<p><b>¿Gene Wolfe is the smartest, subtlest, most dangerous writer alive today, in genre or out of it. This book [is] important and wonderful.¿ ¿Neil Gaiman on <i>The Knight</i><br><br>A novel in two volumes, <i>The Wizard Knight</i> is in the rare company of works of fantasy like <i>The Once and Future King,</i> or <i>The Wizard of Earthsea,</i> that drink directly from the wellspring of myth. Now it appears in a single-volume edition for the first time.</b><br><br>A young man in his teens is transported from our world to a magical realm consisting of seven levels of reality. Transformed by magic into a grown man of heroic proportions, he takes the name Sir Able of the High Heart and sets out on a quest to find the sword that has been promised to him, the blade that will help him fulfill his ambition to become a true hero¿a true knight. <br><br>Inside, however, Sir Able remains a boy, and he must grow in every sense to survive what lies ahead...<br><br>¿[Wolfe] should enjoy the same r