REQUEST: Gene Wolfe recommendation

Patrick Nielsen-Hayden · 16 Jan 1993, 02:29 · from sf-lovers.1993.mbox

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From: pnh at panix.com (Patrick Nielsen-Hayden)
Subject: Re: REQUEST: Gene Wolfe recommendation
Date: 16 Jan 93 02:29:58 GMT
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sclera at milori.ccit.arizona.edu writes:
>Ah, a real topic.  It has been a while, but I think the name is "The
>Torturer's Apprentice," which starts the Urth of the New Sun series.
>These are books which will get those endolphins :) flowing.  They remind
>me of a latter-day Iliad.

You're thinking of THE SHADOW OF THE TORTURER, the first of four volumes
that comprise The Book of the New Sun.  THE URTH OF THE NEW SUN is a
separate work, connected to The Book of the New Sun but not part of it.

This coming April we will publish, in hardcover, NIGHTSIDE THE LONG SUN,
the first of (yes) four volumes of The Book of the Long Sun, a new work set
several thousand years earlier in the same universe.

Your recommendation of THE FIFTH HEAD OF CERBERUS and THE ISLAND OF DOCTOR
DEATH AND OTHER STORIES AND OTHER STORIES zeroes unerringly in on two books
which are currently out of print.  We actually own THE FIFTH HEAD OF
CERBERUS and will be getting it back into print by and by.  Meanwhile, fans
of Gene's short fiction can find quite a lot of it in ENDANGERED SPECIES,
STORIES FROM THE OLD HOTEL, and CASTLE OF DAYS.

Patrick Nielsen Hayden
senior editor
Tor Books

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