New Releases by Gene Wolfe

EL LIBRO DEL SOL NUEVO IV Premio John W. Campbell 1984 Severian interviene en la guerra contra el ejército ascio. Acompañado por un soldado herido viaja y oye historias extraordinarias, como la del cazador de focas, y encuentra una peregrina con quien discute las virtudes de la Garra. Huyendo de los terrores de los habitantes de las aguas profundas y de las voladoras astillas de la noche, continúa avanzando inexorablemente hacia el misterio final: el pronosticado advenimiento del Sol Nuevo. Al fin Severian regresa a la Ciudadela. Pronto habrá dos Severian: el aprendiz y el autarca. "Cofres repletos de maravillas: repletos de imágenes como joyas. Una de las grandes épicas de la fantasía de todos los tiempos. " GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

First published in 1972, this SF masterpiece has been out of print for most of a decade. Now, this "subtle, ingenious, and poetic book" (Ursula Le Guin) entertains a new generation of readers with the story of two far-flung sister planets and a man''s quest to find remnants of a lost.

Nightside the Long Sun is the beginning of the science fiction masterpiece from Gene Wolfe, Book of the Long Sun Life on the Whorl, and the struggles and triumphs of Patera Silk to satisfy the demands of the gods, will captivate readers yearning for something new and different in science fiction, for the magic of the future. Enormous in breadth and scope, Wolfe''s ambitious new work opens out into a world of wonders, of gods and humans, aliens and machines, and mysterious adventures far out in space and deep inside the human spirit. It is set on a ship-world whose origins are shrouded in legend, ruled by strange gods who appear infrequently to their worshippers on large screens, and peopled by a human race changed by eons of time, yet familiar. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The box is heavy, locked, and very old. The only clue to its contents is the name written in gold upon its lid: PANDORA. Bright teenager Holly Hollander is understandably curious about what''s inside, but when the box is opened, death is unleashed . . . and Holly is the only one who can solve the deadly puzzle.

Arthurian legend collides with Main Street, USA, in Gene Wolfe''s classic fantasy adventure. Castleview, Illinois, got its name from occasional sightings of a phantom castle on stormy nights--a place where the barrier between past and present is weak and strange things happen.

"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.

In a thoroughly decadent world of the future, Severian the torturer is cast out from the torturer''s guild when he falls in love with one of his victims and allows her to die

Three of science fiction''s most gifted young writers unleash their imaginations to present startling glimpses of humanity''s future on Earth and in space.