The Wizard Knight

By Gene Wolfe,

Book cover of The Wizard Knight

Book description

“Gene Wolfe is the smartest, subtlest, most dangerous writer alive today, in genre or out of it. This book [is] important and wonderful.” —Neil Gaiman on The Knight. A novel in two volumes, The Wizard Knight is in the rare company of works of fantasy like The Once and Future…

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Why read it?

1 author picked The Wizard Knight as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

The Wizard Knight is an underrated classic of fantasy. While Gene Wolfe's solar cycle books (particularly The Book of the New Sun) get lots of love and attention for their narrative complexity and depth, The Wizard Knight is off in the corner doing magic tricks and handstands hoping someone will notice. This was simultaneously an immersive and entertaining fantasy adventure and a devious puzzle-box of a book.

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