The Un-Magician, the first book in the OutCast seriesby Christopher Golden and Thomas E. Sniegoski, is nowin stores. It will be shelved in the children'sdepartment, but the target audience is actually quitewide. It is recommended for adults and teens too,especially those who enjoy fantasy series. It willcertain appeal to those who enjoy books along the lineof the Harry Potter series and the Pendragon series,or books by Madeleine L'Engle or Diana Wynne Jones,for example.

The world they have created in OutCast is one in whicheverything - fire, light, transportation, cooking,even opening doors - is run via magic. Everyone in theworld is connected to magic, with mages more adept,and the most skilled running nations andcongregations. Everyone can do magic - that is, exceptfor one boy.

The most dangerous boy in the world?

Timothy is a freak, a weakling, an impossibility. He's the only person in existence without magicalpowers and has spent his entire life hidden on aremote island. When Timothy is finally taken back tothe city of his birth, he is fascinated by the currentof magic that fuels the world, and mesmerized by thebuildings and orbs that hang weightlessly in the sky.

But he is also marked for death.

Assassins are watching his every move, and thegovernment wants him destroyed. Timothy can't imaginewhat threat he could possibly pose; after all, hewields no power in this world.

Or does he?

Pick up The Un-Magician to find out what is to becomeof Timothy and discover how someone rumored to be voidof power can yield some of the most powerful tools ofall.