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Product Details

  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Tor.com (September 1, 2015)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0765385244
  • ISBN-13: 978-0765385246
  • Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.5 x 8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #262,059 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful By Gypped on September 11, 2015
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This is an extremely well written and enjoyable book. As was mentioned by others, the language is full of juxtapositions - it will be crude and perhaps shocking, then within the same breath elegant and flowing. The book is very concise in it's storytelling: the author manages to convey a wealth of information and backstory without bogging anything down. It's very much an example of "show, don't tell", and done very well. There is also very good use made of Clarke's Third Law throughout.

I don't normally review books, but since there were so few reviews at the time I read this I felt I should get another one up.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful By Amazon Customer on September 7, 2015
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Excellent world building, unusual story structure, and wonderful, gorgeous use of many-leveled language.

There was one battle sequence that felt literally epic: the events were unique, but the text flow would have fit nicely into a good translation of the Illiad (or how I wish the Illiad got translated, perhaps).

Long enough for the story to have room to breathe but too short to have room for extraneous anything. Sort of the apotheosis of one half of an old Ace double.
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8 of 11 people found the following review helpful By Ron Macquarrie on September 1, 2015
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What an amazing book. I've never read anything quite like it. Way outside of any expectations. I can really only say read it for yourself. A young sorcerer/warrior on the way to becoming a god. Wonderful.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful By Amos Tukel on October 6, 2015
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Gorgeously written from the point of view of a caste in a wildly fantastic world that closely mirrors a contemporary black american experience and style. The two main characters--super heroic leaders of a group of brothers assigned to guard a merchant caravan--tangle with each other and a grisly enemy as they escort the merchants on a once-in-a-lifetime trade mission.

Real world building on display here, but the real star is the style in which the story is told (the way things should be, I think). For fans of Samuel R. Delaney, Ursula K Le Guin, and China Mieville certainly, but also I think for someone who wants a fresh take on high fantasy.
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By Maria Haskins on November 13, 2015
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I’m not quite sure what to say about Kai Ashante Wilson’s glorious, enigmatic, and utterly spell-binding ‘The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps’ that will do it justice. Maybe I should just say this: read it. Read it for a story-line that never goes where you think it might. Read it for characters that you desperately want to stay with, even when the story is over. Read it for Wilson’s intoxicating and dizzying prose that brilliantly flexes between crude and exquisite, between earthy everyday and divinely terrifying. Read it for the sheer pleasure of finding a writer who masterfully bends and twists and sculpts the language to conjure up and create another world – familiar enough in some ways to feel like it has to be our own world, yet so strange beneath that almost-familiar veneer that you’re gripped by a sense of WTF-vertigo.

I could read Wilson’s prose just for the pleasure of the language itself, but there is a compelling story here, too, and whatever you expect from ‘The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps’, I have a feeling that story will surprise you.

Kai Ashante Wilson’s prose is completely addictive: shifting effortlessly between crude and base, ornate and almost ceremonial in tone. I recently read his novelette ‘The Devil In America’ at Tor.com, a story that devastated me with its powerful language, original imagination, and bleeding-raw emotion. After reading ‘The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps’, I want to read everything he’s ever written.

Earlier this year I read Gene Wolfe’s ‘Soldier of the Mist‘, and in some ways ‘The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps’ reminds me of that novel. Just like Wolfe, Wilson manages to tell a fragmented and often utterly mystifying tale while keeping my rapt attention from the first paragraph to the last.
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By Kaleb Russell on November 23, 2015
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<i>The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps</i> is unlike any book you'll ever read in speculative fiction and no amount of gushing will be able to do it justice. It's a poignant tale of love and camaraderie about a young demigod and his quest to Godhood. I can't quite place it, but there's something magical about Wilson's writing. The words jump off the page to present you with lush imagery that'll astound you. His prose reads like poetry and it’s highly addictive. It’s easy to read, but also very though about the various topics such black masculinity. This is intelligent fiction that’ll make you think and you’d better think twice about devouring this in one go. During my reading experience, I held on to every word and found myself reading passages over and over to savor it. I’m a fast reader, but I spent months reading this novella because I just didn’t want it to end. This is a book to be savored and cherished.
I highly urge you to read this novella. You won’t regret it.
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By Força Porto! on October 30, 2015
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The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps is a as much poetry as prose, a fantasy yet with nods towards science fiction, a love story of violence and battle, a story that implies more than it says; all told in a minor key that catches and holds the reader.

This is a book to be read slowly (although it's hard to put down), and savored. Even its most discordant language, the brothers' dialogue, rings true to the ear. When the book ends-- and it isn't finished but ended-- it leaves the reader wanting it to continue, wanting to spend more time with it and in it.

Highly recommended.
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