Gene Wolfe -- Recent and Upcoming Books

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In Green's Jungles (Wolfe, Gene. Book of the Short Sun, V. 2.)
Gene Wolfe / Hardcover / Expected August 2000
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Litany of the Long Sun : Nightside the Long Sun and Lake of the Long Sun
Gene Wolfe / Paperback / Published April 2000
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Strange Travelers
Gene Wolfe / Hardcover / Published January 2000
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Fifteen stories, 199097, all more or less unclassifiable, gathered under an eminently appropriate title: Wolfe's first collection since Endangered Species (1989). The more science fictionflavored entries include: a woman pursued by the robot she helped develop; a collapse-of-civilization yarn about a little boy abandoned in a computerized house; and a strange trio of time-traveling female invaders. Yarns leaning toward fantasy: a far-future campfire horror story; an amusing yarn based on a Russian folk tale; an excruciating dilemma on the road to Hell; a human boy enslaved by the queen of the ...

On Blue's Waters (Book of the Short Sun, Vol. 1)
Gene Wolfe / Hardcover / Published October 1999
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First of a new trilogy and sequel to Wolfe's heavyweight Book of the Long Sun tetralogy (culminating in Exodus from the Long Sun, 1996). Narrator Horn, who previously related the story of a multigeneration starship, the Whorl, and its eventual ruler, Patera Silk, has now settled with his family in the city of New Viron on the planet Blue beneath the Short Sun. But the settlers still need a dynamic, skilled leaderand who better than Silk? So Horn sets sail in a small boat, ready to cross all Blue's oceans to find him. Problem is, Silk was last seen 16 years ago, aboard the Whorl, and by now he ...

Free Live Free
Gene Wolfe / Paperback / Published February 1999
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Weird science fiction in a contemporary setting, here is one of Gene Wolfe's major novels--now back in print! Four people in contemporary Chicago become caught up in searching for the lost treasure of Benjamin Free. Jim Stubb, an out-of-work detective; Madame Serpentina, the occultist; Ozzie Barnes, the salesman; and Candy Garth, the generous and overweight prostitute, are brought together for a time to live in Free's house, a house scheduled for demolition. When the demolition occurs and Free disappears, they make a pact to continue the search.

Lamps on the Brow
Greg Benford, et al / Hardcover / Published August 1998
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The Urth of the New Sun
Gene Wolfe / Paperback / Published December 1997
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Essential reading for any fan of the four-volume "Book of the New Sun". Severian, now the Autarch of Urth, leaves the planet on the huge spaceship of the Heirodules to travel across space and time to face his greatest test--to become the New Sun or be destroyed.

Exodus from the Long Sun
Gene Wolfe / Mass Market Paperback / Published August 1997
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In this final volume of The Book of the Long Sun series, Patera Silk, a young cleric on The Whorl starship, becomes ruler of the city of Viron after going on a mission to save the city's churches. Reprint. NYT. "

The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories : And Other Stories
Gene Wolfe / Paperback / Published August 1997
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A reprint of the now-scarce collection of Wolfe's classic early short stories, this companion volume to Castle of Days presents "some of the best American short stories of the decade" (Ursula K. Le Guin). Gene Wolfe is a two-time winner of the Nebula Award and is author of Peace and The Book of the New Sun.

Castleview
Gene Wolfe / Paperback / Published March 1997
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Arthurian legend collides with Main Street, USA, in Gene Wolfe's classic fantasy adventure. Castleview, Illinois, got its name from occasional sightings of a phantom castle on stormy nights--a place where the barrier between past and present is weak and strange things happen.

Space Opera
Anne McCaffrey(Editor), et al / Mass Market Paperback / Published December 1996
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The minstels of SF serenade readers with this magnificent medley of 20 all-original stories, in which music is the featured performer. From the compelling account of a detective/choral singer whose perfect ear for music aids her in fighting crime to a space beacon keeper who must rely on music to rescue her from impending danger to a photographer on a desolate African shoot searching for a mysterious melody, these evocative and harmonic tales make up a SF symphony you'll never forget.

Exodus from the Long Sun; Book Four of the Book of the Long Sun
Gene Wolfe / Hardcover / Published November 1996
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In the final volume in the series, the Whorl, the huge generation starship sent out from Urth, is discovered to have already reached its destination, and now Patera Silk and the other inhabitants are confronted by an alien race.

The Devil in a Forest
Gene Wolfe / Paperback / Published March 1996
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Back in print after two decades, this fantasy tells of a young man who lives in a village deep in the forest in medieval times. Mark finds himself torn between his hero worship for charming highwayman Wat and his growing suspicion of Wat's cold savagery. And Mother Cloot, who may have sorcerous powers, works in equally suspicious ways--perhaps for evil, perhaps for good.

Storeys from the Old Hotel
Gene Wolfe / Paperback / Published December 1995
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The World Fantasy Award-winning volume, in its first paperback edition. This brilliant collection of 31 remarkable stories from the past two decades contains many of Wolfe's most appealing and accessible works. "A fine collection that showcases the wide range of Wolfe's weird and wonderful talent."--Kirkus Reviews.

Calde of the Long Sun (Book of the Long Sun, Vol 3)
Gene Wolfe / Mass Market Paperback / Published November 1995
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Inspired by the gods, young Silk fights for survival against he shadowy rulers of the city of Viron, who command the technological wonders of the future. Reprint. NYT.

Peace
Gene Wolfe / Paperback / Published July 1995
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Living out his final days in a small midwestern town, an embittered elderly man, Alden Dennis Weer, explores his unique imagination, which has the power to obliterate time and reshape reality. Reprint.

Castle of Days
Gene Wolfe / Paperback / Published April 1995
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This volume brings together two of Wolfe's most sought-after books, long out of print--Gene Wolfe's Book of Days and The Castle of the Otter--and adds to them 39 essays collected here for the first time.

Lake of the Long Sun (The Book of the Long Sun, Bk. 2)
Gene Wolfe / Unknown Binding / Published January 1995
(Publisher Out Of Stock)
The second volume of a four-book series and sequel to the Nebula Award-winning Nightside of the Long Sun. In the far-flung world of The Whorl, a huge generation starship illuminated by an artificial long sun, Patera Silk embraks on a quest of exploration, in which he encounters strange machines, and even stranger people. HC: Tor.

Sword & Citadel : The Second Half of the Book of the New Sun : The Sword of the Lictor and the Citadel of the Autarch
Gene Wolfe / Paperback / Published December 1994
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Unanimously acclaimed as one of the finest works of science fiction ever written, the four-volume epic The Book of the New Sun is now available for the first time this decade. This dramatic adventure follows Severian as he transforms from a ruthless monster to a savior of a world. Sword and Citadel contains the concluding two volumes.

Shadow & Claw : The First Half of the Book of the New Sun : The Shadow of the Torturer/the Claw of the Conciliator
Gene Wolfe / Paperback / Published December 1994
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Gene Wolfe's science fiction masterpiece The Book of the New Sun is now available for the first time in this decade. This critically acclaimed work won both the World Fantasy and Nebula Awards. The saga centers around an orphan whose lifelong quest transforms him from ruthless monster to savior of a world.

The 5th Head of Cerberus : Three Novellas
Gene Wolfe / Paperback / Published April 1994
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A brothel keeper's sons discuss genocide and plot murder; a young alien wanderer is pursued by his shadow double; and a political prisoner tries to prove his identity, not least to himself. Gene Wolfe's first novel consists of three linked sections, all of them elegant broodings on identity, sameness, and strangeness, and all of them set on the vividly evoked colony worlds of Ste. Croix and Ste. Anne, twin planets delicately poised in mutual orbit.

Nightside the Long Sun (Book of the Long Sun, Vol 1)
Gene Wolfe / Unknown Binding / Published December 1993
(Publisher Out Of Stock)
The first volume of a four-book novel of mystery, war and revolution set in a world existing inside a giant spaceship sent from Urth to colonize a distant planet. Wolfe's new work returns to the world of his acclaimed Book of the New Sun and will captivate readers hungry for the magic of the future. HC: Tor.

Pandora by Holly Hollander : A Novel
Gene Wolfe / Paperback / Published July 1993
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Young Wolfe
Gene Wolfe / Hardcover / Published November 1992
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Fugue State/the Death of Dr. Island (Tor Science Fiction Double, No 25)
John M. Ford, Gene Wolfe / Paperback / Published August 1990
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Endangered Species
Gene Wolfe / Paperback / Published March 1990
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There Are Doors
Gene Wolfe / Unknown Binding / Published September 1989
(Publisher Out Of Stock)
There Are Doors is another masterful novel from a truly great science fiction writer. It is the story of a man who falls in love with a goddess from another universe, and his relentless pursuit of her when she returns to her own world.

There Are Doors
Gene Wolfe / Unknown Binding / Published November 1988
(Publisher Out Of Stock)
There Are Doors is another masterful novel from a truly great science fiction writer. It is the story of a man who falls in love with a goddess from another universe, and his relentless pursuit of her when she returns to her own world.

Urth of the New Sun
Gene Wolfe / Mass Market Paperback / Published September 1988
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Tor presents the one-volume sequel to The Book of the New Sun! "Another brilliantly inventive, dense, demanding, at times intellectually stunning effort. Dazzling."--Kirkus. Advertising in Locus and Science Fiction Chronicle. HC: Tor.

Gene Wolfe, Interview/Audio Cassette
Gene Wolfe / Audio Cassette / Published June 1987
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Gene Wolfe Reads 'a Solar Labryinth' and 'the Island of Dr. Death and Other Stories'
Gene Wolfe(Narrator) / Audio Cassette / Published June 1987
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