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Libri di Gene Wolfe su Unilibro.it
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2025 |
 
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La terra al di làAuthor: Wolfe Gene Publisher: Blu Atlantide "Tutte le mappe sono sbagliate". Grafton, un giovane scrittore americano di guide di viaggio, al suo arrivo in un piccolo e oscuro Paese dell'Est Europa viene imprigionato senza alcuna motivazione apparente dalle autorità locali. Il suo passaporto viene sequestrato e lui è affidato alla custodia di una bizzarra coppia di coniugi in una cittadina sulle sponde di un grande lago sul quale circolano strane storie. Comincia così un'avventura inimmaginabile che lo renderà preda di situazioni e incontri sempre più inquietanti e paradossali. Ma chi è, davvero, Grafton? È solo uno scrittore precipitato in un incubo kafkiano, come sostiene, o una pericolosa spia, come insinuano invece i suoi carcerieri? E cosa c'è di reale nelle prodigiose forze sovrannaturali che sembrano agire intorno a lui, mentre polizia segreta e misteriose sette magiche lo ghermiscono per cercare di assicurarsene l'aiuto? Enigmatico, ironico, claustrofobico e spiazzante, "La terra al di là" è considerato uno dei romanzi in assoluto più originali e affascinanti dell'intera opera narrativa di Gene Wolfe. € 20,00
Scontato: € 19,00
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2023 |
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Il libro del nuovo soleAuthor: Wolfe Gene; Scorsone M. (cur.) Publisher: Mondadori Nel mondo desolato di un semibarbarico, remotissimo futuro, tra le ombre di un nuovo Medioevo e gli archeologici residui di un passato che fu già radioso, si muove l'apprendista torturatore Severian, iniziato ai segreti di una casta che ammette come unici adepti i figli delle proprie vittime. Ma Severian commette un errore, imperdonabile: dimostra pietà per una condannata. È così che viene esiliato, lontano dalla Città Immortale, a vagare per terre sconosciute, meditando la riscossa contro l'Autarca. Ambientata in un universo apocalittico, labirintico, onirico, la saga del Nuovo Sole è un grande classico del dark fantasy, il capolavoro di uno degli ultimi grandi autori della fantascienza, paragonato per le sue doti letterarie a Melville e Proust. Curato da Massimo Scorsone, il volume comprende i romanzi L'ombra del torturatore, L'artiglio del conciliatore, La spada del littore, La cittadella dell'autarca e Tyarre del Nuovo Sole, oltre ai racconti inediti Il dio e l'uomo, Il gatto, La mappa, Il ragazzo che pescò il Sole, Imperi di fogliame e fiori, Il gracchio notturno e Dalla culla. € 35,00
Scontato: € 33,25
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1919 |
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Dangerous SeatsAuthor: Eugene Lewis Wolfe III Publisher: Amberley Publishing Local € 29,50
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1917 |
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Pirate FreedomAuthor: Wolfe Gene Publisher: Tor Fantasy € 8,90
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1916 |
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A Borrowed ManAuthor: Wolfe Gene Publisher: Tor Books € 16,10
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NightmaresAuthor: Datlow Ellen (EDT), Nix Garth (CON), Kadrey Richard (CON), Wolfe Gene (CON), Barron Laird (CON) Publisher: Tachyon Pubns From the most acclaimed horror editor in the business comes the most groundbreaking horror of the new millennium. InNightmares, editor extraordinaire Datlow has skillfully reprised her classic anthologyDarkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror. Here you will find iconic authors mingling with unexpected new masters of terror. These tales represent the finest stories of s new era, in which evil both everyday and unfathomable will simplynot go away. In "Ambitious Boys Like You," two inexperienced thieves discover a a residence which makesHome Alone seem like a playground romp. The question of "Is She Wicked? Is She Good?," is asked by concerned parents whose cruel child courts fairy revenge. The "Ash Mouth Man" may be just a legend to girls who wish to waste away - but is he only worth just one kiss? € 15,20
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The Shadow of the Torturer (CD Audiobook)Author: Wolfe Gene, Davis Jonathan (NRT) Publisher: Audible Studios on Brilliance audio € 8,90
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A Borrowed Man (CD Audiobook)Author: Wolfe Gene, Collins Kevin T. (NRT) Publisher: Audible Studios on Brilliance audio € 8,90
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1915 |
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A Borrowed ManAuthor: Wolfe Gene Publisher: Tor Books € 22,10
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1914 |
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The Land AcrossAuthor: Wolfe Gene Publisher: Tor Books 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 they are not in some ways as threatening as the brute forces of bureaucracy and corruption in that country. Is our hero in fact a spy for the CIA? Or is he an innocent citizen caught in a Kafkaesque trap? In The Land Across, Gene Wolfe keeps us guessing until the very end, and after. A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of 2013 € 19,60
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Nebula Awards Showcase 2014Author: Johnson Kij (EDT), Gaiman Neil (CON), Wolfe Gene (CON), Kress Nancy (CON), Robinson Kim Stanley (CON) Publisher: Pyr Books The latest volume of the prestigious anthology series, published annually across six decades! The Nebula Awards Showcase volumes have been published annually since 1966, reprinting the winning and nominated stories in the Nebula Awards, voted on by the members of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America® . The editor selected by SFWA's anthology committee (chaired by Mike Resnick) is American fantasy writer Kij Johnson, author of three novels and associate director of the Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas. This year's Nebula winners, and expected contributors, are Kim Stanley Robinson, Nancy Kress, Andy Duncan, and Aliette de Bodard, with E.C. Myers winning the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy Book. € 16,10
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1913 |
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The Land AcrossAuthor: Wolfe Gene Publisher: St Martins Pr 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 they are not in some ways as threatening as the brute forces of bureaucracy and corruption in that country. Is our hero in fact a spy for the CIA? Or is he an innocent citizen caught in a Kafkaesque trap? In The Land Across, Gene Wolfe keeps us guessing until the very end, and after. € 21,80
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1912 |
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PeaceAuthor: Wolfe Gene Publisher: Orb Books Originally published in 1975, Peace is a spellbinding, brilliant tour de force of the imagination. The melancholy memoir of Alden Dennis Weer, an embittered old man living out his last days in a small midwestern town, the novel reveals a miraculous dimension as the narrative unfolds. For Weer’s imagination has the power to obliterate time and reshape reality, transcending even death itself. Powerfully moving and uncompromisingly honest, Peace ranks alongside the finest literary works of our time.
Hailed as “one of the literary giants of SF” by the Denver Post, Gene Wolfe has repeatedly won the field’s highest honors, including the Nebula, the Hugo, and the World Fantasy awards. Peace is Gene Wolfe’s first full-length novel, a work that shows the genius that later flourished in such acclaimed works as The Fifth Head of Cerberus and The Book of The New Sun. € 17,00
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L'ombra del torturatore. Il Libro del Nuovo Sole. Vol. 1Author: Wolfe Gene Publisher: Fanucci Come la ruvida cartolina olografica in grado di restituire con una sensibile inclinazione lo sviluppo tridimensionale dell'immagine, le vicende di Severian, apprendista artigiano della corporazione dei Torturatori, si muovono tra paesaggi medievali e architetture avveniristiche. Sullo sfondo la Torre di Matachin, luogo d'iniziazione ai segreti della casta che ammette come unici adepti i figli delle proprie vittime; in primo piano, l'amore per la condannata Thecla, motore propulsore della storia, che condurrà il protagonista lontano da Nessus, la Città Immortale; ed è in cammino sulle vie dell'esilio, con la spada del Maestro come unica compagna, che Severian tenterà la riscossa contro l'imperscrutabile potere dell'Autarca... € 6,90
Scontato: € 3,11
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La spada del littore. Il Libro del Nuovo Sole. Vol. 3Author: Wolfe Gene Publisher: Fanucci Nella valle ai piedi del Castello di Acies, sorge l'imponente e opulenta Thrax, la Città dalle Stanze Senza Finestre. E qui che Severian il Torturatore sconta l'esilio, prestando i suoi servigi come Littore presso il Vincula, l'antica necropoli trasformata in prigione. Con sé ha la fida spada Terminus Est e l'Artiglio, un gioiello dai poteri insondabili lasciatogli in eredità dal Conciliatore. Eppure qualcosa in lui è cambiato, il Torturatore che sentiva di essere vacilla. La fuga sulle montagne, in compagnia di un prigioniero da lui liberato e di un giovane che incontra lungo il suo cammino, sarà l'occasione per rileggere il proprio passato alla luce di nuove peregrinazioni e di sfide ancor più ardue, che lo metteranno ancora una volta faccia a faccia col suo destino. € 9,90
Scontato: € 4,46
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La cittadella dell'autarca. Il Libro del Nuovo Sole. Vol. 4Author: Wolfe Gene Publisher: Fanucci Dopo un lungo viaggio costellato di personaggi bizzarri ed eventi straordinari, Severian ha finalmente raggiunto la città del suo esilio: Thrax, la Città dalle Stanze Senza Finestre. Dei portentosi prodigi, però, indicano che la sorte ha in serbo per lui un destino più elevato e che Thrax non è la meta definitiva del suo peregrinare. Severian deve riprendere il cammino alla volta di Nessus, la città da cui è stato bandito, con una missione gravosa: salvare il fato dell'intera Urth dando vita alla nascita del Nuovo Sole e di una nuova era. Non c'è spazio per dubbi ed esitazioni, la sua nuova prova contempla due uniche alternative: diventare il Nuovo Sole oppure morire. Nel quarto volume del ciclo "Il Libro del Nuovo Sole" il peregrinare di Severian assume i connotati di un vero e proprio viaggio epico. Come un eroe classico che abbia espiato le proprie colpe in un viaggio di formazione e di catarsi, Severian fa finalmente ritorno a casa consapevole del destino di prescelto che lo attende. € 9,90
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Urth del Nuovo Sole. Il Libro del Nuovo Sole. Vol. 5Author: Wolfe Gene Publisher: Fanucci In quest'ultimo capitolo del Libro del Nuovo Sole, Severian è divenuto ormai Autarca di Urth, ma un viaggio decisivo lo chiama. E giunto il momento di lasciare il pianeta per affrontare la prova estrema. Il destino prevede per lui solo due possibilità, senza alternative: diventerà il leggendario Nuovo Sole oppure la morte calerà il suo nero mantello su di lui. Integrato nel progetto narrativo dell'intero ciclo, ma tale da poter esser visto come elemento architettonico a sé stante, "Urth del Nuovo Sole" è il coronamento di un singolare romanzo di formazione che, attingendo tanto al racconto popolare quanto alle strategie del postmoderno, reinterpreta i codici del genere fantascientifico. € 9,90
Scontato: € 4,46
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1911 |
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The Sorcerer's HouseAuthor: Wolfe Gene Publisher: Tor Books 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 fantastic creatures and events. His life is utterly transformed and we read on, because we must know more. We revise our opinions of him, and of others, with each letter. We learn things about magic, and another world, and about the sorcerer Mr. Black, who originally inhabited the house. And then perhaps we read it again. € 19,40
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1910 |
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The Ultimate EgoistAuthor: Sturgeon Theodore, Williams Paul (EDT), Bradbury Ray (FRW), Clarke Arthur C. (FRW), Wolfe Gene (FRW) Publisher: North Atlantic Books The Ultimate Egoist, the first volume of The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, contains the late author's earliest work, written from 1937 to 1940. Although Sturgeon's reach was limited to the lengths of the short story and novelette, his influence was strongly felt by even the most original science fiction stylists, including Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, and Gene Wolfe, all contributors of laudatory forewords. The more than forty stories here showcase Sturgeon's masterful knack with clever, O. Henry-ish plot twists, sparkling character development, and archetypal “why didn't I think of that?” story ideas. Early Sturgeon masterpieces include “It,” about the violence done by a creature spontaneously born from garbage and mud, and “Helix the Cat,” about an inventor's bizarre encounter with a disembodied soul and the cat that saves it. Sturgeon's unique genius is timelessly entertaining. € 31,20
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Pirate FreedomAuthor: Wolfe Gene Publisher: Tor Books 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-date, but Chris is too busy trying to find his next meal and a safe place to sleep to contemplate the city's odd lack of modern conveniences. He finds that this world is a much harder one than the one he remembers; it's a place where people steal, lie, and cheat. Where slaves are sold at auction, and the Spanish, French, and English are all battling for supremacy. When Chris is offered the opportunity to work on a ship in exchange for food and a small bit of money, he takes it, and thus begins his life as a pirate. People die, treasures are found, women are taken captive, and crews rebel. Gene Wolfe is a masterful storyteller, and in Pirate Freedom, he uses his customary vision to invite us into the captivating world of pirates, their lives, and their adventures. € 20,00
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The Best of Gene WolfeAuthor: Wolfe Gene Publisher: Tor Books “One of the literary giants of science fiction.”
“Wolfe is a sophisticated stylist, and has more in common with writers such as Jorge Luis Borges than almost any science fiction writer both in terms of craft and themes.” € 25,90
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2009 |
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An Evil GuestAuthor: Wolfe Gene Publisher: St Martins Pr 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 actress who becomes the lover of both a mysterious private detective and an even more mysterious and powerful rich man, a man who has been to the human colony on an alien planet and learned strange things there. Her loyalties are divided—perhaps she loves them both. The detective helps her to release her inner beauty and become a star overnight. The rich man is the angel of a play she stars in. But something is very wrong. Money can be an evil guest, but there are other evils. As Lovecraft said, “That is not dead which can eternal lie.” € 18,70
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The Best of Gene WolfeAuthor: Wolfe Gene Publisher: St Martins Pr From a literary perspective, this will certainly be the best collection of the year in science fiction and fantasy. Gene Wolfe, of whom The Washington Post said, “Of all SF writers currently active none is held in higher esteem,” has selected the short fiction he considers his finest into one volume. € 20,30
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Riposa in paceAuthor: Wolfe Gene Publisher: Il Prato € 15,00
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2007 |
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Soldier of SidonAuthor: Wolfe Gene Publisher: St Martins Pr 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, of spiteful and conniving deities. Without his memory, he is unsure of everything, except for his desire to be free of the curse that causes him to forget. € 13,40
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2006 |
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Starwater StrainsAuthor: Wolfe Gene Publisher: St Martins Pr Gene Wolfe follows his acclaimed all-fantasy short story collection, Innocents Aboard, with a volume devoted primarily to his science fiction. The twenty-five stories here amply demonstrate his range, excellence, and mastery of the form. A few tantalizing samples: "Viewpoint" takes on the unreality of so-called "reality" TV and imagines such a show done truly for real, with real guns. "Empires of Foliage and Flower" is in the classic Book of the New Sun series. "Golden City Far." is about dreams, high school, and finding love, which Wolfe says "is about as good a recipe for a story as I've ever found." You're sure to agree. € 20,80
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2005 |
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The WizardAuthor: Wolfe Gene Publisher: St Martins Pr A novel in two volumes, The Wizard Knight is in the rare company of those works which move past the surface of fantasy and drink from the wellspring of myth. Magic swords, dragons, giants, quests, love, honor, nobility-all the familiar features of fantasy come to fresh life in this masterful work. The first half of the journey, The Knight -- which you are advised to read first, to let the whole story engulf you from the beginning -- took a teenage boy from America into Mythgarthr, the middle realm of seven fantastic worlds. Above are the gods of Skai; below are the capricious Aelf, and more dangerous things still. Journeying throughout Mythgarthr, Able gains a new brother, an Aelf queen lover, a supernatural hound, and the desire to prove his honor and become the noble knight he always knew he would be. Coming into Jotunland, home of the Frost Giants, Able -- now Sir Able of the High Heart --claims the great sword Eterne from the dragon who has it. In reward, he is ushered into the castle of the Valfather, king of all the Gods of Skai. Thus begins the second part of his quest. The Wizard begins with Able's return to Mythgathr on his steed Cloud, a great mare the color of her name. Able is filled with new knowledge of the ways of the seven-fold world and possessed of great magical secrets. His knighthood now beyond question, Able works to fulfill his vows to his king, his lover, his friends, his gods, and even his enemies. Able must set his world right, restoring the proper order among the denizens of all the seven worlds. The Wizard is a charming, riveting, emotionally charged tale of wonders, written with all the beauty one would expect from a writer whom Damon Knight called "a national treasure." If you've never sampled the works of the man Michael Swanwick described as "the greatest writer in the English language alive today," the two volumes of The Wizard Knight are the perfect place to start. € 13,20
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2004 |
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The WizardAuthor: Wolfe Gene Publisher: St Martins Pr A novel in two volumes, The Wizard Knight is in the rare company of those works which move past the surface of fantasy and drink from the wellspring of myth. Magic swords, dragons, giants, quests, love, honor, nobility-all the familiar features of fantasy come to fresh life in this masterful work. The first half of the journey, The Knight -- which you are advised to read first, to let the whole story engulf you from the beginning -- took a teenage boy from America into Mythgarthr, the middle realm of seven fantastic worlds. Above are the gods of Skai; below are the capricious Aelf, and more dangerous things still. Journeying throughout Mythgarthr, Able gains a new brother, an Aelf queen lover, a supernatural hound, and the desire to prove his honor and become the noble knight he always knew he would be. Coming into Jotunland, home of the Frost Giants, Able -- now Sir Able of the High Heart --claims the great sword Eterne from the dragon who has it. In reward, he is ushered into the castle of the Valfather, king of all the Gods of Skai. Thus begins the second part of his quest. The Wizard begins with Able's return to Mythgathr on his steed Cloud, a great mare the color of her name. Able is filled with new knowledge of the ways of the seven-fold world and possessed of great magical secrets. His knighthood now beyond question, Able works to fulfill his vows to his king, his lover, his friends, his gods, and even his enemies. Able must set his world right, restoring the proper order among the denizens of all the seven worlds. The Wizard is a charming, riveting, emotionally charged tale of wonders, written with all the beauty one would expect from a writer whom Damon Knight called "a national treasure." If you've never sampled the works of the man Michael Swanwick described as "the greatest writer in the English language alive today," the two volumes of The Wizard Knight are the perfect place to start. € 18,60
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2003 |
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Latro in the MistAuthor: Wolfe Gene Publisher: Orb Books A distinguished compilation of two classic fantasy novels, Soldier of the Mist and Soldier of Areté, in one volume This omnibus of two acclaimed novels is the story of Latro, a Roman mercenary who while fighting in Greece received a head injury that deprived him of his short-term memory but gave him in return the ability to see and converse with the supernatural creatures and the gods and goddesses, who invisibly inhabit the ancient landscape. 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, and many consider these Wolfe's best books. A distinguished compilation of two classic fantasy novels, Soldier of the Mist and Soldier of Areté, in one volume This omnibus of two acclaimed novels is the story of Latro, a Roman mercenary who while fighting in Greece received a head injury that deprived him of his short-term memory but gave him in return the ability to see and converse with the supernatural creatures and the gods and goddesses, who invisibly inhabit the ancient landscape. 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, and many consider these Wolfe's best books. € 35,70
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2002 |
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Return to the WhorlAuthor: Wolfe Gene Publisher: Tor Books Gene Wolfe's Return to the Whorl is the third volume, after On Blue's Waters and In Green's Jungles, of his ambitious SF trilogy The Book of the Short Sun . . . It is again narrated by Horn, who has embarked on a quest in search of the heroic leader Patera Silk. Horn has traveled from his home on the planet Blue, reached the mysterious planet Green, and visited the great starship, the Whorl and even, somehow, the distant planet Urth. But Horn's identity has become ambiguous, a complex question embedded in the story, whose telling is itself complex, shifting from place to place, present to past. Perhaps Horn and Silk are now one being. Return to the Whorl brings Wolfe's major new fiction, The Book of the Short Sun, to a strange and seductive climax. € 24,90
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