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The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps
Contributor(s): Wilson, Kai Ashante (Author)
ISBN: 0765385244     ISBN-13: 9780765385246
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
OUR PRICE:   $14.39  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: September 2015
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Fantasy - Epic
- Fiction | Science Fiction - Action & Adventure
- Fiction | Romance - Lgbt - Gay
Dewey: 813.6
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5" W x 8" (0.50 lbs) 224 pages
Themes:
- Sex & Gender - Gay
 
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Publisher Description:

One of Wired's Twenty-Five All-Time Favorite Books

Critically acclaimed author Kai Ashante Wilson makes his commercial debut with this striking, wondrous tale of gods and mortals, magic and steel, and life and death that will reshape how you look at sword and sorcery.

Since leaving his homeland, the earthbound demigod Demane has been labeled a sorcerer. With his ancestors' artifacts in hand, the Sorcerer follows the Captain, a beautiful man with song for a voice and hair that drinks the sunlight.

The two of them are the descendants of the gods who abandoned the Earth for Heaven, and they will need all the gifts those divine ancestors left to them to keep their caravan brothers alive.

The one safe road between the northern oasis and southern kingdom is stalked by a necromantic terror. Demane may have to master his wild powers and trade humanity for godhood if he is to keep his brothers and his beloved captain alive.

PRAISE FOR THE SORCERER OF THE WILDEEPS

The unruly lovechild of Shakespeare, Baldwin, George RR Martin and Ghostface Killah -- this was a book I could not put down. - Daniel Jos Older, author of Half-Resurrection Blues

Lyrical and polyphonous, gorgeous and brutal, THE SORCERER OF THE WILDEEPS is an unforgettable tale of love that empowers. - Ken Liu, multiple Hugo Award-winning author of The Grace of Kings

Wilson is doing something both very new and very old here: he's tossing aside the traditional forms of sword and sorcery in favor of other, older forms, and gluing it all together with a love letter to black masculinity. The result is powerful and strange and painful in all the right ways. -N.K. Jemisin, author of The Fifth Season and The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

THE SORCERER OF THE WILDEEPS reads like Gene Wolfe and Samuel R Delany trying to one-up each other on a story prompt by Fritz Leiber. That means it's good. Read it. - Max Gladstone, author of the Craft Sequence

Seamlessly knots magic and science in a wholly organic way... THE SORCERER OF THE WILDEEPS will catch you by the throat and hold you fast until the last searing word. - Alyssa Wong, Nebula-nominated author of The Fisher Queen


Contributor Bio(s): Wilson, Kai Ashante: - KAI ASHANTE WILSON was the 2010 Octavia Butler scholar at Clarion writing workshop in San Diego. He won the Crawford award for best first novel of 2016, and his works have been shortlisted for the Hugo, Nebula, Shirley Jackson, Theodore Sturgeon, Locus, and World Fantasy awards. Most of his stories can be read at Tor.com, and the rest at Fantasy-magazine.com or in the anthology Stories for Chip. His novellas The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps and A Taste of Honey are available from all fine e-book purveyors. Kai Ashante Wilson lives in New York City.