Magician's Gambit
- Published
- 1 January 1983
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN-13
- 9780345335456
- Type
- novel
About this book
Magician's Gambit followed in 1983 at 320 pages, close in length to Queen of Sorcery before it. The unlikely party -- a horse thief, a Drasnian spymaster princess, a Cherek warrior prince, an Algar horse lord -- presses on toward the stolen Orb of Aldur as the five-thousand-year-old prophecy at the story's center keeps unfolding.
Key facts about Magician's Gambit
Magician's Gambit is a novel by David Eddings. Readers have had it since 1983. It runs to 320 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of Magician's Gambit. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780345335456 to find the main one.
Magician's Gambit is book 3 of 5 in The Belgariad series. The series has 5 published books. However, the series starts with Pawn of Prophecy (1982).
Additionally, David Eddings writes The Malloreon, The Elenium and The Tamuli, plus 1 more series. Those series sit on our epic fantasy shelf. Meanwhile, The Younger Gods is the latest published David Eddings book on file, from 2006.
About David Eddings
David Eddings was an American fantasy author whose Belgariad and Malloreon series, launched with Pawn of Prophecy in 1982, became two of the best-selling and most influential epic fantasy sagas of the 1980s, helping cement the multi-book quest-fantasy format as a commercial mainstay. See every David Eddings book in order.
Its place in The Belgariad
Magician's Gambit is book 3 in the The Belgariad series. It follows Queen of Sorcery. It is followed by Castle of Wizardry. See the full The Belgariad reading order.
The Belgariad opens with Garion, a farm boy on Faldor's farm who has no idea he's the last in an ancient line of sorcerer-kings, swept into a quest alongside his aunt Pol and grandfather-figure Belgarath when a stolen jewel of world-shaping power, the Orb of Aldur, is taken north by a Grolim priest. What follows across five books is a five-thousand-year-old prophecy working itself out through an unlikely party -- a horse thief, a Drasnian spymaster princess, a Cherek warrior prince, an Algar horse lord -…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780345335456