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.

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."

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.

Originally published: New York: T. Doherty Associates, 1989; London: Orbit, 1990.

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.

Science fiction-roman.

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.

Partie de la rue du Soleil, la nouvelle s''est répandue comme une traînée de poudre dans les rues de Viron : Pas, le Dieu Suprême, a été assassiné par sa famille ! Privé d''horloger, le Méande sombre dans le chaos : les manants s''entretuent, les dieux se révèlent aussi cruels que dégénérés, les augures se muent en chefs de guérilla, les proxénètes en diplomates et les prostituées en prophétesses.. Pire, le soleil se détraque et menace la survie même de l''humanité. Sous la pression de la foule, Organsin se résigne à accepter la charge de caldé afin de ramener l''ordre et la paix. Mais la marche vers le pouvoir est semée de chausse-trapes... Blessé, traqué par les sbires de la dictature, séparé de sa bien-aimée Jacinthe, il doit encore affronter le doute qui s''insinue en lui : et si le Méande n''était qu''une illusion, la partie visible et artificielle d''un mystère plus vaste qui échapperait aux dieux eux-mêmes ?