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  | | Castle of Days(Reprint) Short Fiction and Essays by Gene Wolfe Paperback, 448 Pages, Published 1995 by Orb Books Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-312-89042-1, ISBN: 0-312-89042-7 "But I was brought up in Fantasy, and I fear it shows. Their laws differ, you understand. ... What inspires horror is Horror's, just as one who truly loves Big Brother's of Oceania. Orwell's book lies in Horror — some ... What of Tolkien- Lifegiver? Fantasy languished till he brought The Hobbit, dwarves and elves, all three Speaking Peoples linked with humans in The Fellowship of the Ring. Elves ? Aye, Fantasy's got elves still, thou ..." |
 | | Pirate Freedom(Reprint) by Gene Wolfe Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2010 by Tor Books Bargain Price ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-1879-4, ISBN: 0-7653-1879-2 "It starts with a confession from a priest. His past has reached further back than what many would consider possible. Before he was a priest, he was the pirate Captain Cristofo, and before he was a pirate, he was just Chris, a boy living in a monastery in Cuba the day after tomorrow.One day Chris realizes that he is not meant for the monastery he has grown up in, and leaves. On the streets of Havana everything looks strange and out-of-da ..." |
 | | The Knight(Updated) Book One of The Wizard Knight by Gene Wolfe Paperback, 544 Pages, Published 2005 by Tor Fantasy ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-4701-5, ISBN: 0-7653-4701-6 "A young man in his teens is transported from our world to a magical realm that contains seven levels of reality. Very quickly transformed by magic into a grown man of heroic proportions, he takes the name Abel and sets out on a quest to find the sword that has been promised to him, a sword he will get from a dragon, the one very special blade that will help him fulfill his life ambition to become a knight and a true hero. Inside, howeve ..." |
 | | Litany of the Long Sun(1st Edition) Nightside the Long Sun and Lake of the Long Sun (Book of the Long Sun, Books 1 and 2) by Gene Wolfe Paperback, 544 Pages, Published 2000 by Orb Books ISBN-13: 978-0-312-87291-5, ISBN: 0-312-87291-7 "Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun tetralogy ranks as one of the greatest literary achievements of 20th-century science fiction. Litany of the Long Sun, comprising the first two books in the series, is suffused with looming transcendence and theophany. Wolfe takes familiar speculative fiction tropes and embeds them in a tale so complex and wonderful that readers may find themselves wondering whether what they're reading is science ..." |
 | | Shadow and Claw The First Half of the Book of the New Sun (Paperback) by Gene Wolfe Paperback, 512 Pages, Published 2021 by Tor Books, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-250-78125-3, ISBN: 1-250-78125-6 "Wolfe creates a truly alien social order that the reader comes to experience from within...once into it, there is no stopping.” —The New York Times on The Book of the New Sun Gene Wolfe has been called "the finest writer the science ..." |
 | | Sword and Citadel The Second Half of the Book of the New Sun (Paperback) by Gene Wolfe Paperback, 512 Pages, Published 2021 by Tor Books, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-250-78124-6, ISBN: 1-250-78124-8 "Wolfe creates a truly alien social order that the reader comes to experience from within...once into it, there is no stopping.” —The New York Times on The Book of the New Sun This new Tor Essentials edition of Sword & Citadel contains a ..." |
 | | Peace(Reprint) by Gene Wolfe, David Hartwell Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2012 by Orb Books ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-3456-5, ISBN: 0-7653-3456-9 "Originally published in 1975, "Peace "is a spellbinding, brilliant tour de force of the imagination. The melancholy memoir of Alden Dennis Weer, an embittered old man living out his last days in a small midwestern town, the novel reveals a miraculous dimension as the narrative unfolds. For Weer's imagination has the power to obliterate time and reshape reality, transcending even death itself. Powerfully moving and uncompromisingly hones ..." |
 | | A Borrowed Man(1st Edition) A Novel by Gene Wolfe Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2015 by Tor Books ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-8114-9, ISBN: 0-7653-8114-1 "A Borrowed Man: a new science fiction novel, from Gene Wolfe, the celebrated author of the Book of the New Sun series.It is perhaps a hundred years in the future, our civilization is gone, and another is in place in North America, but it retains many familiar things and structures. Although the population is now small, there is advanced technology, there are robots, and there are clones.E. A. Smithe is a borrowed person. He is a clone w ..." |
 | | The Land Across(1st Edition) by Gene Wolfe Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2014 by Tor Books ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-3596-8, ISBN: 0-7653-3596-4 "An American writer of travel guides in need of a new location chooses to travel to a small and obscure Eastern European country. The moment Grafton crosses the border he is in trouble, much more than he could have imagined. His passport is taken by guards, and then he is detained for not having it. He is released into the custody of a family, but is again detained. It becomes evident that there are supernatural agencies at work, but the ..." |
 | | Soldier of Sidon(1st Edition) by Gene Wolfe Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2010 by Tor Books ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-5588-1, ISBN: 0-7653-5588-4 "Latro forgets everything when he sleeps. Writing down his experiences every day and reading his journal anew each morning gives him a poignantly tenuous hold on the world and his own identity. Latro finds himself in Egypt, a land of singing girls, of spiteful and conniving deities. Without his memory, his is unsure of everything, except for his desire to be free of the curse that causes him to forget. The visions Gene Wolfe conjures--of ..." |
 | | An Evil Guest(1st Edition) by Gene Wolfe Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2009 by Tor Books ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-2134-3, ISBN: 0-7653-2134-3 "Lovecraft meets Blade Runner in a stand-alone supernatural horror novel. Gene Wolfe can write in whatever genre he wants--and always with superb style and profound depth. Now following his World Fantasy Award winner, Soldier of Sidon, and his stunning Pirate Freedom, Wolfe turns to the tradition of H. P. Lovecraft and the weird science tale of supernatural horror.Set a hundred years in the future, An Evil Guest is the story of an actres ..." |
 | | Endangered Species(1st Edition) Short Stories by Gene Wolfe Paperback, 512 Pages, Published 2004 by Orb Books Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-1033-0, ISBN: 0-7653-1033-3 "Wolfe, whose tetralogy The Book of the New Sun was the most acclaimed science fiction work of the 1980s, offered his second collection of short fiction in 1990 to universal acclaim. This is a hefty volume of over 30 unforgettable stories in a variety of genres-- SF, fantasy, horror, mainstream-many of them offering variations on themes and situations found in folklore and fairy tales, and including two stories, "The Cat" and "The Map," ..." |
 | | Strange Travelers(1st Edition) New Selected Stories by Gene Wolfe Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2001 by Orb Books ISBN-13: 978-0-312-87278-6, ISBN: 0-312-87278-X "If she was right, he reflected, somewhere in his memory there was a vast reservoir of unremembered dreams; he searched for it, but it was not there. A touch woke him. The same nurse was bending over his bed. "Mister Benson?" He blinked. "Would you do me a favor, Nurse? A great favor?" That surprised her. " Certainly, if I can." "Call me Tim." Involuntarily, she glanced at the door. "It says Otis Benson. That's the name we have you d ..." |
 | | On Blue's Waters(1st Edition) Volume One of 'The Book of the Short Sun' by Gene Wolfe Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2000 by Tor Books Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-312-87257-1, ISBN: 0-312-87257-7 "On Blue's Waters is the start of a major new work by Gene Wolfe, the first of three volumes that comprise The Book of the Short Sun, which takes place in the years after Wolfe's four-volume Book of the Long Sun. Horn, the narrator of the earlier work, now tells his own story. Though life is hard on the newly settled planet of Blue, Horn and his family have made a decent life for themselves. But Horn is the only one who can locate the gr ..." |
 | | Peace(1st Edition) by Gene Wolfe Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 1995 by Orb Books ISBN-13: 978-0-312-89033-9, ISBN: 0-312-89033-8 "Mesmerizing sci-fi from the author the Denver Post calls "one of the literary giants of science fiction." The melancholy memoir of Alden Dennis Weer, an embittered old man living in a small midwestern town, reveals a miraculous dimension. For Weer's imagination has the power to obliterate time and reshape reality, transcending even death itself. " |
 | | Shadow & Claw(5th Edition) The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun' by Gene Wolfe Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 1994 by Orb Books Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-312-89017-9, ISBN: 0-312-89017-6 "The Book of the New Sun is unanimously acclaimed as Gene Wolfe's most remarkable work, hailed as "a masterpiece of science fantasy comparable in importance to the major works of Tolkien and Lewis" by Publishers Weekly, and "one of the most ambitious works of speculative fiction in the twentieth century" by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Shadow & Claw brings together the first two books of the tetralogy in one volume:The Sh ..." |
 | | Sword & Citadel(1st Edition) The Second Half of 'The Book of the New Sun' by Gene Wolfe Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 1994 by Orb Books Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-312-89018-6, ISBN: 0-312-89018-4 "The Book of the New Sun is unanimously acclaimed as Gene Wolfe's most remarkable work, hailed as "a masterpiece of science fantasy comparable in importance to the major works of Tolkien and Lewis" by Publishers Weekly, and "one of the most ambitious works of speculative fiction in the twentieth century" by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Sword & Citadel brings together the final two books of the tetralogy in one volume:The ..." |
 | | The Wizard Knight (comprising the Knight and the Wizard) (Paperback) by Gene Wolfe Paperback, Published 2020 by Tor Books, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-250-23744-6, ISBN: 1-250-23744-0 |
 | | Interlibrary Loan (A Borrowed Man 2) by Gene Wolfe Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2020 by Tor Books ISBN-13: 978-1-250-24236-5, ISBN: 1-250-24236-3 |
 | | The Land Across(1st Edition) by Gene Wolfe Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2013 by Tor Books ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-3595-1, ISBN: 0-7653-3595-6 "An American writer of travel guides in need of a new location chooses to travel to a small and obscure Eastern European country. The moment Grafton crosses the border he is in trouble, much more than he could have imagined. His passport is taken by guards, and then he is detained for not having it. He is released into the custody of a family, but is again detained. It becomes evident that there are supernatural agencies at work, but the ..." |
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