Soldier of the Mist (Latro Series #1)

by Gene Wolfe

Overview

The first volume of Gene Wolfe's powerful story of Latro, a Roman mercenary who received a head injury that deprived him of his short-term memory. In return it gave him the ability to converse with supernatural creatures, gods and goddesses who invisibly inhabit the ancient landscape.


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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781466828513
Publisher:	Tor Publishing Group
Publication date:	09/15/1986
Series:	Latro Series , #1
Sold by:	Macmillan
Format:	eBook
Pages:	335
Sales rank:	205,431
File size:	642 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 premise of Wolfe's tantalizing last novel, Free Live Free, is reworked in his new fantasy, the first volume in a new series. Each features a motley group that forms around one person whose occult talents allow them all to pursue the supernatural. On both quests, spiritual rewards tangle with earthly ones. Latro, the protagonist here, is a soldier in fifth century B.C. Greece whose battle wounds have erased his memory but given him the ability to converse with the gods. From slave to sailor to honored but involuntary guest of a warrior king, Latro's first-person account of his pilgrimage through the still-raging Persian Wars provides a fresh eye on the ancient world. The device of his amnesia and the setting (a culture that believes in godsbut believes them to be as fickle as mortals) help vivify Wolfe's theme: the search for absolutes, for transcendence in a world whose values are unfixed and relative. Although this is sometimes more puzzling than challenging, and the story progresses in fits and starts, its surprising turns and Wolfe's feeling for his variously lost, larcenous, venal and valiant characters keep the reader intrigued. (November 3)

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