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Exodus From The Long Sun

By Gene Wolfe
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Publisher Description

Exodus from the Long Sun concludes Gene Wolfe's masterful sci-fi epic series, the Book of the Long Sun

It is the far future, and the giant spaceship, The Whorl, has traveled for forgotten generations toward its destination.

Lit inside by the artificial Long Sun, The Whorl is so huge that whole cities can be seen in the sky. And the gods of The Whorl have begun to intervene in human affairs. An entirely unexpected future awaits as Patera Silk and the other inhabitants are confronted with the world of an alien race.

Wolfe's great work is complete, with the mysterious fullness of life itself.

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

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“I’ll be using this space to write my review for the Book of the Long Sun in its entirety. As I’ve made a deep dive into the work of Gene Wolfe after being introduced to him via the Book of the New Sun, I knew I was in for a long, wonderful ride. Though New Sun remains my favorite work of Wolfe’s to this day, what I wasn’t expecting was a maturation in his writing— this isn’t to say New Sun isn’t beautiful, it absolutely is, but Long Sun takes on a bit of a stylistic change of pace that immediately separated it as its own thing. Perhaps the best way I can describe Wolfe’s work from this era is that it’s more conversational in tone than New Sun was. I’ve always found the intersection of SFF and religion to be a deeply fascinating thing, and this might be the apex of that— a dense SFF story that deals with the complexities of religion as a power structure, full of its own inconsistencies in how it defines what is indeed moral… and how being a staunch practitioner, let alone a figure of relative authority within that hierarchy (like our hero, Patera Silk) has both beneficial (community-oriented, routine-oriented, selflessness) and detrimental qualities (tunnel-vision, repression, extreme piety). It’s a saga that does not seek to condemn, but be critical of those very power structures in how they transform people (some for the better, some for the worse). In contrast to New Sun’s Severian (a character often worthy of utter contempt), Silk is a character that displays a profound sense of selflessness throughout much of the book and his nuances solidify him as one of the greatest protagonists in all of SFF— a label I also associate with Severian, though in a notably oppositional fashion. Beyond the subtleties of the narrative and characterization, how Wolfe manages to combine so many strange, esoteric and disparate SFF elements so well is beyond me— Long Sun is part science-fantasy, part detective story and arguably part ghost story containing talking animals, exorcisms, giant androids, robot nuns, generation ships and mythological figures, all wrapped up in a simultaneously very humanistic and dreamlike manner that also has the ability to inject a subtle, wry and well-timed sense of humor at its best moments. Like much of Wolfe’s catalogue, I think it’s a miracle of a book and his nuance/sensitivity is on full display here. A masterpiece.”

About Gene Wolfe

Gene Wolfe (1931-2019) was the Nebula Award-winning author of The Book of the New Sun tetralogy in the Solar Cycle, as well as the World Fantasy Award winners The Shadow of the Torturer and Soldier of Sidon. He was also a prolific writer of distinguished short fiction, which has been collected in such award-winning volumes as Storeys from the Old Hotel and The Best of Gene Wolfe.



A recipient of the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, the Edward E. Smith Memorial Award, and six Locus Awards, among many other honors, Wolfe was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2007, and named Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2012.

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