The Outsorcerers Apprentice, Tom Holt
The Outsorcerers Apprentice, Tom Holt
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The Outsorcerer's Apprentice
YouSpace Book 3

Author: Tom Holt

Series: YouSpace

Narrator: Ray Sawyer

Unabridged: 13 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/15/2014

Synopsis

'Satisfying and entertaining.' - RT Book Reviews

'Entertaining.... Holt has a zany humor that will appeal to fans of Terry Pratchett and Christopher Moore.' - Library Journal

A HAPPY WORKFORCE, IT IS SAID, IS A PRODUCTIVE WORKFORCE.

Try telling that to an army of belligerent goblins. Or the Big Bad Wolf. Or a professional dragon slayer. Who is looking after their well-being? Who gives a damn about their intolerable working conditions, lack of adequate health insurance, and terrible coffee in the canteen?

Thankfully, with access to an astonishingly diverse workforce and limitless natural resources, maximizing revenue and improving operating profit has never really been an issue for the one they call 'the Wizard.' Until now.

Because now a perfectly good business model-based on sound fiscal planning, entrepreneurial flair, and only one or two of the infinite parallel worlds that make up our universe-is about to be disrupted by a young man not entirely aware of what's going on.

There's also a slight risk that the fabric of reality will be torn to shreds. You really do have to be awfully careful with these things.

A story of overlords, underlings and inhuman resources, The Outsorcerer's Apprentice is
the hilarious new novel from comic fantasist Tom Holt.

Books by Tom Holt:

Walled Orchard Series
Goatsong
The Walled Orchard

J.W. Wells & Co. Series
The Portable Door
In Your Dreams
Earth, Air, Fire and Custard
You Don't Have to Be Evil to Work Here, But It Helps
The Better Mousetrap
May Contain Traces of Magic
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Sausages

YouSpace Series
Doughnut
When It's A Jar
The Outsorcerer's Apprentice
The Good, the Bad and the Smug

Novels
Expecting Someone Taller
Who's Afraid of Beowulf
Flying Dutch
Ye Gods!
Overtime
Here Comes the Sun
Grailblazers
Faust Among Equals
Odds and Gods
Djinn Rummy
My Hero
Paint your Dragon
Open Sesame
Wish you Were Here
Alexander at World's End
Only Human
Snow White and the Seven Samurai
Olympiad
Valhalla
Nothing But Blue Skies
Falling Sideways
Little People
Song for Nero
Meadowland
Barking
Blonde Bombshell
The Management Style of the Supreme Beings
An Orc on the Wild Side

About Tom Holt

Tom Holt was born in London in 1961. At Oxford he studied bar billiards, ancient Greek agriculture and the care and feeding of small, temperamental Japanese motorcycle engines. These interests led him, perhaps inevitably, to qualify as a solicitor and emigrate to Somerset, where he specialised in death and taxes for seven years before going straight in 1995. He lives in Chard, Somerset, with his wife and daughter. He also writes as K. J. Parker.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Julia on February 05, 2017

First of - this is not a book for everybody. If you love silly, crazy and over the top humor - then go for it! You'll love it as much as me! If you don't - keep clear of this one... Scenes like this one, made me absolutely fall in love with the book: “In order to fulfill your quest -" "Would you please......more

Goodreads review by Melissa on November 07, 2020

I liked the opening of this book, with Buttercup the woodcutter's daughter turning all the fairy tale tropes on their heads. Unfortunately, that sense of whimsy didn't stick around for long. Though this is overall a fun story about Fantasyland expectations and a commentary on fairy tale economies, i......more

Goodreads review by Justin on July 24, 2022

The Outsorcerer's Apprentice commits one of my cardinal sins of writing right off the bat: nowhere does it say that this is part of a series. The synopsis on the back makes it sound like a completely standalone story, the list of other books by the author at the beginning does absolutely nothing to......more

Goodreads review by Doc Opp on October 13, 2015

I picked up this book because I like clever wordplay, and the title amused me. And early on, I was consistently impressed by the cleverness of the writing, the snarky observational satire, and generally the wittiness. It reminded me a bit of Terry Pratchett, or A. Lee Martinez, or Douglas Adams. I h......more

Goodreads review by Marina on January 07, 2024

very enjoyable, definitely silly, i especially liked the chapter written by a soldier that used to be a tooth.......more

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