Wilson manages to pay tribute to the long history of Sword and Sorcery whilst adding twists and elements that are all his own. In order to protect his comrades and save the man he loves, Demane must stop holding back as he has been his whole life and must embrace his own godhood.
To do so they must cross the Wildeeps, a land of chaos which is haunted by a terrible necromantic monster that feeds on people. The story focuses on Demane and the Captain, lovers and descendants of the departed gods who make a living leading a group of mercenaries guarding caravans of merchants making the perilous journey from the Station at Mother of Waters to the Kingdom of Olorum in the south. The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps is firmly rooted in the tradition of Sword and Sorcery, connecting it back to the very roots of the fantasy genre, yet in its diverse cast, its command of African American dialect, its deconstruction of masculinity and its exploration of bisexuality and gay love, it could not be more attuned to the present, and lays out a blueprint of themes and ideas the genre may explore in the future. In The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps (2015), his first work of longer fiction, he continues to combine the fantastic and the formally experimental into intriguing new shapes. Kai Ashante Wilson is a promising new writer whose novelette “The Devil In America” is a brutal and excoriating exploration of the legacy of slavery in the USA and the treatment of African Americans that persists to this day, all told in an innovative mix of metafiction and mythology. You’re sworn to better work than murder.” And all who claim to follow the principle must have hands loath and cold when it comes time to kill.
Through deep time the universe complicates, all things whatsoever arising from the mother quantum, precisely so this man (writhing now on Demane’s spearpoint) might enjoy sentience, choice, and love.
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