· Read "Mask of the Sorcerer An Epic Fantasy Novel" by Darrell Schweitzer available from Rakuten Kobo. "If ever your heart has said, 'The great days are no more. The golden afternoon of golden tales has faded into night, an 5/5. · Schweitzer is a master at creating otherworldly landscapes awash in strangeness. While he writes without the ornate prose of Clark Ashton Smith, his lands beyond the waking world are as deeply weird and resonant. MotS is the filled with the substance of dreams and nightmares. I am doing insufficient justice to The Mask of the Sorcerer. The story is presented as the book Sekenre writes in . Best of all, Schweitzer is a story-teller, by whose smoky fire one may sit spell-bound." — Tanith Lee "Superlative." —Interzone 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.
Finally,you should not buy Mask of the Sorcerer because GENE WOLFE gives the book a glowing, no, an incandescent,review. You should read this book because Schweitzer is an absolute master of fantasy prose. This book follows the life of a sorcerer,Sekenre,from childhood to mastery of his craft. Darrell Schweitzer is a sorcerer, and his knowledge of magic is awesome." Upon completing Mask, Schweitzer continued to explore the immortal existence of Sekenre in a series of twelve stories that grew in mystical complexity, surreal depictions of sorcery, and celestial scope. A self-standing companion to Darrell Schweitzer's British Fantasy Award-nominated The Mask of the Sorcerer, the present volume collects all the Sekenre stories, which proved very popular when originally published in Weird Tales, Interzone, Adventures in Sword Sorcery, and elsewhere.
_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. Schweitzer is a master at creating otherworldly landscapes awash in strangeness. While he writes without the ornate prose of Clark Ashton Smith, his lands beyond the waking world are as deeply weird and resonant. MotS is the filled with the substance of dreams and nightmares. I am doing insufficient justice to The Mask of the Sorcerer. The story is presented as the book Sekenre writes in order to be able to remember his family, his youth, and what he did between the past and now. The Mask of the Sorcerer is a fantasy novel by Darrell Schweitzer.
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