Nightside the Long Sun (Book of the Long Sun Series #1)

by Gene Wolfe

Overview

Nightside the Long Sun is the beginning of the science fiction masterpiece from Gene Wolfe, Book of the Long Sun

Life on the Whorl, and the struggles and triumphs of Patera Silk to satisfy the demands of the gods, will captivate readers yearning for something new and different in science fiction, for the magic of the future.

Enormous in breadth and scope, Wolfe's ambitious new work opens out into a world of wonders, of gods and humans, aliens and machines, and mysterious adventures far out in space and deep inside the human spirit. It is set on a ship-world whose origins are shrouded in legend, ruled by strange gods who appear infrequently to their worshippers on large screens, and peopled by a human race changed by eons of time, yet familiar.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781466828261
Publisher:	Tor Publishing Group
Publication date:	12/15/1993
Series:	Book of the Long Sun Series , #1
Sold by:	Macmillan
Format:	eBook
Pages:	352
Sales rank:	643,053
File size:	318 KB

About the Author

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.

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.

Editorial Reviews

The tetralogy, "The Book of the New Sun", has met ever with wider critical acclaim during the decade since its completion; here Wolfe inaugurates its quadripartite successor with this quietly absorbing tale of one man's tribulations inside a massive space-faring artificial world known intimately to its inhabitants as Whorl. In a poorer section of an unnamed city within it, young Patera Silk, an overseer of a local religious order, loses control of his church to a wealthy crime lord. In the ensuing struggle to regain control and negotiate a deal with the crime lord, Silk encounters not only the denizens of his society's seamy underworld but his own darker impulses, his "nightside." Writing with his usual colorful description and deft characterization, Wolfe here displays a remarkable gift for creating original religious and magical imagery. His prose echoes with an almost mythic resonance and promises of a wealth of further interesting adventures in the new New Sun saga.

Carl Hays