The Book of the Long Sun · #2

Lake of the Long Sun

Gene Wolfe

Science Fiction
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Mythopoeic Fantasy Award nominee 1997.

Patera Silk, a dedicated young augur of the decaying city of Viron, has made a pact with the wealthy, sinister Blood. In so doing, he finds that he has embarked upon a quest that begins to reveal to him the hidden secrets and true nature of his world, a huge starship illuminated and warmed by the artificial Long Sun.

Silk's searching takes him to Lake Limna and a shrine that conceals an entrance to the subsurface passages of the ship, to rooms that contain strange machines and and stranger beings, to rooms with windows...

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1994
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Gene Wolfe

Gene Rodman Wolfe (1931-2019) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He was noted for his dense, allusive prose as well as the strong influence of his Catholic faith. He was a prolific short-story writer and novelist and won many science fiction and fantasy literary awards. Wolfe is best known for his Book of the New Sun series (four volumes, 1980–83), the first part of his "Solar Cycle". In 1998, Locus magazine ranked it the third-best fantasy novel published before 1990 based on a poll of subscribers that considered it and several other series as single entries.