Sekenre: The Book of the Sorcerer
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| Author | Darrell Schweitzer |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Stephen Fabian |
| Cover artist | Stephen Fabian |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Fantasy |
| Publisher | Wildside Press |
Publication date | 2004 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (paperback) |
| Pages | 239 |
| ISBN | 978-0-8095-1078-8 |
| OCLC | 60348078 |
| Preceded by | The Mask of the Sorcerer |
Sekenre: The Book of the Sorcerer is a collection of fantasy short stories by American writer 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.[1]
The collection consists of twelve stories of Sekenre, originally published from 1994 to 2004 in a number of fantasy fiction magazines. 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.