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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 9780312872915 Books

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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 9780312872915 Books

My third favorite of the Sun tetralogies. New Sun is first followed by Short Sun. But it's Gene Wolfe and I've never read anything by him I didn't love. The print here is very small. Unless you have perfect eyesight you'll need a lot of light and glasses but it's well made and the print is good.


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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 9780312872915 Books Reviews

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My personal favorite of Wolfe's cycles.
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. The plot is more involved than it appears, and a rereading of Wolfe always yields surprising and rewarding results. This series serves as an interesting counterpoint to the transformation of Severian in the Book of the New Sun from torturer to Messiah. Also, this the characters presented in this work are pivotal in Wolfe's amazing Book of the Short Sun which begins with "On Blue's Waters", a truly phenomenal reading experience.
A classic. Gene Wolfe has a sly and erudite sense of humor, and a rich classical education to draw upon.
very good
The story is of Patera Silk, a devout priest whose future is enmeshed with the gods he serves, takes place within the Whorl, a giant, cylindrical starship that has traveled for generations and is faced with political rebellion and war. Through a series of strange events, Silk finds himself caught up in intrigue and espionage, running against a major crime lord, befriending a cyborg soldier, and encountering at least one of the gods of Mainframe. All of the characters are rich in detail and truly engaging. Oreb the talking bird is my favorite! The books of the Long Sun stand on their own but is also part of the universe of the books of the Short Sun.
The mysteries in the Book of the Long Sun are clear (though abstract at times, rewards the reader with repeated reading). THE LONG SUN gradually introduces a plot that will later shakeup the city of its setting and by the end of the four-volume work totally change the Whorl in which the characters live. The transformation of Silk from naive dogmatic priest to a secular authority of sophisitication is interesting and enlightening. These stories are a part of me and will stay with you too long after you've read them. HIGHLY RECOMMEND.
I first started reading Gene Wolfe a couple years back when I read his New Sun books. I was impressed by the original tetralogy - The Shadow of the Torturer, The Claw of the Conciliator, The Sword of the Lictor and The Citadel of the Autarch - while I was less awed by his follow-up, The Urth of the New Sun. It was clear, however, that Wolfe is a good writer who understands what makes science fiction/fantasy writing stand out interesting characterization, exotic settings and well-constructed plots, with an avoidance of the regular genre cliches.

The Book of the Long Sun is another Wolfe tetralogy that demonstrates that a decade after his New Sun books, Wolfe is still in top form. Litany of the Long Sun comprises the first two books of the four Nightside the Long Sun and Lake of the Long Sun. The volume opens with a young man named Silk getting a divine vision. Silk is a patera - a rough equivalent of a priest - in some sort of far future space colony referred to as the Whorl. This world is clearly artificial and is illuminated by a long glowing light that is the Long Sun of the title.

Although seeming set in the future, in many ways things have regressed technologically, and the Whorl is now filled with city-states that are often at odds with each other. The people worship a series of gods that are vaguely reminiscent of the Greek or Roman gods. In particular, there are nine deities that require worship and a number of minor gods. One such god, the Outsider, is responsible for Silk's vision.

This vision will lead Silk on a series of adventures as he tries to save his manteion (roughly, a church) from purchase by a shady yet wealthy man named Blood. These adventures will teach him much about the nature of his world and the gods that inhabit it.

There is a lot that goes on in this first volume, and the plotting is intricate enough that I have only scratched the surface. Since really each book is merely a segment in the entire story, it is hard to review them (or even Litany) individually; in a way, it is like reviewing individual chapters in a novel. But everything that I've read in this story thus far (that is, the whole Litany), shows that this is another good work by Wolfe, on a caliber with his New Sun works. This, so far, seems to be really good science fiction (with a few dashes of fantasy).
My third favorite of the Sun tetralogies. New Sun is first followed by Short Sun. But it's Gene Wolfe and I've never read anything by him I didn't love. The print here is very small. Unless you have perfect eyesight you'll need a lot of light and glasses but it's well made and the print is good.