Gate of Horn, Book of Silk - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gate of Horn, Book of Silk write by Michael Andre-Driussi. This book was released on 2012-08-15. Gate of Horn, Book of Silk available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this companion guide, Michael Andre-Driussi illuminates Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun and Book of the Short Sun science fiction series through dictionary-style entries on the characters, gods, locations, themes, and timelines of the novels. Gate of Horn, Book of Silk, is organized in two parts, with the first half covering the Long Sun series (Nightside the Long Sun, Lake of the Long Sun, Calde of the Long Sun, and Exodus from the Long Sun) and the second half covering the Short Sun series (On Blue's Waters, In Green's Jungles, and Return to the Whorl). "Languages of the Whorl," a section between the two parts, covers all the dialect, slang, and foreign terms used in the books--thieves' cant, flier language, Tick's talk, and more. Ten maps and diagrams are included. This is Michael Andre-Driussi's third guidebook to the rich tapestries of Gene Wolfe's worlds. As fans of of Lexicon Urthus and The Wizard Knight Companion have noted, that each book is both a convenient tool for a question while re-reading the novels but also an enjoyable read in its own right, from A to Z.
Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun
Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun write by Michael Andre-Driussi. This book was released on 2019-11-11. Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A guide to Gene Wolfe's series The Book of the New Sun, and the sequel The Urth of the New Sun, as well as four shorter "New Sun" works. Designed for use by first-time readers as well as those returning to the text.
The Wizard Knight Companion
The Wizard Knight Companion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Wizard Knight Companion write by Michael Andre-Driussi. This book was released on 2009-09-01. The Wizard Knight Companion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. THE WIZARD KNIGHT COMPANION is a brief alphabetical dictionary for Gene Wolfe's two-volume THE WIZARD KNIGHT series. Its entries identify the characters in the novel, dive into the mysteries in the text, and explore the Norse, Celtic, and Arthurian sources for names and words in the novels. It includes a map of the region, a cosmology, and a synopsis of the narrative. Nominated for a World Fantasy Award, THE WIZARD KNIGHT has received high accolades from critics and fans. Many reviews highlight its rich use of European mythology; many also comment on its puzzles and mysteries. In a starred review, Booklist calls the series "a complex, even convoluted tale, with so many characters and subplots that a proper summary would far exceed the limits of a Booklist review. . . . There is hardly a piece of northern European heroic literature from which Wolfe doesn't borrow with his usual scholarly flair and in his exquisitely turned prose. . . . Arising from the same sources as Lord of the Rings, THE WIZARD KNIGHT is one of the few fantasies that can justly be compared with it." Kirkus Reviews mentions that "Wolfe likes to spin spiderwebs of plot and counterplot inside his impressively constructed universe." In The Washington Post, Bill Sheehan calls THE WIZARD "a satisfying, wide-ranging novel that contains enough marvels and mysteries (not all of which are resolved or explained) to populate an entire series." Marvels and mysteries, subplots and spiderwebs? If you love THE WIZARD KNIGHT and wish to enjoy it even more, THE WIZARD KNIGHT COMPANION is your perfect guidebook.
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection write by Gardner Dozois. This book was released on 2013-07-23. The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This anthology marks the 29th edition of the award-winning annual compilationof the year's best science fiction stories.
Browsings
Browsings - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Browsings write by Michael Dirda. This book was released on 2015-08-15. Browsings available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Michael Dirda has been hailed as "the best-read person in America" (The Paris Review) and "the best book critic in America" (The New York Observer). His latest volume collects fifty of his witty and wide-ranging reflections on a life in literature. Reaching from the classics to the post-moderns, his allusions dance from Samuel Johnson, Ralph Waldo Emerson and M. F. K. Fisher to Marilynne Robinson, Hunter S. Thompson, and David Foster Wallace. Dirda's topics are equally diverse: literary pets, the lost art of cursive writing, book inscriptions, the pleasures of science fiction conventions, author photographs, novelists in old age, Oberlin College, a year in Marseille, writer's block, and much more. As admirers of his earlier books will expect, there are annotated lists galore—of perfect book titles, great adventure novels, favorite words, books about books, and beloved children's classics, as well as a revealing peek at the titles Michael keeps on his own nightstand.Funny and erudite, Browsings is a celebration of the reading life, a fan's notes, and the perfect gift for any booklover.
