Litany of the Long Sun

The First Half of 'The Book of the Long Sun'

Book of the Long Sun (Volume 5 of 6)

Gene Wolfe

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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).

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Litany of the Long Sun
Nightside the Long SunThis book is dedicated to Joe Mayhew for at least a dozen reasons.1The Manteion on Sun StreetEnlightenment 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

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Gene Wolfe has been called "the finest writer the science fiction world has yet produced" by The Washington Post. A former engineer, he has written numerous books and won a variety of awards for his SF writing.

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Litany of the Long Sun
The First Half of 'The Book of the Long Sun'
Book of the Long Sun (Volume 5 of 6)
Gene Wolfe

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Tom Doherty Associates
Orb Books
April 2000
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ISBN: 9780312872915
ISBN10: 0312872917
5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches, 544 pages
$18.99
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