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The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps (edition 2015)

by Kai Ashante Wilson (Author)

Series: The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps (1)

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Fantasy. Fiction. Romance. LGBTQIA+ (Fiction.) HTML: 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. .… (more)

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Title:	The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps
Authors:	Kai Ashante Wilson (Author)
Info:	Tor.com (2015), 224 pages
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"There go the Sorcerer." Teef shook his head, grinning that wrecked-tooth grin. "Always up in some damn water tryna warsh. Man, one day you gonna turn around, catch cold, and wake up dead behind all that water!" (

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Jon_Hansen | Jul 15, 2022 |

It's... not working out well for me.
The writing style is tying my mind in knots for some reason.
Also, it somehow feels disjointed?

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I hereby officially give up on this read.
The aforementioned still applies. I just could not get into it. And there is only headache to show for my efforts.

FINAL VERDICT : READ AT YOUR OWN PERIL (

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QuirkyCat_13 | Jun 20, 2022 |

Oh yes. Everyone go read this book right now. If you are not a Genre person, just disregard the title and read it anyway. (

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leahsusan | Mar 26, 2022 |

Read this after really enjoying "A Taste of Honey" by the same author (5*). I found that the structure and narrative style of this novella was really difficult to read though and I gave up on it part way though. Surprised and a bit sad. (

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mjhunt | Jan 22, 2021 |

I hope this gets classified as a novella for the Hugos so it doesn't get crushed by The Fifth Season. The mixture of idioms and imagery and cultures and peoples is unlike anything else I've read, if not ever than for longer than I can remember. It works to immediately break and reset your expectations. I don't want to say much about the details, because I found I enjoyed knowing nothing about it when I began. I will say, I am in willful denial about the ending. Except I'm not, of course, because what *seems* to have happened of course did not happen at all. Of course not. Nope. (

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Wilson, Kai Ashante	Author	primary author	all editions	confirmed
Foltzer, Christine	Cover designer	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Free, Kevin	Narrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Ortiz, Karla	Cover artist	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps (1)

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The Long List Anthology Volume 2: More Stories From the Hugo Award Nomination List by David Steffen

In Our Own Worlds #2: Four LGBTQ Tor.com Novellas by Tor.com

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Tor.com Publishing Fall 2015 Sampler by Tor.com

▾Awards and Honors

Awards

Gaylactic Spectrum Award (Nominee – Novel – 2016)

IAFA William L. Crawford Fantasy Award (Winner – 2016)

io9 Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of the Year (2015)

Locus Award (Finalist – First Novel – 2016)

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Publishers Weekly's Best Books of the Year (Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror – 2015)

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1,000 Books to Read Before You Die Page-A-Day Calendar (2021)

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The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps

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2015-09-01

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Demane

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For LeRoy Whitfield, who fell first, though ten times the warrior I was then or ever will be

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The merchants and burdened camels went on ahead into the Station at Mother of Waters.

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Every night the brazen sphere dissolves in a molten line, compelling the gaze westward when the sky's dark otherwise.

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Fantasy. Fiction. Romance. LGBTQIA+ (Fiction.) HTML:

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.

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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. (back cover)

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