The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps

Name: The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps
Brand: Macmillan Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Kai Ashante Wilson
ISBN: 9781427268884

Author: Kai Ashante Wilson

Narrator: Kevin R. Free

Unabridged: 5 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Published: 09/01/2015

Categories: Fiction, Fantasy, Epic, Romance, Lgbtq+

Synopsis

Critically acclaimed author Kai Ashante Wilson makes his 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.

About Kai Ashante Wilson

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Erik

DSKL@()*$SJDL#NRK#JNFLKNGSN@KMNCJNKS#(*$&FJNSRKJWR ARGH!! Okay. Vexation voided, frustration exfoliated. So I’m gonna lay into this mafa. I gonna take a machete upside this beyotch, gonna show you guts, some shock-of-white-bone, a little bit o critique hoodoo. But before I do, allow me to expound on wh......more

Goodreads review by Althea

After seeing literally dozens of reviews for this novella, I had to see for myself what was going on here... I'd read only one other story from Wilson previously, and it didn't blow me away - but this - this was great. A few of the reviews I'd seen criticized the style as being opaque and/or confusin......more

Goodreads review by TheBookSmugglers

I wish to preface this review by saying I was entranced by this story and I loved it with all my heart – the same heart that was PULLED FROM MY CHEST AND STOMPED ON by its ending. Oh, look: my heart bleeding at Kai Ashante Wilson’s feet. The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps follows a caravan traversing a dan......more

Goodreads review by Bethany (Beautifully Bookish Bethany)

Okay, I LOVED this!! I see a lot of mediocre reviews, but honestly I think that's more a marketing problem than a book problem. This book has a lot more in common with Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe than say Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter. And the description is kind of misleading. The Sorcerer o......more

Goodreads review by karen

i liked the style and the energy of this book very much. it’s an appealing mash-up of traditional fantasy adventure tropes peppered with harlem renaissance/jazz age cadence: The horseman pulled up short. (Breeze blowing northwesterly still: Fat-Man’s bowels let go) and others more modern and hip-hop-r......more

Awards

The IAFA William L. Crawford Fantasy Award
Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year