The Book of the Long Sun Series by Gene Wolfe

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  • Nightside the Long Sun (The Book of the Long Sun #1)
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    Nightside the Long Sun (The Book of the Long Sun #1)

    Gene Wolfe

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings · published 1993

    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.

  • Lake of the Long Sun (The Book of the Long Sun #2)
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    Lake of the Long Sun (The Book of the Long Sun #2)

    Gene Wolfe

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings · published 1994

    When the gods of the Whorl speak to him about the future, clergyman Patera Silk begins a quest to save his church and his people, the citizens of a giant spaceship on a generations-old voyage to a forgotten destiny. Reprint. NYT.

  • Litany of the Long Sun (The Book of the Long Sun #1-2)
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    Litany of the Long Sun (The Book of the Long Sun #1-2)

    Gene Wolfe

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 1994

    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).Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun tetralogy ranks as one of the greatest literary achievements of 20th-century science fiction... more

  • Caldé of the Long Sun (The Book of the Long Sun #3)
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    Caldé of the Long Sun (The Book of the Long Sun #3)

    Gene Wolfe

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings · published 1994

    Gene Wolfe's Nightside the Long Sun launched the magisterial four-volume The Book of the Long Sun. Now the great tale continues in Caldé of the Long Sun. The young, god-inspired Silk, caught in a bloody web of politics and revolution, must fight against the machinations of the shadowy group that rules the city of Viron. The forces of other cities of the great spaceship, The Whorl, become involved... more

  • Exodus from the Long Sun (The Book of the Long Sun #4)
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    Exodus from the Long Sun (The Book of the Long Sun #4)

    Gene Wolfe

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings · published 1996

    Wolfe's recent multi-volume novels have invited interpretation as religious allegory. In the "Book of the Long Sun," the fourth volume of which is Exodus from the Long Sun, religion is at least an inspirational starting point. This book is set on a starship, the Whorl, whose inhabitants have lost track of the fact that they are on a journey. Indeed their origins are mysterious to them, and the starship's vestigial communications system is understood to bring messages from unknown gods... more

  • Epiphany of the Long Sun (The Book of the Long Sun #3-4)
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    Epiphany of the Long Sun (The Book of the Long Sun #3-4)

    Gene Wolfe

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 1996

    The two novels combined in this omnibus (Caldé of the Long Sun and Exodus from the Long Sun) comprise the second half of Gene Wolfe's long novel, The Book of the Long Sun.

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