 First combined edition | |
The Knight The Wizard | |
| Author | Gene Wolfe |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Fantasy |
| Publisher | Tor Books Gollancz (omnibus) |
| Published | 2004 |
The Wizard Knight is a series of epistolary novels written by fantasy and science fiction author Gene Wolfe. It chronicles the journey of Able of the High Heart, an American boy transported to a magical world and supernaturally aged to adulthood. Able (which is not his real name, but rather the name given to him) becomes a knight, and because of his connection with the magical and spiritual elements of the world around him is soon also dubbed a wizard.
Like many of Wolfe's writings, The Wizard Knight is characterized by a first person narrator – in this case, someone who tells events in fragmentary ways, out of order, and with omissions and connections that must be puzzled out later – though he is not an unreliable narrator.
The two volumes in the series are:
- The Knight
- The Wizard