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Pirate Freedom(Reprint)
by Gene Wolfe
Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2010 by Tor Books
Bargain Price
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-1879-4, ISBN: 0-7653-1879-2

"It starts with a confession from a priest. His past has reached further back than what many would consider possible. Before he was a priest, he was the pirate Captain Cristofo, and before he was a pirate, he was just Chris, a boy living in a monastery in Cuba the day after tomorrow.One day Chris realizes that he is not meant for the monastery he has grown up in, and leaves. On the streets of Havana everything looks strange and out-of-da ..."






The Knight(Updated)
Book One of The Wizard Knight
by Gene Wolfe
Paperback, 544 Pages, Published 2005 by Tor Fantasy
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-4701-5, ISBN: 0-7653-4701-6

"A young man in his teens is transported from our world to a magical realm that contains seven levels of reality. Very quickly transformed by magic into a grown man of heroic proportions, he takes the name Abel and sets out on a quest to find the sword that has been promised to him, a sword he will get from a dragon, the one very special blade that will help him fulfill his life ambition to become a knight and a true hero. Inside, howeve ..."






On Blue's Waters(1st Edition)
Volume One of 'The Book of the Short Sun'
by Gene Wolfe
Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2000 by Tor Books
Mobipocket_Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-87257-1, ISBN: 0-312-87257-7

"On Blue's Waters is the start of a major new work by Gene Wolfe, the first of three volumes that comprise The Book of the Short Sun, which takes place in the years after Wolfe's four-volume Book of the Long Sun. Horn, the narrator of the earlier work, now tells his own story. Though life is hard on the newly settled planet of Blue, Horn and his family have made a decent life for themselves. But Horn is the only one who can locate the gr ..."






Interlibrary Loan
(A Borrowed Man 2)
by Gene Wolfe
Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2020 by Tor Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-250-24236-5, ISBN: 1-250-24236-3






A Borrowed Man(1st Edition)
A Novel
by Gene Wolfe
Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2015 by Tor Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-8114-9, ISBN: 0-7653-8114-1

"A Borrowed Man: a new science fiction novel, from Gene Wolfe, the celebrated author of the Book of the New Sun series.It is perhaps a hundred years in the future, our civilization is gone, and another is in place in North America, but it retains many familiar things and structures. Although the population is now small, there is advanced technology, there are robots, and there are clones.E. A. Smithe is a borrowed person. He is a clone w ..."






The Sorcerer's House(Reprint)
by Gene Wolfe
Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2011 by Tor Books
Bargain Price
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-2459-7, ISBN: 0-7653-2459-8

"In a contemporary town in the American Midwest where he has no connections, an educated man recently released from prison is staying in a motel. He writes letters to his brother and to others, including a friend still in jail. When he meets a real estate agent who tells him he is the heir to a huge old house, long empty, he moves in, though he is too broke to even buy furniture, and is immediately confronted by supernatural and fantasti ..."






An Evil Guest(1st Edition)
by Gene Wolfe
Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2009 by Tor Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-2134-3, ISBN: 0-7653-2134-3

"Lovecraft meets Blade Runner in a stand-alone supernatural horror novel. Gene Wolfe can write in whatever genre he wants--and always with superb style and profound depth. Now following his World Fantasy Award winner, Soldier of Sidon, and his stunning Pirate Freedom, Wolfe turns to the tradition of H. P. Lovecraft and the weird science tale of supernatural horror.Set a hundred years in the future, An Evil Guest is the story of an actres ..."






Soldier of Sidon(1st Edition)
by Gene Wolfe
Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2006 by Tor Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-1664-6, ISBN: 0-7653-1664-1

"Latro forgets everything when he sleeps. Writing down his experiences every day and reading his journal anew each morning gives him a poignantly tenuous hold on himself, but his story's hold on readers is powerful indeed. The two previous novels, combined in Latro in the Mist (Soldier of the Mist and Soldier of Arete) are generally considered classics of contemporary fantasy. Latro now finds himself in Egypt, a land of singing girls, o ..."






Strange Travelers(1st Edition)
New Selected Stories
by Gene Wolfe
Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2001 by Orb Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-87278-6, ISBN: 0-312-87278-X

"If she was right, he reflected, somewhere in his memory there was a vast reservoir of unremembered dreams; he searched for it, but it was not there. A touch woke him. The same nurse was bending over his bed. "Mister Benson?" He blinked. "Would you do me a favor, Nurse? A great favor?" That surprised her. " Certainly, if I can." "Call me Tim." Involuntarily, she glanced at the door. "It says Otis Benson. That's the name we have you d ..."






In Green's Jungles(1st Edition)
(Book of the Short Sun, Book 2)
by Gene Wolfe
Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2001 by Tor
Mobipocket_Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-87363-9, ISBN: 0-312-87363-8

"Gene Wolfe has stymied and delighted smart science fiction readers for years. His complex, multilayered narratives, untrustworthy narrators, and puzzle-box characters send those of us who like that sort of thing into paroxysms of thrilling speculation, re-reading, and just plain guessing what it all means. In Green's Jungles is the middle book of Wolfe's opus trilogy, The Book of the Short Sun (the first is On Blue's Waters). It is ..."






Shadow & Claw(5th Edition)
The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'
by Gene Wolfe
Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 1994 by Orb Books
Mobipocket_Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-89017-9, ISBN: 0-312-89017-6

"The Book of the New Sun is unanimously acclaimed as Gene Wolfe's most remarkable work, hailed as "a masterpiece of science fantasy comparable in importance to the major works of Tolkien and Lewis" by Publishers Weekly, and "one of the most ambitious works of speculative fiction in the twentieth century" by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Shadow & Claw brings together the first two books of the tetralogy in one volume:The Sh ..."






The New Atlantis and Other Novellas of Science Fiction(1st Edition)
by Gene Wolfe, James Tiptree Jr., Robert Silverberg
Hardcover, 182 Pages, Published 1975 by Hawthorn Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-8015-5359-2, ISBN: 0-8015-5359-8

"The New Atlantis and Other Novellas of Science FictionIncludes The New Atlantis, by Ursula K. Le Guin (nominated, 1975 Nebula Award, 1976 Hugo Award; 1976 Locus Poll Award, Best Novelette (Place: 1)); A Momentary Taste of Being, by James Tiptree, Jr. (nominated, 1975 Nebula Award; 1976 Locus Poll Award, Best Novella (Place: 7)); Silhouette, by Gene Wolfe (1976 Locus Poll Award, Best Novella (Place: 9)).Keywords: SF"






The Wizard Knight
(comprising the Knight and the Wizard) (Paperback)
by Gene Wolfe
Paperback, Published 2020 by Tor Books, United States
ISBN-13: 978-1-250-23744-6, ISBN: 1-250-23744-0






Interlibrary Loan
by Gene Wolfe
240 Pages, Published 2020 by Tor Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-250-24268-6, ISBN: 1-250-24268-1

"Interlibrary Loan is the brilliant follow-up to A Borrowed Man: the final work of fiction from multi-award winner and national literary treasure Gene Wolfe Hundreds of years in the future our civilization is shrunk down but we go on."






The The Book of the New Sun
The Book Of The New Sun: Volume 1 Shadow and Claw Volume 1 (S.F. Masterworks)
by Gene Wolfe
Paperback, 608 Pages, Published 1800 by Gollancz; Edition (2000-03-16)
ISBN-13: 978-1-4732-1197-1, ISBN: 1-4732-1197-2

"One of the most acclaimed "science fantasies" ever, Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun (1980-83) is a long, magical novel in four volumes. Shadow and Claw contains the first two, The Shadow of the Torturer and The Claw of the Conciliator, which respectively won the World Fantasy and Nebula awards. This is the first-person narrative of Severian the lowly apprentice torturer, blessed and cursed with a photographic memory, whose travels ..."






Book of the Long Sun Ser.
Lake of the Long Sun
by Gene Wolfe
352 Pages, Published 2015 by Tor Science Fiction
ISBN-13: 978-1-4299-6620-7, ISBN: 1-4299-6620-3

"If I have performed the funeral rites of a spy, and when it becomes known, my risk will be substantially increased, and thus—” “I didn't, Patera! Orpine wasn't a spy. I was talking about myself—talking like I was somebody else. It's a bad habit I ..."






A Borrowed Man
A Novel
by Gene Wolfe
304 Pages, Published 2015 by Macmillan
ISBN-13: 978-1-4668-7799-3, ISBN: 1-4668-7799-5

"A Borrowed Man: a new science fiction novel from Gene Wolfe, the celebrated author of the Book of the New Sun series."






The Land Across(1st Edition)
by Gene Wolfe
Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2014 by Tor Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-3596-8, ISBN: 0-7653-3596-4

"An American writer of travel guides in need of a new location chooses to travel to a small and obscure Eastern European country. The moment Grafton crosses the border he is in trouble, much more than he could have imagined. His passport is taken by guards, and then he is detained for not having it. He is released into the custody of a family, but is again detained. It becomes evident that there are supernatural agencies at work, but the ..."






The Land Across(1st Edition)
by Gene Wolfe
Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2013 by Tor Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-3595-1, ISBN: 0-7653-3595-6

"An American writer of travel guides in need of a new location chooses to travel to a small and obscure Eastern European country. The moment Grafton crosses the border he is in trouble, much more than he could have imagined. His passport is taken by guards, and then he is detained for not having it. He is released into the custody of a family, but is again detained. It becomes evident that there are supernatural agencies at work, but the ..."






Home Fires(Reprint)
by Gene Wolfe
Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2012 by Tor Books
Mobipocket_Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-2819-9, ISBN: 0-7653-2819-4

"Gene Wolfe takes us to a future North America at once familiar and utterly strange. A young man and woman, Skip and Chelle, fall in love in college and marry, but she is enlisted in the military, there is a war on, and she must serve her tour of duty before they can settle down. But the military is fighting a war with aliens in distant solar systems, and her months in the service will be years in relative time on Earth. Chelle returns t ..."



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