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Country
  
United States

Publication date
  
2004

Pages
  
239 pp

Author
  
Darrell Schweitzer

Cover artist
  
Stephen Fabian

Genres
  
Fiction, Fantasy

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Illustrator
  
Stephen Fabian

Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Paperback)

Originally published
  
2004

Publisher
  
Wildside Press

OCLC
  
60348078

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Darrell Schweitzer books, Fantasy books

Sekenre: The Book of the Sorcerer is a collection of fantasy short stories written by Darrell Schweitzer featuring his dark fantasy protagonist, the child sorcerer Sekenre, a sequel to the novel The Mask of the Sorcerer (1995). The book was illustrated by Stephen Fabian. It was first published as a trade paperback by Wildside Press in 2004.

Contents

The collection consists of twelve stories of Sekenre, originally published from 1994-2004 in a number of fantasy fiction magazines.

Contents

  • "On the Last Night of the Festival of the Dead" (from Interzone no. 90, Dec. 1994)
  • "The Sorcerer's Gift" (from Worlds of Fantasy & Horror, Win. 1996-7)
  • "King Father Stone" (from Interzone no. 103, Jan. 1996)
  • "The Giant Vorviades" (from Interzone no. 99, Sep. 1995)
  • "The Silence of Kings" (from Weirdbook no. 30, Spr. 1997)
  • "Vandibar Nasha in the College of Shadows" (from Adventures of Sword and Sorcery no. 7, Sep. 2000)
  • "In the Street of the Witches" (from Weird Tales v. 56, no. 4, Sum. 2000)
  • "The Lantern of the Supreme Moment" (from Space and Time no. 93, Spr. 2001)
  • "From Out of the Crocodile's Mouth" (from Weird Tales v. 58, no. 1, Fall 2001)
  • "Dreams of the Stone King's Daughter" (from Weird Tales v. 59, no. 2, Win. 2002)
  • "Seeking the Gifts of the Queen of Vengeance" (from Odyssey, iss. 2, 1998)
  • "Lord Abernaeven's Tale" (from Weird Tales v. 60, no. 2, Jan.-Feb. 2004)

    • Plot

    The stories relate various episodes in the life of the immortal sorcerer Sekenre, who stopped aging physically when he first became a sorcerer when still a child, as he confronts various threats and challenges while attempting to maintain some semblance of humanity down the ages.

    References

    Sekenre: The Book of the Sorcerer Wikipedia
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