The Magician's Nephew indefinitely. On 1 October 2013, The C.S. Lewis Company announced that they had entered into an agreement with The Mark Gordon Company to jointly develop and produce "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair", ultimately deciding to continue releasing the films to mirror the novel series' publication order. The decision thus places the work on "The Magician's Nephew" film on an indefinite hiatus. In 2008, the BBC produced a 10-part version read by Jane Lapotaire and signed by Jean St Clair wearing different Narnia like clothes in British Sign Language, airing on BBC 2. T.M. Wagner of SF Reviews said
Magician (fantasy) Sorcerers in "Conan the Barbarian" often gained powers from such books, which are demarcated by their strange bindings. In worlds where magic is not an innate trait, the scarcity of these strange books may be a facet of the story; in Poul Anderson's "A Midsummer Tempest", Prince Rupert seeks out the books of the magician Prospero to learn magic. The same occurs in the "Dungeons and Dragons"-based novel series "Dragonlance Chronicles", wherein Raistlin Majere seeks out the books of the sorcerer Fistandantilus. Some magicians, even after training, continue their education by learning more spells, inventing new ones (and new magical