New Releases by Gene Wolfe

Bien loin de la Terre, deux planètes sœurs, Sainte-Anne et Sainte-Croix, ont été colonisées par des Français qui ont détruit la population indigène de la seconde. Bien des décennies plus tard - après que les colons français ont été eux-mêmes vaincus et dispersés -, un ethnologue, le Dr Marsh, consacre sa vie à retrouver des traces de cette culture effacée, oubliée, passée au rang des mythes et qu''une culpabilité ancienne tend à refouler dans l''imaginaire. En trois contes d''une écriture chaque fois renouvelée, Gene Wolfe retrace les aspects contradictoires mais complémentaires de cette quête de l''identité d''un peuple, d''une pureté originelle dont un génocide a voilé jusqu''au souvenir. Voici un livre étrange, subtil et attachant, sans pareil dans le domaine de la science-fiction et qui imprègne longtemps le souvenir du lecteur comme d''un parfum, comme d''une vibration, comme du souvenir d''un songe.

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.

Now in paperback--the first book in Wolfe''s critically acclaimed two-volume epic fantasy, written in the Tolkien tradition, about a boy who learns about fighting, magic, love, and loyalty in a thrilling, coming-of-age story.

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

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.

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.

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.

Science fiction. Space hero Horn battles shapeshifting vampires who want to use humans as cattle. It happens on planet Blue where Horn is searching for the planet''s missing leader. First volume in a trilogy

Horn''s physique is slowly changing, causing his friends and family to wonder who he really is, so to prove his identity, he reminisces about his many space adventures.

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.

Gene Wolfe is producing the most significant body of short fiction of any living writer in the SF genre. It has been ten years since the last major Wolfe collection, so Strange Travelers contains a whole decade of achievement. Some of these stories were award nominees, some were controversial, but each is unique and beautifully written. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

"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.

The long-awaited conclusion to "The Book of the Long Sun". "Wolfe may already have established himself as the definitive voice in science fantasy. If he has not, "Long Sun" is likely to do the job".--"Chicago Sun-Times". A "New York Times" Notable Book of the Year.

A superb collection of science fiction and fantasy stories, The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories is a book that transcends all genre definitions. The stories within are mined with depth charges, explosions of meaning and illumination that will keep you thinking and feeling long after you have finished reading. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

He lives deep in the forest in the time of King Wenceslas, in a village older than record. The young man''s hero-worship of the charming highwayman, Wat, is tempered by growing suspicion of Wat''s cold savagery, and his fear of the sorcerous powers of Mother Cloot is tempered by her kindness. He must decide which of these powers to stand by in the coming battle between Good and Evil that not even his isolated village will be able to avoid. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Hailed as "one of the literary giants of science fiction" by The Denver Post, Gene Wolfe is universally acknowledged as one of the most brilliant writers the field has ever produced. Winner of the World Fantasy Award for best fiction collection, Storeys from the Old Hotel contains thirty-one remarkable gems of Wolfe''s short fiction from the past two decades, most unavailable in any other form. Storeys from the Old Hotel includes many of Gene Wolfe''s most appealing and engaging works, from short-shorts that can be read in single setting to whimsical fantasy and even Sherlock Holmes pastiches. It is a literary feast for anyone interested in the best science fiction has to offer. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

A Nebula Award Finalist and Winner of the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel, Caldé of the Long Sun is the third volume in science fiction Grand Master Gene Wolfe''s Book of the Long Sun tetralogy. Journeying aboard the generational starship the Whorl, the young priest Patera Silk becomes a prophet and revolutionary as he questions his faith while confronting a crime lord in a saga where "[Wolfe] continues to prove himself one of the genre''s most literate writers and luminescent thinkers" (Library Journal). At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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