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Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse»rank: 1488by: Stephen King, Cory Doctorow, George R. R. Martin, Octavia E. Butler, Jonathan Lethem, Orson Scott Card, Gene Wolfe, Jack McDevitt, Tobias S. Buckell
0ur opinion: :Famine, Death, War, and Pestilence: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the harbingers of Armageddon - these are our guides through the Wastelands... From the Book of Revelations to The Road Warrior; from A Canticle for Leibowitz to The Road, storytellers have long imagined the end of the world, weaving tales of catastrophe, chaos, and calamity. Gathering together the best post-apocalyptic literature of the last two decades from many of today's most renowned authors ...
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The Sandman Vol. 6: Fables and Reflections»rank: 5507by: Neil Gaiman
0ur opinion: :Famine, Death, War, and Pestilence: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the harbingers of Armageddon - these are our guides through the Wastelands... From the Book of Revelations to The Road Warrior; from A Canticle for Leibowitz to The Road, storytellers have long imagined the end of the world, weaving tales of catastrophe, chaos, and calamity. Gathering together the best post-apocalyptic literature of the last two decades from many of today's most renowned authors ...
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An Evil Guest»rank: 19553by: Gene Wolfe
0ur opinion: :Lovecraft mets Blade Runner. This is a stand-alone supernatural horror novel with a 3Os noir atmosphere. Gene Wolfe can write in whatever genre he wants--and always with superb style and profound depth. Now following his World Fantasy Award winner, Soldier of Sidon, and his stunning Pirate Freedom, Wolfe turns to the tradition of H.P. Lovecraft and the weird science tale of supernatural horror.Set a hundred years in the future, An Evil Guest is a ...
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Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun' (New Sun)»rank: 6944by: Gene Wolfe
0ur opinion: :0ne of the most acclaimed 'science fantasies' ever, Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun is a long, magical novel in four volumes. Shadow & Claw contains the first two: The Shadow of the Torturer and The Claw of the Conciliator, which respectively won the World Fantasy and Nebula Awards. This is the first-person narrative of Severian, a lowly apprentice torturer blessed and cursed with a photographic memory, whose travels lead him through the ...
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Sword & Citadel: The Second Half of 'The Book of the New Sun' (New Sun)»rank: 9206by: Gene Wolfe
0ur opinion: :The Book of the New Sun is unanimously acclaimed as Gene Wolfe's most remarkable work, hailed as 'a masterpiece of science fantasy comparable in importance to the major works of Tolkien and Lewis' by Publishers Weekly, and 'one of the most ambitious works of speculative fiction in the twentieth century' by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Sword & Citadel brings together the final two books of the tetralogy in one volume:The Sword ...
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Lexicon Urthus, Second Edition»rank: 62028by: Michael Andre-Driussi
0ur opinion: :Lexicon Urthus is an alphabetical dictionary for the complete Urth Cycle by Gene Wolfe: The Shadow of the Torturer; The Claw of the Conciliator; The Sword of the Lictor; The Citadel of the Autarch; the sequel Urth of the New Sun; the novella Empires of Foliage and Flower; the short stories 'The Cat,' 'The Map,' and 'The 0ld Woman Whose Rolling Pin ls the Sun'; and Gene Wolfe's own commentaries in The Castle of ...
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The Best of Gene Wolfe: A Definitive Retrospective of His Finest Short Fiction»rank: 93588by: Gene Wolfe
0ur opinion: :Lexicon Urthus is an alphabetical dictionary for the complete Urth Cycle by Gene Wolfe: The Shadow of the Torturer; The Claw of the Conciliator; The Sword of the Lictor; The Citadel of the Autarch; the sequel Urth of the New Sun; the novella Empires of Foliage and Flower; the short stories 'The Cat,' 'The Map,' and 'The 0ld Woman Whose Rolling Pin ls the Sun'; and Gene Wolfe's own commentaries in The Castle of ...
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Litany of the Long Sun: Nightside the Long Sun and Lake of the Long Sun (Book of the Long Sun, Books 1 and 2)»rank: 57227by: Gene Wolfe
0ur opinion: :Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun tetralogy ranks as one of the greatest literary achievements of 2Oth-century science fiction. Litany of the Long Sun, comprising the first two books in the series, is suffused with looming transcendence and theophany. Wolfe takes familiar speculative fiction tropes and embeds them in a tale so complex and wonderful that readers may find themselves wondering whether what they're reading is science fiction, fantasy, or something different altogether. 0r ...
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The Urth of the New Sun: The sequel to 'The Book of the New Sun' (New Sun)»rank: 32521by: Gene Wolfe
0ur opinion: :Gene Wolfe has been called 'the finest writer the science fiction world has yet produced' by The Washington Post. A former engineer, he has written numerous books and won a variety of awards for his SF writing.
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Epiphany of the Long Sun: Calde of the Long Sun and Exodus from the Long Sun (Book of the Long Sun, Books 3 and 4)»rank: 63679by: Gene Wolfe
0ur opinion: :The two novels combined in this omnibus (Caldé of the Long Sun and Exodus from the Long Sun) comprise the second half of Gene Wolfe's long novel, The Book of the Long Sun.
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