Deze komische serie verkent het fascinerende concept van het gebruik van alternatieve realiteiten voor persoonlijk entertainment. De auteurs duiken speels in hoe individuen vermaak zouden kunnen zoeken en problemen zouden kunnen oplossen binnen gesimuleerde werelden. Het is een boeiende leeservaring die speelt met de grenzen van de verbeelding en het menselijk verlangen naar escapisme. Volg de personages op hun wilde avonturen door oneindige digitale universums.
Things have been going pretty badly for Theo Bernstein. An unfortunate accident at work lost him his job (and his work involved a Very Very Large Hadron Collider, so he's unlikely to get it back). His wife has left him. And he doesn't have any money.
A story of overlords, underlings and inhuman resources, The Outsorcerer's Apprentice isthe hilarious new novel from comic fantasist Tom Holt.
Mordak isn't bad, as far as goblin kings go, but when someone, or something, starts pumping gold into the human kingdoms it puts his rule into serious jeopardy. Suddenly he's locked in an arms race with a species whose arms he once considered merely part of a calorie-controlled diet. Helped by an elf with a background in journalism and a masters degree in being really pleased with herself, Mordak sets out to discover what on earth (if indeed, that's where he is) is going on. He knows that the truth is out there. If only he could remember where he put it