Review
""The Knight" is astonishing: deep, involving, humane, and absolutely original. This is the start of something big."--Michael Swanwick
"Great fiction flows from Gene Wolfe as from a fountain under high pressure. "The Knight" is his latest superb novel, non-stop action of a surreal majesty. By the time he's done, knights and wizards will never seem the same."--Kim Stanley Robinson
"A grand adventure that combines classic elements with a fresh, highly imaginative approach. I can't wait to read the next book."--Brian Herbert
"Sir Able of the High Heart is unlike any other hero, part Candide and part Conan the Barbarian, and the worlds in which he travels are also appropriately unique. Most writers of the fantastic do their best to create magical lands. Gene Wolfe actually knows how to cross over and -- luckily for us -- invites us to come along with him. Wolfe's version of Faerie is both allusive and elusive, beautiful and fatally glamorous."-Tad Williams
"An absorbing meditation on honor and manhood that's not only Wolfe at his literate best, but romantic, charming, and exciting to boot."-Delia Sherman
"It took me about a page and a quarter to completely enter the world Wolfe creates in "The Knight." Having arrived, I believe I'll spend the rest of my life here." --Steven Brust
"[Gene Wolfe] was producing fiction of immense, Nabokovian rigor and complexity thirty years ago. "The Knight" proves he still is."-Peter Straub
"Gene Wolfe is the smartest, subtlest, most dangerous writer alive today, in genre or out of it. If you don't read this book you'll have missed out on something important and wonderful and all the cool people will laugh at you."--Neil Gaiman
"Gene Wolfe's "The Knight." . . breaks like a thunderclap over the safe suburban sprawl of hfranchise fantasy. This is the real thing, boys and girls. Are you ready? It will scare the daylights out of you, take your breath away, make you laugh aloud and give y --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
"Great fiction flows from Gene Wolfe as from a fountain under high pressure. "The Knight" is his latest superb novel, non-stop action of a surreal majesty. By the time he's done, knights and wizards will never seem the same."--Kim Stanley Robinson
"A grand adventure that combines classic elements with a fresh, highly imaginative approach. I can't wait to read the next book."--Brian Herbert
"Sir Able of the High Heart is unlike any other hero, part Candide and part Conan the Barbarian, and the worlds in which he travels are also appropriately unique. Most writers of the fantastic do their best to create magical lands. Gene Wolfe actually knows how to cross over and -- luckily for us -- invites us to come along with him. Wolfe's version of Faerie is both allusive and elusive, beautiful and fatally glamorous."-Tad Williams
"An absorbing meditation on honor and manhood that's not only Wolfe at his literate best, but romantic, charming, and exciting to boot."-Delia Sherman
"It took me about a page and a quarter to completely enter the world Wolfe creates in "The Knight." Having arrived, I believe I'll spend the rest of my life here." --Steven Brust
"[Gene Wolfe] was producing fiction of immense, Nabokovian rigor and complexity thirty years ago. "The Knight" proves he still is."-Peter Straub
"Gene Wolfe is the smartest, subtlest, most dangerous writer alive today, in genre or out of it. If you don't read this book you'll have missed out on something important and wonderful and all the cool people will laugh at you."--Neil Gaiman
"Gene Wolfe's "The Knight." . . breaks like a thunderclap over the safe suburban sprawl of hfranchise fantasy. This is the real thing, boys and girls. Are you ready? It will scare the daylights out of you, take your breath away, make you laugh aloud and give y --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Product Description
A teenager passes from our world to a magical realm of seven worlds, where he is soon given the body of a mature man of heroic proportions. Forced to act as a man, inside he remains a boy, even as he sets off to find his destined sword and become a knight.
About the Author
Gene Wolfe was born in New York and raised in Texas. He trained as a mechanical engineer, but began to publish short stories in the 1960s. He won a World Fantasy Award for THE SHADOW OF THE TORTURER and a Nebula for THE CLAW OF THE CONCILIATOR. He is a World Fantasy Life Achievement winner.
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