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n. (plural of wizard English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: wizard)

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Wizards (film)

Wizards is a 1977 American animated post-apocalyptic science fantasy film about the battle between two wizards, one representing the forces of magic and one representing the forces of industrial technology. It was written, produced, and directed by Ralph Bakshi.

Wizards is notable for being the first fantasy film made by Bakshi, who was previously known only for urban films such as Fritz the Cat, Heavy Traffic and Coonskin. It grossed $9 million theatrically from a $1.2 million budget, and has since become a cult classic.

Wizards (board game)

Wizards is a fantasy board game designed by Thomas Mosbø and Coral Mosbø.

Wizards (anthology)

Wizards: Magical Tales from the Masters of Modern Fantasy is an anthology of fantasy short fiction edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois. It was published in 2007 by Berkley Books (ISBN 9780425215180) and in 2008 by Ace Books (ISBN 9780441015887).

The stories are:

  • " The Witch's Headstone" by Neil Gaiman
  • " Holly and Iron" by Garth Nix
  • " Color Vision" by Mary Rosenblum
  • " The Ruby Incomparable" by Kage Baker
  • " A Fowl Tale" by Eoin Colfer
  • " Slipping Sideways Through Eternity" by Jane Yolen
  • " The Stranger’s Hands" by Tad Williams
  • " Naming Day" by Patricia A. McKillip
  • " Winter’s Wife" by Elizabeth Hand
  • " A Diorama of the Infernal Regions, or The Devil's Ninth Question" by Andy Duncan
  • " Barrens Dance" by Peter S. Beagle
  • " Stone Man" by Nancy Kress
  • " The Manticore Spell" by Jeffrey Ford
  • " Zinder" by Tanith Lee
  • " Billy and the Wizard"' by Terry Bisson
  • " The Magikkers" by Terry Dowling
  • " The Magic Animal" by Gene Wolfe
  • " Stonefather" by Orson Scott Card

Category:Fantasy anthologies Category:Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois Ace anthologies Category:2007 short story collections

Wizards (Asimov anthology)

Wizards is an anthology of fantasy and science fiction short stories edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh as the first volume in their Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy series. It was first published in paperback by Signet/New American Library in October 1983. It was later gathered together with Witches, the second book in the series, into the omnibus hardcover collection Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy: Witches & Wizards (1985).

The book collects ten novellas, novelettes and short stories by various fantasy and science fiction authors, with an introduction by Asimov.

Usage examples of "wizards".

During the war, the sorceresses practiced only the Vagaries, the wizards only the Vigors.

Young eyes that had already seen too many of the horrors of life hungrily searched the wizards profile for answers.

He had often been told that the mental processes and physical actions of wizards were piled upon each other in seamless intricacy, carefully constructed layers of thought and deed.

He also did not wish to be counseled by wizards for the remainder of his life.

He had defiantly ignored his requisite daily classes with the wizards to come here today, and to be alone.

That had been seven years ago, and he had come to the forest virtually every afternoon since, after his daily classes with the wizards were over.

But the thought of the six wizards of the Directorate seeing him hanging over a cliff so close to the abdication ceremony started him laughing all over again.

The Directorate of Wizards, endowed advisors to the reigning king of Eutracia.

Paragon that so augmented the exceptional power of the wizards of the Directorate.

He had been educated in all matter of things his entire life by the wizards in preparation for his succession of his father as king.

Once he was king, the wizards would probably make him cut his hair in a more appropriate style.

Still others declared that they had been created by the wizards and, as such, only those trained in the craft were able to see them.

Many wizards, some more capable than myself, died in the attempts to reverse the process.

Your entire family and Directorate of Wizards itself would go to the ends of the world for you.

It is the school of magic to which each of the wizards of the Directorate have taken their vows.