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	The Book of the Long Sun
		Nightside the Long Sun and Lake of the Long Sun
		When the new books' hero Patera Silk, teacher and priest, is touched by a god, it is not one of the nine chief gods of Mainframe who gives him enlightenment and purpose, but the shadowy (though known and accepted) Outsider.
		Book three of The Book of the Long Sun is as crammed as the first two.
	www.ansible.co.uk /writing/longsun.html (2372 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Shadow & Claw : The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun' (New Sun) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Urth of the New Sun : The sequel to 'The Book of the New Sun' (New Sun) by Gene Wolfe
		Litany of the Long Sun: Nightside the Long Sun and Lake of the Long Sun (Book of the Long Sun, Books 1 and 2) by Gene Wolfe
		Lake of the Long Sun (The Book of the Long Sun, Bk.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312890176?v=glance (2965 words)

	The Book of the New Sun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Book of the New Sun is a novel (initially published in four volumes) written by fantasy and science fiction author Gene Wolfe chronicling the journey of Severian, an apprentice torturer exiled from the Guild of Torturers for committing the one unforgiveable act, to the highest position in the land.
		There is also a sequel to the series called The Urth of the New Sun (nominated for the 1988 Hugo Award and Nebula Award), which takes place several years after the events of The Book of the New Sun.
		The New Sun series belongs to the Dying Earth subgenre (a title inspired by Jack Vance's popular Dying Earth series), a kind of science fiction set in the distant future when the Sun is dying, set against a background of mysterious and obscure powers and events.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Book_of_the_New_Sun (443 words)

	Gene Wolfe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The first, The Book of the Long Sun, consists of the novels Nightside the Long Sun (1993), Lake of the Long Sun (1994), Caldé of the Long Sun (1994), and Exodus From the Long Sun (1996).
		These books follow the priest of a small parish as he becomes wrapped up in political intrigue and revolution in his city-state.
		The three Sun works (The Book of the New Sun, The Book of the Long Sun, and The Book of the Short Sun), generally thought to be his most popular writing, are often collectively referred to as the "Solar Cycle".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gene_Wolfe (1105 words)

	The Book of the Long Sun@Everything2.com
		The Book of the Long Sun (1993-1996) is a massive, masterful four-volume novel by Gene Wolfe.
		Like all of Wolfe's work, The Book of the Long Sun is vast in its scope, an exploration of the problems of faith and skepticism, human nature, sin and the problem of evil.
		Where The New Sun is picaresque, all vivid images, otherworldly places, and a few symbolically loaded, perhaps entirely allegorical characters, The Long Sun is an urban novel with a sprawling, lived-in feel to it, focused more on the interplay of its characters and the complicated network of responsibilities and pleasures that make a civic life.
	www.everything2.com /index.pl?node_id=1424755 (1083 words)

	Lupine Nuncio - Gene Wolfe News and Rumors
		These books are currently available in three trade paperback editions from Orb, an imprint of Tor books.
		The books chronicle his beginning life as part of his guild, through his exile and wanderings and meetings with the strange cultures and inhabitants of the Earth of the very distant future.
		The Book of the Long Sun chronicles the life of Patera Silk, a priest of the gods of Mainframe (programs that appear in the computer terminal Windows of the vessel) who is contacted by a forgotten god, the Outsider, who gives him a mission.
	mysite.verizon.net /~vze2tmhh/wolfe.html (1570 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Epiphany of the Long Sun: Calde of the Long Sun and Exodus from the Long Sun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Amazon.ca: Books: Epiphany of the Long Sun: Calde of the Long Sun and Exodus from the Long Sun
		Epiphany of the Long Sun: Calde of the Long Sun and Exodus from the Long Sun
		Epiphany of the Long Sun: Calde of the Long Sun and Exodus from the Long Sun (Book of the Long Sun, Books 3 and 4)
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0312860722 (1301 words)

	long * Turn South at the Next... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		From airship to spaceship Long Island in aviation and spaceflight.
		Calde of the Long Sun Book of the Long Sun, Vol 3.
		Mystery of the Long Lost 8th 9th and 10th Books of Moses Together With the Legend That Was of Moses and 44 Keys to Universal Pow.
	www.literatureweb.org /liteuuulong.html (1578 words)

	Litany of the Long Sun: Nightside the Long Sun and Lake of the Long Sun (Book of the Long Sun, Books 1 and 2) :: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Litany of the Long Sun: Nightside the Long Sun and Lake of the Long Sun (Book of the Long Sun, Books 1 and 2)
		Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun tetralogy ranks as one of the greatest literary achievements of 20th-century science fiction.
		It is not necessary to have read Wolfe's Book of the New Sun series, which takes place many centuries earlier, to enjoy the Long Sun novels, but keen-eyed readers will find many clues as to the origin of the Whorl and its gods in those stories.
	forevergeek.com /store/apple/0312872917/index.php (1152 words)

	Five Steps Towards Briah: Gene Wolfe's The Book of the Long Sun, by Nick Gevers
		Gene Wolfe's The Book of the Long Sun
		Thus, Nightside the Long Sun sees Silk attempt to protect his manteion, and the people that it serves, by means of dealings with the criminal, Blood; the conventions of crime fiction come into play, only to be exhausted.
		This is the pattern underlying The Book of the Long Sun's bustling plot.
	home.austin.rr.com /lperson/briah.html (4406 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Litany of the Long Sun: The First Half of 'The Book of the Long Sun' (Book of the Long Sun) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Amazon.co.uk: Books: Litany of the Long Sun: The First Half of 'The Book of the Long Sun' (Book of the Long Sun)
		The Book of the Long Sun is the fullest expression of Donne's sentiment I know of in English prose.
		Wolfe has managed, and his progress and development through the turbulent events of the novel means by the end his stature has metaphorically and literally cracked the bounds of the world in which he was born.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0312872917 (453 words)

	The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe, Volume 1 of The Book of the New Sun
		Shadow of the Torturer is book one of four in the tightly connected The Book of the New Sun series.
		Tales supposedly from The Book of Urth and Sky, the book carried by the protagonist Severian, were published in chapbooks The Boy who Hooked the Sun (1985), and Empires of Foliage and Flower (1987).
		Book of the Long Sun omnibus editions: Litany of the Long Sun (1994, books 1 and 2), and Epiphany of the Long Sun (1997, books 3 and 4).
	members.aol.com /siure/wolfe.htm (1162 words)

	book :: The 5th Head of Cerberus : Three Novellas , By Gene Wolfe::Gene Wolfe ::On Blue s Waters The Book of the Short ...
		Litany of the Long Sun Nightside the Long Sun and Lake of the Long Sun Wolfe Gene Book of the Long Sun
		Sword Citadel The Second Half of the Book of the New Sun The Sword of the Lictor and the Citadel of the Autarch
		Calde of the Long Sun The Book of the Long Sun V 3
	www.bookbestsellers.net /181439gene_wolfe.html (416 words)

	Books Ron Read in 2000
		A year in (parentheses) is the book's publication date; a date in [brackets] is the date I finished the book.
		Gene Wolfe, Caldé of the Long Sun (1995)...
		Although I have had to be creative with books that are not readily available (such as self-published or small-press books, or books in Esperanto), usually the purchasing links will point to the online home of the brick-and-mortar Powell's City of Books, in Portland, Oregon.
	ron.ludism.org /books/books2000.html (823 words)

	Nick Gevers - Five Steps towards Briah: Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun
		But it is a mark of Wolfe's achievement that, while the biography or Book of Silk (as the narrator thought of terming it) consistently echoes Severian's autobiography, the differences between the two texts are as striking as the similarities, so that they are always in complex, probing dialogue.
		The temporal and spatial intimacy of most of Long Sun is compressive, a preparation for the sudden expansion of vision that the final exodus brings; the flight to the outside is a sort of Big Bang, in which the false, blasphemous universe of the Whorl gives way to the true, God-inspired cosmos of Briah.
		Thus, Nightside the Long Sun sees Silk attempt to protect his manteion, and the people that it serves, by means of dealings with the criminal, Blood; the conventions of crime fiction come into play, only to be exhausted.
	artsweb.bham.ac.uk /jlaidlow/ultan/briah.htm (4422 words)

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		A one hour video presentation of the discovery of European inscriptions relating to sun worship in America, long before the time of Columbus.
		If you are interested in a video that will open the door for you to discuss biblical matters with your friends and family, you may find this video tape helpful.
	www.toolong.com /order_form.htm (547 words)

	Powell's Books - Epiphany of the Long Sun: Book of the Long Sun, Books 3 and 4 (Book of the Long Sun # 3 & 4) by ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Powell's Books - Epiphany of the Long Sun: Book of the Long Sun, Books 3 and 4 (Book of the Long Sun # 3 and 4) by Gene Wolfe
		Calde of the Long Sun and Exodus from the Long Sun
		The Urth of the New Sun: The Sequel to 'The Book of the New Sun'
	www.powells.com /biblio?isbn=0312860722 (391 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: In Green's Jungles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Even so, though In Green's Jungles is a mesmerizing book, beautifully written in the comparatively simple prose style he adopted for his Book of the Long Sun (ostensibly told by the same character), and though it is full of action, colour, and many mysteries, it is by no means an appropriate starting point for Wolfe.
		The earliest of these series, The Book of the New Sun, consists of four books plus a sort of pendant, The Urth of the New Sun, while The Book of the Long Sun is a pure tetralogy.
		The Book of the Short Sun is (we are told) narrated by Horn, who was born on the generation ship called the Long Sun Whorl, and who was a teenaged boy during the events of The Book of the Long Sun.
	www.sfsite.com /11a/gj92.htm (1138 words)

	Peter Wright reconsiders the Book of the New Sun
		Long before its inclusion on Millennium's SF Masterworks list, Gene Wolfe's densely allusive four volume The Book of the New Sun (The Shadow of the Torturer (1980), The Claw of the Conciliator (1981), The Sword of the Lictor (1981) and The Citadel of the Autarch (1983)) was acclaimed as one of science fiction's 'masterpieces'.
		Hence, The Book of the New Sun does not invite the reader to marvel at how clever Wolfe can be, but to marvel at his or her own intelligence in perceiving one facet of the elaborate textual game the author plays.
		Thus, The Book of the New Sun may appeal to a post-structuralist reading as it marks a shift from meaning to staging, from the signified to the signifier.
	artsweb.bham.ac.uk /jlaidlow/ultan/botns.htm (3119 words)

	Exodus from the Long Sun (John's Book Pages) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		About the book: Silk finds himself in charge of a nearly bankrupt city that is facing a protracted war.
		Furthermore, he has lost faith in most of the gods and eventually loses faith in several of his friends; this leads to a strange scene where he contemplates jumping from the airship that is taking him to Mainframe.
		At the end of this book (and also at the beginning and in the middle, for careful readers) Wolfe gives us a plot twist that explains the odd structure.
	books.regehr.org /reviews/exodusfromthelongsun.html (200 words)

	Amazon.de: English Books: Litany of the Long Sun: The First Half of 'The Book of the Long Sun' (Book of the Long Sun) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		At the end of a long sequence of events largely outside Patera's control, and through sometimes long exposition (which may come as a relief to some of Wolfe's admiring but normally mystified readers) we learn the apparent fate of our hero.
		Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun, while at first simple, proves every bit as complex as his opus The Book of the New Sun.
		While the third person narration employed in this book is not as ornamented or as difficult as some of his other prose, the character of Silk as he is transformed from a priest to a secular authority (and the subsequent changes brought about through his "enlightenment") are truly fascinating.
	www.amazon.de /exec/obidos/ASIN/0312872917 (1281 words)

	EXODUS FROM THE LONG SUN by Gene Wolfe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Book Four of the Book of the Long Sun
		Exodus from the Long Sun is Gene Wolfe's "avidly awaited" (Booklist) final volume of The Book of the Long Sun, one of the most ambitious SF works of the decade.
		Of the first volume, Nightside the Long Sun, Ursula K. Le Guin said, "An energetic opener-fast-paced, rich and knotty, densely packed with action and imagination." It was a nominee for the Nebula Award as best SF novel.
	www.panix.com /~dgh/Wolfe_EXODUS.html (288 words)

	Book Review: Voyage; Clay's Ark; Exodus from the Long Sun
		The action is strong -- at times brutal and harrowing -- and the ending is both surprising and inherent to what has gone before.
		It's a short book, though, -- only about 200 pages -- and while this, combined with Butler's compact writing style, ensures a tight story, the resultant headlong rush into climax seems to short-change some of the characters -- denying them time to fully resolve their intense inner struggles.
		manages to be a powerful little story with implications about what makes us human that will continue to resonate with readers long after the book is finished.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue36/books.html (1448 words)

	Review: On Blue's Waters by Gene Wolfe
		Silk was apparently the topic of the previous Book of the Long Sun and references to events in that series abound.
		However, because this book is basically the retelling of a legend, albeit by one of the participants, the idea that there is a lot of "common knowledge" that we don't know completely isn't out of line.
		And the rape of Seawrack was reminiscent of Thomas Covanent's rape of Lena in Donaldson's Lord Foul's Bane.
	www.urbanophile.com /arenn/sf/reviews/on-blues-waters.html (920 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Urth of the New Sun : The sequel to 'The Book of the New Sun' (New Sun) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		THE URTH OF THE NEW SUN is a coda to Gene Wolfe's four-volume masterpiece The Book of the New Sun.
		Although The Book of the New Sun was concerned mostly with Severian's internal thoughts, THE URTH OF THE NEW SUN is very much concerned with the universe(s) outside Severian.
		The underlying allegory in the Book of the New Sun is the story of the redemption of one man- Severian- and all men and women on Urth, as represented by him.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312863942?v=glance (2736 words)

	Gene Wolfe
		Born in 1931, on the southwest tip of Long Island, New York, Gene Rodman Wolfe moved frequently as a child, but spent the bulk of his growing up years in Texas.
		The dysfunctional story of human conquest upon two far-flung planets, the book examines issues of identity, individuality, and the ramifications of colonialism upon both the colonized and the colonizer.
		Not surprisingly, after the success and acclaim of the New Sun novels, additional series in the larger saga followed (Book of the Long Sun, Book of the Short Sun).
	www.nndb.com /people/554/000092278 (791 words)

	Blogcritics.org: Gene Wolfe - The Book of the Short Sun
		The "Short Sun" trilogy is a direct sequel to Wolfe's earlier "Book of the Long Sun" tetralogy.
		The Book of the Long Sun is set in a vast generation starship, The Whorl, three hundred years into it's vogage, and concerns the adventures of a novice priest, Silk.
		The the first volume of the Book of the Short Sun, "On Blue's Waters" starts as the story of Horn, the supposed author of Book of the Long Sun, now living on the colony world of Blue.
	blogcritics.org /archives/2002/09/06/125157.php (1165 words)

	Gene Wolfe -- Available Books
		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.
		Litany of the Long Sun : Nightside the Long Sun and Lake of the Long Sun
		The preceding books are sold in association with Amazon.com.
	www.non.com /books/Wolfe_Gene_ca.html (1325 words)

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