Mask of the Sorcerer, by Darrell Schweitzer (Hardcover)
Brand : Wildside Press
- SKU:
- 9780809532827
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- 809532824
"If ever your heart has said, The great days are no more. The golden afternoon of golden tales has faded into night, and I came late, born out of time, to warm my hands at the embers that flicker and fade hour by hour - read this. . . Here are ghosts grim and gentle, red gold of Ophir, and fell weavings. Here is a tale to keep Scheherazade talking a hundred years."
- Gene Wolfe
"Darrell Schweitzer is a fine writer . . . Not only is he skilled in the exotic use of the best trappings of Fantasy, he employs a disquieting awareness of the dark nooks of the mind and soul. . . . Best of all, Schweitzer is a story-teller, by whose smoky fire one may sit spell-bound."
- Tanith Lee
"Superlative."
- Interzone
"The Mask of the Sorcerer is one of the ten best fantasy novels of the past generation. The plot is compelling and moves at breathtaking pace. The characters are intriguing, multi-dimensional, lovingly drawn. The fear is chilling, the excitement intense. But mostly The Mask of the Sorcerer is about magic. True magic. Magic that rings in the bones and the soul, magic that very few contemporary writers can understand or create. Darrell Schweitzer is a sorcerer, and his knowledge of magic is awesome. The Mask of the Sorcerer is authentic, a beacon shining above a sea of imitations. Unique as all great creations are unique, it stands alone."
- Morgan Llywelyn
"There is a small but very select group of fantasy writers whom I regard as the inheritors of one of the greatest of all fantasists, Lord Dunsany. . . . Many have tried to imitate Dunsany but few have succeeded. Amongst Dunsany's inheritors have been Jack Vance, Clark Ashton Smith, Michael Shea, and today's supreme stylist, Darrell Schweitzer."
- Mike Ashley, introducing "To Become a Sorcerer" (the novella version of chapters 1-4 of The Mask of the Sorcerer) in The Mammoth Book of Sorcerer's Tales (2004).
Darrell Schweitzer has been three-times nominated for the World Fantasy Award, twice for Best Collection, and once for the novella "To Become a Sorcerer," which forms the first four chapters of this book. He is also the author of The White Isle, The Shattered Goddess, and nearly 300 short stories, many of which are collected in such volumes as Tom O'Bedlam's Night Out, Transients, Refugees from an Imaginary Country, Nightscapes, and The Great World and the Small. An expert on fantastic fiction, who has written books about Lord Dunsany and H.P. Lovecraft, he is also co-editor of the legendary Weird Tales magazine.