Caldé of the Long Sun
novel 1994 The Book of the New Sun
Record
| First published | 1994 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780312855833 |
Synopsis
When the young augur Patera Silk emerges from his exploration of the underground passages of the Whorl, he finds his city of Viron engulfed in revolutionary violence, and himself hailed as leader of the uprising that would make him Caldé, the city's ruler, an office long suspended. Caught in a bloody web of politics and revolution, the god-touched Silk must fight the machinations of the shadowy group that rules Viron, while one of the sibyls of his manteion, Maytera Mint, is seized by revolutionary zeal and leads the people into insurrection, and Silk falls in love with the courtesan Hyacinth. As war threatens his world, the Long Sun itself seems to undergo ominous changes. The third volume of The Book of the Long Sun, a Nebula Award finalist.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Book of the New Sun
- Series: The Book of the Long Sun ; position 3 of 4 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Gene Wolfe
Notes
- From the series record (The Book of the Long Sun): Set in the same universe (catalogued together with New Sun and Short Sun as the 'Solar Cycle') but follows a different protagonist, Patera Silk, in a generation ship's enclosed world, standing independently of Severian's story. Registered as Expanded rather than folded into Core: same shared universe, but a separate storyline with no shared protagonist -- Short Sun (below) is what draws the explicit connective line back to Severian.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series The Book of the Long Sun: position 3 of 4: previous Lake of the Long Sun (1994) · next Exodus from the Long Sun (1996)
Sources
- The Book of the Long Sun (Wikipedia)
- Tor (publisher description, via Risingshadow)
- Tor (publisher description, via ebooks.com)
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