Love & Sleep
core novel 1994 The AEgypt Cycle
Record
| First published | 1994 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.04 (897 ratings, collected 2026-09-07) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780553096422 |
| Internal chronology | 2 |
Synopsis
Love and Sleep continues Pierce Moffett's story as he pursues his long-held theory that the world has undergone fundamental historical transformations, periods in which the basic rules governing reality, including whether magic and alchemy actually function, have shifted more than once. While researching papers left behind by a novelist he loved as a child, Pierce uncovers an unpublished sixteenth-century manuscript that appears to lend unexpected support to this theory. The discovery ripples outward to affect several people around him, including a woman he grows close to, a child dealing with epilepsy, and a dying man in search of the philosopher's stone, entangling Pierce's historical research with the more immediate, unresolved lives of those nearest to him.
Where it sits
- Universe: The AEgypt Cycle
- Series: The AEgypt Cycle core; position 2 of 4 in the series' recorded order
- Author: John Crowley
Notes
- From the series record (The AEgypt Cycle): Core Canon = all 4 novels of the completed AEgypt Cycle. The first volume was reissued in 2007 as 'The Solitudes'; this canon uses the original 1987 title.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The AEgypt Cycle: position 2 of 4: previous AEgypt (1987) · next Daemonomania (2000)
Sources
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