Book Review: No one who has escaped into the worlds of Narnia and Harry Potter should miss this breathtaking return to the landscape of the imagination. 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. The land of his childhood fantasies turns out to be much darker and more dangerous than he ever could have imagined.
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. When Quentin is unexpectedly admitted to an elite, secret college of magic, it looks like his wildest dreams have come true. 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. Club Quentin Coldwater is brilliant but miserable. an unexpectedly moving coming-of-age story.” -The New Yorker “The best urban fantasy in years.” -A.V. 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. Hogwarts was never like this.” -George R.R. 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. It’s the story of a boy becoming a man, an apprentice becoming a master, and a broken land finally becoming whole. The Magician’s Land is an intricate thriller, a fantastical epic, and an epic of love and redemption that brings the Magicians trilogy to a magnificent conclusion, confirming it as one of the great achievements in modern fantasy. To save them he will have to risk sacrificing everything. He uncovers the key to a sorcery masterwork, a spell that could create magical utopia, a new Fillory-but casting it will set in motion a chain of events that will bring Earth and Fillory crashing together. But all roads lead back to Fillory, and his new life takes him to old haunts, like Antarctica, and to buried secrets and old friends he thought were lost forever. Along with Plum, a brilliant young undergraduate with a dark secret of her own, Quentin sets out on a crooked path through a magical demimonde of gray magic and desperate characters. But he can’t hide from his past, and it’s not long before it comes looking for him. With nothing left to lose he returns to where his story began, the Brakebills Preparatory College of Magic.