New Releases by Gene Wolfe

“Gene Wolfe is the smartest, subtlest, most dangerous writer alive today, in genre or out of it. This book [is] important and wonderful.” —Neil Gaiman on The Knight A novel in two volumes, The Wizard Knight is in the rare company of works of fantasy like The Once and Future King, or The Wizard of Earthsea, that drink directly from the wellspring of myth. Now it appears in a single-volume edition for the first time. A young man in his teens is transported from our world to a magical realm consisting of seven levels of reality. Transformed by magic into a grown man of heroic proportions, he takes the name Sir Able of the High Heart and sets out on a quest to find the sword that has been promised to him, the blade that will help him fulfill his ambition to become a true hero—a true knight. Inside, however, Sir Able remains a boy, and he must grow in every sense to survive what lies ahead... “[Wolfe] should enjoy the same rapt attention we afford to Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, and Cormac McCarthy.” —The Washington Post on The Knight “Wolfe’s version of Faerie is both allusive and elusive, beautiful and fatally glamorous.” —Tad Williams on The Knight With a new introduction by Yves Meynard, acclaimed author of The Book of Knights. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Lake of the Long Sun is the second volume in the Book of the Long Sun series from science fiction and fantasy master Gene Wolfe It is the far future, and the giant spaceship, The Whorl, has travelled for forgotten generation towards its destination. Lit inside by the artificial Long Sun, The Whorl is so huge that you can see whole cities in the sky. And now the gods of The Whorl begin to intervene in human affairs. A god speaks to Patera Silk, a clergyman at work in the schoolyard of his church. Silk must go on a quest to save his church and his people. "Stylistic excellence and topnotch storytelling."--Library Journal At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Eine gefährliche Suche Severian, der junge Henker, ist endlich in Thrax angekommen und nimmt seinen Posten als Liktor, als oberster Vollstrecker des Gesetzes, ein. Er bezieht seine Wohnung im Gefängnis, und mit ihm seine Lebensgefährtin Dorcas, die er auf der langen und abenteuerlichen Reise nach Thrax kennenlernte. Doch sie hält es in der erdrückenden Atmosphäre nicht lange aus und verlässt ihn, und auch Severian macht sich bald erneut auf den Weg, denn nach wie vor ist er im Besitz der Klaue des Schlichters, dessen wahre Besitzer er in den Bergen zu finden hofft. Mystische Kreaturen sollen es sein, die nicht menschlich sind ...

Aufbruch in eine ungewisse Zukunft Eine Million Jahre in der Zukunft: Die Technik ist bis auf wenige Rest verschwunden. Die Menschheit fiel kulturell ins Mittelalter zurück und harrt der Ankunft der neuen Sonne, die ein neues Zeitalter herbeiführen soll. Dies ist die Geschichte Severians, eines Waisenjungen, der in der Zunft der Folterer aufwächst und dieses Handwerk erlernt. Doch als er eines Tages aus Mitleid einer Frau den Selbstmord gestattet, wird er aus dieser Zunft ausgestoßen. Doch anstatt selbst gefoltert und hingerichtet zu werden, schickt die Gilde ihn nach Thrax, einer weit entfernten Stadt, die einen Henker braucht. Severian macht sich auf eine Reise, die sein Leben für immer verändern wird ...

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.

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

The best stories of the year: here is a collection of the year''s best fantasy stories, by some of the genre''s greatest authors, and selected by Rich Horton, a contributing reviewer to many of the field''s most respected magazines. In this volume you''ll find stories Peter Beagle, Paul Di Filippo, Neil Gaiman, Theodora Goss, Kelly Link, Gene Wolfe and many more! Complete contents: PIP AND THE FAIRIES, by Theodora Goss COMBER, by Gene Wolfe THREE URBAN FOLK TALES, by Eric Schaller WAX, by Elizabeth Bear THE EMPEROR OF GONDWANALAND, by Paul Di Filippo COMMCOMM, by George Saunders FIVE WAYS JANE AUSTEN NEVER DIED, by Samantha Henderson FANCY BREAD, by Gregory Feeley SUNBIRD, by Neil Gaiman THE SECRET OF BROKEN TICKERS, by Joe Murphy ON THE BLINDSIDE, by Sonya Taaffe JANE, by Marc Laidlaw IS THERE LIFE AFTER REHAB? by Pat Cadigan TWO HEARTS, Peter S. Beagle SUPER-VILLAINS, Michael Canfield EMPTY PLACES, by Richard Parks INVISIBLE, by Steve Rasnic Tem BY THE LIGHT OF TOMORROW’S SUN, by Holly Phillips THE GIST HUNTER, by Matthew Hughes

In this companion guide, Michael Andre-Driussi illuminates Gene Wolfe''s Book of the Long Sun and Book of the Short Sun science fiction series through dictionary-style entries on the characters, gods, locations, themes, and timelines of the novels. Gate of Horn, Book of Silk, is organized in two parts, with the first half covering the Long Sun series (Nightside the Long Sun, Lake of the Long Sun, Calde of the Long Sun, and Exodus from the Long Sun) and the second half covering the Short Sun series (On Blue''s Waters, In Green''s Jungles, and Return to the Whorl). "Languages of the Whorl," a section between the two parts, covers all the dialect, slang, and foreign terms used in the books--thieves'' cant, flier language, Tick''s talk, and more. Ten maps and diagrams are included. This is Michael Andre-Driussi''s third guidebook to the rich tapestries of Gene Wolfe''s worlds. As fans of of Lexicon Urthus and The Wizard Knight Companion have noted, that each book is both a convenient tool for a question while re-reading the novels but also an enjoyable read in its own right, from A to Z.

Presents a collection of short fiction for the year 2010 featuring the work of such authors as Elizabeth Bear, Peter Watts, Rachel Swirsky, Steve Gould, and Jay Lake.

Devenu licteur de Thrace, Sévérian semble avoir trouvé l''équilibre qui lui manquait depuis son départ de Nessus. Pourtant, de mystérieuses créatures sont toujours à ses trousses et nombre de ses questions restent posées. Le bourreau en trouvera-t-il les réponses dans le lointain passé de Teur? Et quel rôle joue réellement la Griffe du Conciliateur? La quête de Sévérian va prendre un tournant décisif, pour son propre avenir et celui de la planète entière. Naviguant entre fantasy et science-fiction, Le livre du Nouveau Soleil, dont L''épée du licteur est le troisième tonie, est une des quêtes initiatiques les plus originales et inventives jamais écrites.

The best stories of a long and influential career by “quite simply a superb writer” (The Washington Post Book World)

As a young parish priest, Father Christopher has heard many confessions, but his own tale is more astounding than any revelation he has ever encountered in the confessional . . . for Chris was once a pirate captain, hundreds of years before his birth. Fresh from the monastery, the former novice finds himself inexplicably transported back to the Golden Age of Piracy, where an unexpected new life awaits him. At first, he resists joining the notorious Brethren of the Coast, but he soon embraces the life of a buccaneer, even as he succumbs to the seductive charms of a beautiful and enigmatic senorita. As the captain of his own swift ship, which may or may not be cursed, he plunders the West Indies in search of Spanish gold. From Tortuga to Port Royal, from the stormy waters of the Caribbean to steamy tropical jungles, Captain Chris finds danger, passion, adventure, and treachery as he hoists the black flag and sets sail for the Spanish mainland. Where he will finally come to port only God knows . . . . Pirate Freedom is a captivating new masterpiece by the award-winning author of The Wizard Knight and Soldier of Sidon. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Gene Wolfe''s In Green''s Jungles is the second volume, after On Blue''s Waters, of his ambitious SF trilogy, The Book of the Short Sun. It is again narrated by Horn, who has embarked on a quest from his home on the planet Blue in search of the heroic leader Patera Silk. Now 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. Horn recalls visiting the Whorl, the enormous spacecraft in orbit that brought the settlers from Urth, and going thence to the planet Green, home of the blood-drinking alien inhumi. There, he led a band of mercenary soldiers, answered to the name of Rajan, and later became the ruler of a city state. He has also encountered the mysterious aliens, the Neighbors, who once inhabited both Blue and Green. He remembers a visit to Nessus, on Urth. At some point, he died. His personality now seemingly inhabits a different body, so that even his sons do not recognize him. And people mistake him for Silk, to whom he now bears a remarkable resemblance. In Green''s Jungles is Wolfe''s major new fiction, The Book of the Short Sun, building toward a strange and seductive climax. "Wolfe''s narrative glows, rich and seductive as ever."--Kirkus Reviews At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

A Mythic Quest Through Seven Fantastical Worlds The Wizard Knight is a novel in two volumes that transcends the surface of fantasy, delving deep into the wellspring of myth. This masterful work breathes fresh life into the familiar features of the genre: magic swords, dragons, giants, quests, love, honor, and nobility. In The Knight, a teenage boy from America journeys into Mythgarthr, the middle realm of seven wondrous worlds. As Able navigates this fantastical land, he gains a new brother, an Aelf queen lover, a supernatural hound, and a fierce desire to prove his honor and become a true knight. In The Wizard, Able returns to Mythgathr as Sir Able of the High Heart, armed with new knowledge and magical secrets. He strives to fulfill his vows and restore balance among the denizens of all seven worlds. Gene Wolfe, hailed as "the greatest writer in the English language alive today" by Michael Swanwick, weaves a charming, riveting, and emotionally charged tale of wonders in this epic fantasy series. The Wizard Knight is the perfect introduction to the works of a writer Damon Knight called "a national treasure." At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Latro arrives in Egypt where he struggles to regain his memory. Unable to remember anything when he wakes up, Latro writes down each day''s events and reads his journal anew each morning.

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 Able 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, however, Able remains a boy, and he must grow in every sense to survive the dangers and delights that lie ahead in encounters with giants, elves, wizards, and dragons. His adventure will conclude next year in the second volume of The Wizard Knight, The Wizard. Gene Wolfe is one of the most widely praised masters of SF and fantasy. He is the winner of the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, the Nebula Award, twice, the World Fantasy Award, twice, the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, the British Fantasy Award, and France''s Prix Apollo. His popular successes include the four-volume classic The Book of the New Sun. With this new series, Wolfe not only surpasses all the most popular genre writers of the last three decades, he takes on the legends of the past century, in a work that will be favorably compared with the best of J. R. R. Tolkien, E. R. Eddison, Mervyn Peake, and T. H. White. This is a book---and a series---for the ages, from perhaps the greatest living writer in (or outside) the fantasy genre. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Collects twenty-five short stories primarily from the science fiction genre, including such tales as "Viewpoint," "Petting Zoo," and "Empires of Foliage and Flower."

Gene Wolfe may be the single best writer in fantasy and SF of his generation. From The Book of the Long Sun to The Book of the New Sun series, to his impressive short fiction oeuvre. Innocents Aboard gathers fantasy and horror stories from the last decade that have never before been in a Wolfe collection. Highlights from the twenty-two stories include "The Tree is my Hat," adventure and horror in the South Seas, "The Night Chough," a Long Sun story, "The Walking Sticks," a darkly humorous tale of a supernatural inheritance, and "Houston, 1943," lurid adventures in a dream that has no end. This is fantastic fiction at its best. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

This omnibus of two acclaimed novels is the story of Latro, a Roman mercenary who was fighting in Greece when he 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, the gods and goddesses, who invisibly inhabit the classical 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.

El augur Pátera Seda continúa el descubrimiento de la verdad que se esconde tras las apariencias de su mundo. En la búsqueda del secreto se interna en los túneles que forman el helado inframundo del Vórtice. Allí descubre a los defensores de las diferentes ciudades, aunque la mayoría de ellos se encuentran «dormidos». Sin embargo, éstos dudan de la idoneidad de los planes de batalla de tres siglos. Pero las profundidades también guardan personas en una especie de estado de hibernación. Los misterios sobre el origen del mundo se multiplican y la revolución parece cada vez más cercana. «El Libro del Sol Nuevo es una de las más grandes obras de ciencia ficción jamás escrita... Leí este libro mientras volaba a la Antártida y me olvidé de mirar por la ventanilla del avión.» KIM STANLEY ROBINSON

There Are Doors is the story of a man who falls in love with a goddess from an alternate universe. She flees him, but he pursues her through doorways-interdimensional gateways-to the other place, determined to sacrifice his life, if necessary, for her love. For in her world, to be her mate . . . is to die. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

After becoming the first Caldé in more than a century, Silk gets a glimpse into the nature of the Whorl and of his own purpose.

This omnibus of "Nightside of the Long Sun" and "Lake of the Long Sun" is this "modern-day Homer" ("Washington Post Book World") at his best.

"Free Live Free," said the newspaper ad, and the out-of-work detective Jim Stubb, the occultist Madame Serpentina, the salesman Ozzie Barnes, and the overweight prostitute Candy Garth are brought together to live for a time in Free''s old house, a house scheduled for demolition to make way for a highway. Free drops mysterious hints of his exile from his homeland, and of the lost key to his return. And so when demolition occurs and Free disappears, the four make a pact to continue the search, which ultimately takes them far beyond their wildest dreams. This is character-driven science fiction at its best by a writer whom, at the time of its first publication, the Chicago Sun-Times called "science fiction''s best genuine novelist." At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The long awaited sequel to Gene Wolfe''s four-volume classic, The Book of the New Sun. We return to the world of Severian, now the Autarch of Urth, as he leaves the planet on one of the huge spaceships of the alien Hierodules to travel across time and space to face his greatest test, to become the legendary New Sun or die. The strange, rich, original spaceship scenes give way to travels in time, wherein Severian revisits times and places which fill in parts of the background of the four-volume work, that will thrill and intrigue particularly all readers of the earlier books. But The Urth of the New Sun is an independent structure all of a piece, an integral masterpiece to shelve beside the classics, one itself. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.