Synopses & Reviews
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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"The Book of the Long Sun is many books in one each of them more impressive than any book I expect to read in the near future. Thrilling, mysterious, heartbreaking, funny...it releases delayed intonations of pleasure days after you've read it." SF Eye
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"Gene Wolfe is as good a writer as there is today....I feel a little bit like a musical contemporary attempting to tell people what's good about Mozart." Chicago Sun-Times
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"Wolfe is quite simply a superb writer." The Washington Post Book World
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"Today quite possibly the most important writer in the SF field." The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
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"Gene Wolfe is a national treasure." Damon Knight
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"Wolfe is our Melville." Ursula K. Le Guin
Synopsis
This omnibus of Nightside of the Long Sun and Lake of the Long Sun is this "modern-day Homer" (Washington Post Book World) at his best.
Synopsis
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).
About the Author
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.
Table of Contents
Nightside of the Long Sun
Lake of the Long Sun