Litany of the Long Sun by Gene Wolfe (English) Paperback Book

Description: Litany of the Long Sun by Gene Wolfe In the first two books of the series "The Book of the Long Sun," young priest Patera Silk tries to satisfy the gods living within the Whorl, a starship world sent from Urth to colonize a distant planet, while trying to save his own parish. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Litany of the Long Sun contains the full texts of Nightside the Long Sun and Lake of the Long Sun, that together make up the first half of The Book of the Long Sun. This great work is set on a huge generation starship in the same future as the classic Book of the New Sun (also available in two volumes from Orb). Author Biography Gene Wolfe (1931-2019) was the Nebula Award-winning author of The Book of the New Sun tetralogy in the Solar Cycle, as well as the World Fantasy Award winners The Shadow of the Torturer and Soldier of Sidon. He was also a prolific writer of distinguished short fiction, which has been collected in such award-winning volumes as Storeys from the Old Hotel and The Best of Gene Wolfe. A recipient of the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, the Edward E. Smith Memorial Award, and six Locus Awards, among many other honors, Wolfe was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2007, and named Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2012. Review "Today quite possibly the most important writer in the SF field." --The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction "Gene Wolfe is as good a writer as there is today....I feel a little bit like a musical contemporary attempting to tell people whats good about Mozart." --Chicago Sun-Times "Wolfe is quite simply a superb writer." --The Washington Post Book World "Gene Wolfe is a national treasure." --Damon Knight "Wolfe is our Melville." --Ursula K. Le Guin Review Quote Wolfe is quite simply a superb writer. Excerpt from Book Litany of the Long Sun Nightside the Long Sun This book is dedicated to Joe Mayhew for at least a dozen reasons. 1 The Manteion on Sun Street Enlightenment came to Patera Silk on the ball court; nothing could ever be the same after that. When he talked about it afterward, whispering to himself in the silent hours of the night as was his custom--and once when he told Maytera Marble, who was also Maytera Rose--he said that it was as though someone who had always been behind him and standing (as it were) at both his shoulders had, after so many years of pregnant silence, begun to whisper into both his ears. The bigger boys had scored again, Patera Silk recalled, and Horn was reaching for an easy catch when those voices began and all that had been hidden was displayed. Few of these hidden things made sense, nor did they wait upon one another. He, young Patera Silk (that absurd clockwork figure), watched outside a clockwork show whose works had stopped--tall Horn reaching for the ball, his flashing grin frozen in forever. --dead Patera Pike mumbling prayers as he slit the throat of a speckled rabbit he himself had bought. --a dead woman in an alley off Silver Street, and the people of the quarter. --lights beneath everyones feet, like cities low in the night sky. (And, oh, the rabbits warm blood drenching Patera Pikes cold hands.) --proud houses on the Palatine. --Maytera Marble playing with the girls, and Maytera Mint wishing she dared. (Old Maytera Rose praying alone, praying to Scalding Scylla in her palace under Lake Limna.) --Feather falling, not so lightly as his name implied, shoved aside by Horn, not yet quite prone on the crumbling shiprockblocks, though shiprock was supposed to last until the end of the whorl. --Viron and the lake, crops withering in the fields, the dying fig and the open, empty sky. All this and much else besides, lovely and appalling, blood red and living green, yellow, blue, white, and velvet black, with minglings of other colors and of colors he had never known. Details ISBN0312872917 Author Gene Wolfe Short Title LITANY OF THE LONG SUN Series Book of the Long Sun Language English ISBN-10 0312872917 ISBN-13 9780312872915 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY FIC Year 2000 Residence Barrington, IL, US DOI 10.1604/9780312872915 Series Number 5 Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2000-04-01 NZ Release Date 2000-04-01 US Release Date 2000-04-01 UK Release Date 2000-04-01 Pages 543 Publisher St Martins Press Publication Date 2000-04-01 Imprint Tor Books Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:7068570;

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