Calde of the Long Sun
The Third Volume of the Book of the Long Sun
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4.7 • 15 Ratings
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Publisher Description
A Nebula Award Finalist and Winner of the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel, Caldé of the Long Sun is the third volume in science fiction Grand Master Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun tetralogy.
Journeying aboard the generational starship the Whorl, the young priest Patera Silk becomes a prophet and revolutionary as he questions his faith while confronting a crime lord in a saga where "[Wolfe] continues to prove himself one of the genre's most literate writers and luminescent thinkers" (Library Journal).
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
If ever an SF writer's work justified semiotic analysis, it is Wolfe's incredibly detailed narratives, interwoven with frequent temporal backtracking that requires meticulous attention. This third volume of a projected four in the Long Sun series (after Nightside the Long Sun and Lake of the Long Sun) continues Patera Silk's quest to save his ``manteion,'' or temple, in the Holy City of Viron from the villainous Blood and to bring peace to The Whorl, a starship so large most of its inhabitants believe they live on a planet. Silk discovers Blood's origin and deals with the ruling Ayuntamiento (with plenty of violent and pyrotechnic action) while readers gain a deeper understanding of several characters-especially Silk, Maytera Rose and one Colonel Oosik. Several incidental details (the term ``calde,'' for instance) hint at a Muslim background, but the action-especially the assault on the Bastille-like Alambrera-suggest events of the French Revolution. This volume can be read independently, but readers familiar with previous volumes may better appreciate the earlier themes reiterated here. Still, the narrative, even in its deliberate moments of misdirection, is resonant and pleasurable.
