The New Magic

The highly anticipated sequel to #1 International Bestseller Dragon’s Trail

“Tell me who you ride beside, and I’ll tell you who you are.”

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  “Action, humor, and intrigue . . . James Bond in tarnished armor.”

Publishers Weekly

The Outworlders

Book One: Dragon’s Trail

Once dubbed “The Deadliest Man Alive,” Jarrod Torrealday is a former Olympic saber hopeful and medieval weapons expert banned from competition for killing another fencer in a duel. He now scrapes by as a stuntman and technical consultant for low-budget fantasy films.

A young sorcerer from another world offers Jarrod the gig of a lifetime: adviser to the war council for a magical realm teetering on the edge of collapse, with a foreign army massing just beyond its borders.

Swept into a treacherous and deadly world of intrigue and conspiracy, Jarrod soon learns that the enemy mastermind is also from Earth, and has laid the foundations for a new kind of war.

Seamlessly blending hard science with epic fantasy, Dragon’s Trail is an international bestseller that’s being hailed as the pioneering work of a new genre: the Fantasy Technothriller. Dragon’s Trail is available at all major retailers in ebook and hardcopy formats.

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“Fantasy with a twist . . . executed with verve and intelligence.”

“[Dragon’s Trail] features immersive detail and hold-your-breath battle scenes.”

The Booklife Prize

"The new king of world building."

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For Your Consideration

For Your Consideration

Nov 15, 2018

Greetings, and thank you. This is my second year of eligibility for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in science fiction or fantasy. My second novel, The New Magic, is also eligible for both the Hugo and the Nebula in 2019.  The New Magic launched into...

“Hard fantasy, written with great attention paid to every last detail . . . effortless and finely written. The world-building is extremely well done and so realistic that I was able to easily fall into this world and enjoy every minute.”

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February 15, 2019: Columbia Center Barnes and Noble, Kennewick, WA. Signing and AMA, 5-6 PM. 

February 15-17, 2019: RADCON, Pasco, WA. http://www.radcon.org 

March 14, 2019: EMERALD CITY COMIC CON, Seattle, WA. Panel: "Pacific Northwest Indie Author Success Stories" Room TCC L3-R3, 5:15-6:15 PM

Aug 15-19, 2019: WORLDCON 77, Dublin, Ireland. https://dublin2019.com

 

About the Author

 

In addition to fiction, Joseph Malik writes and lectures on advanced intelligence theory and asymmetric warfare for the U.S. military. He has worked as a stuntman, a high-rise window washer, a freelance writer, a computational linguist, a touring rock musician, and a soldier in the United States Special Operations Command. 

Dragon’s Trail  is hailed as the first of its genre: a Fantasy Technothriller. Help innovative authors by signing the Change.org petition to convince Amazon to add “Science Fantasy” as a recognized genre. Click the link below to reach the petition. The link will open in a new tab.

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