the sorcerer of the wildeeps by kai ashante wilson

is the story equivalent of the shot heard around the world.” -Marty Cahill, BookRiot ' shows that fantasy still has some really fascinating places to go.' -Charlie Jane Anders, io9 “This rich, delicately crafted world is stocked with vibrant characters… and supports a powerful story told in a delightful series of wrenching moments.” - Publishers Weekly Starred Review 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' 'Seamlessly knots magic and science in a wholly organic way. Read it.' - Max Gladstone, author of the Craft Sequence

'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.

Jemisin, author of The Fifth Season and The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms The result is powerful and strange and painful in all the right ways.' -N.K. '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. '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 'The unruly lovechild of Shakespeare, Baldwin, George RR Martin and Ghostface Killah - this was a book I could not put down.' - Daniel José Older, author of Half-Resurrection Blues 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. The one safe road between the northern oasis and southern kingdom is stalked by a necromantic terror. 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. 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. Since leaving his homeland, the earthbound demigod Demane has been labeled a sorcerer.

One of Wired's Twenty-Five All-Time Favorite BooksĬritically 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.

The sorcerer of the wildeeps by kai ashante wilson