Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    The Wizard: Book Two of The Wizard Knight
    Unavailable
    The Wizard: Book Two of The Wizard Knight
    Unavailable
    The Wizard: Book Two of The Wizard Knight
    Ebook745 pages14 hours

    The Wizard: Book Two of The Wizard Knight

    By Gene Wolfe

    3.5/5

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this ebook

    A novel in two volumes, The Wizard Knight is in the rare company of those works which move past the surface of fantasy and drink from the wellspring of myth. Magic swords, dragons, giants, quests, love, honor, nobility-all the familiar features of fantasy come to fresh life in this masterful work.

    The first half of the journey, The Knight -- which you are advised to read first, to let the whole story engulf you from the beginning -- took a teenage boy from America into Mythgarthr, the middle realm of seven fantastic worlds. Above are the gods of Skai; below are the capricious Aelf, and more dangerous things still. Journeying throughout Mythgarthr, Able gains a new brother, an Aelf queen lover, a supernatural hound, and the desire to prove his honor and become the noble knight he always knew he would be.

    Coming into Jotunland, home of the Frost Giants, Able -- now Sir Able of the High Heart --claims the great sword Eterne from the dragon who has it. In reward, he is ushered into the castle of the Valfather, king of all the Gods of Skai.

    Thus begins the second part of his quest. The Wizard begins with Able's return to Mythgathr on his steed Cloud, a great mare the color of her name. Able is filled with new knowledge of the ways of the seven-fold world and possessed of great magical secrets. His knighthood now beyond question, Able works to fulfill his vows to his king, his lover, his friends, his gods, and even his enemies. Able must set his world right, restoring the proper order among the denizens of all the seven worlds.

    The Wizard is a charming, riveting, emotionally charged tale of wonders, written with all the beauty one would expect from a writer whom Damon Knight called "a national treasure." If you've never sampled the works of the man Michael Swanwick described as "the greatest writer in the English language alive today," the two volumes of The Wizard Knight are the perfect place to start.



    At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateApr 1, 2007
    ISBN9781429915540
    Unavailable
    The Wizard: Book Two of The Wizard Knight
    Author

    Gene Wolfe

    Gene Wolfe (1931-2019) was the Nebula Award-winning author of The Book of the New Sun tetralogy in the Solar Cycle, as well as the World Fantasy Award winners The Shadow of the Torturer and Soldier of Sidon. He was also a prolific writer of distinguished short fiction, which has been collected in such award-winning volumes as Storeys from the Old Hotel and The Best of Gene Wolfe. A recipient of the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, the Edward E. Smith Memorial Award, and six Locus Awards, among many other honors, Wolfe was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2007, and named Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2012.

    Read more from Gene Wolfe

    Related to The Wizard

    Titles in the series (1)

    View More
    View More

    Related ebooks

    Fantasy For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Joe Abercrombie

      Sep 11, 2019

      It’s one of the hallmarks of a certain kind of fantasy that it appears to take place in an unchanging world of foundling princes, wizards and dark lords. Joe Abercrombie, for one, isn’t too keen on this idea. “I was always a bit frustrated by the san

      3 min read

    • Article

      Alastair Reynolds

      Aug 11, 2021

      What is your daily writing routine like? I’m not a morning person, so I don’t rush to the keyboard. Typically I’ll aim to get 1,000 words done before lunch, then another 1,000-2,000 by the end of the afternoon. Things shift around in winter as I like

      2 min read

    • Article

      Shards Of Earth

      May 19, 2021

      Shards Of Earth
      2 min read

    • Article

      Making History

      Jun 24, 2021

      Making History
      6 min read

    • Article

      Movie Novels Are Still Around, And They Aren't All Trash — Just Ask The Chicagoans Who Wrote Them

      Apr 1, 2020

      CHICAGO - Recently, during C2E2 at McCormick Place, the Random House imprint Del Rey, which publishes Lucasfilm-licensed "Star Wars" books, made an unusual choice and offered the novelization of "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" three weeks early. A

      9 min read

    • Article

      'Provenance': A Cozy Mystery Set In Ann Leckie's 'Ancillary' Universe

      Sep 27, 2017

      In this standalone novel, Ann Leckie returns to the world of her award-winning Ancillary trilogy with a different mission — a cozy mystery about the theft of some politically sensitive antiques.

      2 min read

    • Article

      Also Out

      Jul 15, 2020

      Words have mystical power in Jay Posey’s space opera EVERY SKY A GRAVE (out now, Harper Voyager). Set in a future where mankind has mastered the Deep Language of the universe, it centres on an adept sent to a world that’s become corrupted. The world

      1 min read

    • Article

      The City Of Dusk

      Mar 23, 2022

      RELEASED OUT NOW! 576 pages | Hardback/ebook/audiobook Author Tara Sim Publisher Hodder & Stoughton City Of Dusk is deceptive; it starts off relatively fluffy and ends elbows-deep in blood. It’s told from the perspectives of a number of characters, t

      1 min read

    • Article

      Eversion

      May 18, 2022

      Eversion
      2 min read

    • Article

      The Vanished Birds

      Aug 12, 2020

      Starship captain Nia Imani returns home to one of the great trade Stations with an unexpected passenger who will change the course of history… Umbai’s Ark departed from the Colombian Elevator two years later, in early June. It was the third to leave

      5 min read

    • Article

      N.K. Jemisin Makes History At The Hugo Awards With Third Win In A Row For Best Novel

      Aug 21, 2018

      The winners of the Hugo Awards, considered some of the most prestigious science fiction and fantasy literary prizes, were announced on Sunday, with science fiction author N.K. Jemisin making history as the first writer ever to win the best novel awar

      2 min read

    • Article

      Jay Kristoff

      Sep 8, 2021

      MOST NOVELISTS HAVE AT LEAST ONE book in a drawer that represents an early effort, a text that will never be offered up to a wider readership. In the case of Jay Kristoff, this book was a tale of bloodsuckers he wrote in 2008. “It was right at the ta

      3 min read

    • Article

      Bill And The Tooth Fairy

      Mar 10, 2021

      Bill believed in the Tooth Fairy. Big deal, you’re thinking. Lots of kids believe in the Tooth Fairy. Well, Bill wasn’t a kid. He was twenty-eight years old. You don’t believe it. My girlfriend Mary Beth didn’t believe it, either. We were having dinn

      15 min read

    • Article

      A Dragon’s Perspective

      Jun 10, 2022

      There once lived a dragon named Deathwing. Well, at least that’s what they called him. Deathwing was growing old, far too old for his liking. The joints of his claws ached and groaned under his ever-growing weight and his scales were beginning to los

      18 min read

    • Article

      Quotients

      May 7, 2020

      Quotients
      8 min read

    • Article

      Why Leaves Have Many Colors in Autumn

      Sep 1, 2023

      Why Leaves Have Many Colors in Autumn
      3 min read

    • Article

      60 Second Screenplay

      Apr 3, 2020

      60 Second Screenplay
      2 min read

    • Article

      Tall Tales

      Dec 22, 2023

      Tall Tales
      2 min read

    • Article

      MYTHS, from Mull to Braemar

      Aug 19, 2022

      MYTHS, from Mull to Braemar
      5 min read

    Reviews for The Wizard

    3.5/5

    12 ratings8 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 2/5
      The style was disjointed. The story bounced around with whole area skipped. It was not worth the time invested.
    • 1/5
      Okay, I have only looked at the first, and read a few pages. I thought I'd see what was going on with this one first...
      The answer is, incomprehensible nonsense, that grows tired by about the third paragraph. There are a few books that work with a vernacular style of writing. Pilgerman, A Clockwork Orange and Feersun Endgin come to mind. But characters portrayed only by their wonky way of talking are usually tiresome. Pratchett makes good use of it in the odd character.
      But when it is the main protagonists in the first two chapters, it is seriously annoying. When I find myself reading 2 chapters of a book that fails to entertain, says nothing, and speaks in a difficult to follow lingo, I throw it away. Gene Wolfe has been good in the past. He has also been stultifyingly dull. This is one of the latter. Some reviews suggest these books are somehow original in the fantasy market. Rubbish. There is nothing new here, and the literary trick of having a boy in a man's body has little mileage any more... since Tom Hanks in Big, actually, and that was due to the skill of the actor.
      Avoid.
    • 4/5
      A very tricky, but rewarding read. Like all of Wolfe, it is filled with major events that happen in a single sentence or even none at all, where the reader is expected to have understood what happens because of something foreshadowed chapters ago. This can be both frustrating, if you miss it, or rewarding when you get it. Not a book to be read when tired, for sure.I don't think I fully understand the ending, or how the story, which all takes place in Wolfe's 7-fold world around Mythgarthr, interacts with the life of the American boy who is the narrator and his brother (who is also a character in the book). This would probably profit from a reread, but I expect I will be going back to the Book of the New Sun as a reread first.
    • 2/5
      I thought the book bogged down at times. Many of the characters and situations are extremely enjoyable, at times the writing is captivating, but the book is disjointed. I did not get the ending and the immense battle. It's like the bad guy came out of nowhere.
    • 4/5
      This being the second Gene Wolfe book I have read, I now understand what his fans mean when they describe his particular narrative style. It is something akin to dark and otherworldly dreaminess. Nothing important is intricately detailed when you expect it to be. This is a quality I found alluring and refreshing compared to more forceful authors who find it necessary to cram the plot points down your throat.As the follow up to The Knight, the first half of the book was little tedious and I found myself needing to take a break for a week before I felt up to coming back to it. I'm glad I did, because the last half was very rewarding, but not necessarily revealing.The substance of this story draws a lot from Scandinavian and Saxon myth. This is made all the more interesting however by the way it is delivered. These small details are mainly presented briefly as a fleeting sentence here or there. Given that, I would probably find these two books more rewarding if I read a few primers on Norse mythology. The most intriguing element of the book is the young narrator and the story being told in the form of a letter. There are a multitude of very subtle connections between the grand mythical world the story is set in and the American life the narrator is from. I won't spoil anything, but the last paragraph of this book gave me cause to reflect at length on the entire two books and to ponder the point of storytelling. In the end, I would recommend this book, and its predecessor The Knight, for readers who enjoy a curious story which requires the reader to speculate often. This story is by no means clearly laid out for quick consumption, and for this I found it quite entertaining.
    • 4/5
      This was a little bit of a letdown from The Knight. The first half dragged for me, but thankfully it picked up again in the second half. Definitely a must-read if you've read and enjoyed the first book, and overall a worthwhile series.
    • 5/5
      It's amazing, truly amazing.Gene Wolfe takes what ought to be a simple story and makes it rock with twists, turns, betrayals, action, fun, love and more.Neil Gaiman's review: read this or the cool people will laugh at you sums it up for me - and don't you want to be one of the people that Neil Gaiman just might think is cool?
    • 5/5
      As of now I'm giving this book 4 1/2 stars. Upon further readings I may have to up it to 5. I cannot think of a better living author in the Fantasy genre than Gene Wolfe.