Lake 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 | 9780312854942 |
Synopsis
Patera Silk, a dedicated young augur of the decaying city of Viron, has made a pact with the wealthy and sinister Blood in an attempt to ransom his parish from its creditors. In doing so he embarks on a quest that begins to reveal to him the hidden secrets and true nature of his world, a huge generation starship, the Whorl, lit and warmed by the artificial Long Sun, and uncovers a larger conspiracy involving Viron's government and even the gods he worships. His search takes him to Lake Limna and a shrine that conceals an entrance to the ship's subsurface passages, to rooms with strange machines, stranger beings and windows. Emerging with his new knowledge, he finds himself chosen as Caldé, leader of the people, and at the same time arrested. The second volume of The Book of the Long Sun.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Book of the New Sun
- Series: The Book of the Long Sun ; position 2 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 2 of 4: previous Nightside the Long Sun (1993) · next Caldé of the Long Sun (1994)
Sources
- The Book of the Long Sun (Wikipedia)
- Tor (publisher description, via Risingshadow)
- Publishers Weekly (review)
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