Sekenre
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Sekenre: The Book of the Sorcerer
is a collection of linked fantasy short stories by American writer Darrell Schweitzer featuring his dark fantasy protagonist, the child-sorcerer Sekenre. The twelve stories relate various episodes in the life of the immortal sorcerer, who stopped aging physically when he first became a sorcerer while still a child. He confronts various threats and challenges while attempting to maintain some semblance of humanity through the aeons.
Critic Don D'Ammassa called Schweitzer's book "some of the more interesting sword and sorcery style fantasy fiction being published these past few years," and Sekenre "probably Schweitzer's most interesting character, a combination of a child and a powerful sorcerer who has almost ceased to be a human being."
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I think it was in a dream that the five-thousand-year-old boy-child Sekenre explained to me that all had worked out according to his plan, for he could see the future in a limited way, and sought to devour my brother and the Lady Eudochina Kias in the way I had seen, to make their magic his own. For all he had seemed to serve my br……
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