Raymond E. Feist

One of the world’s bestselling fantasy authors, Raymond Elias Feist describes himself as a ‘Southern Californian by birth and a San Diegan by choice’. A long-time role-playing game fan, Feist first created the landscape of his bestselling sequence ‘The Riftwar Cycle’ when at university, as a role-playing alternative to Dungeons and Dragons. Feist then decided to expand the universe in fiction, beginning with his 1982 cult novel Magician. Over several series and generations Feist has continued develop the worlds of Midkemia and Kelewan, creating one of the most thoroughly realised fantasy landscapes of all-time. Feist’s 2018 novel King of Ashes marked a departure from the Riftwar Cycle and was the first novel in the planned new trilogy, Firemane.