Russell's ebook Library
Calde of the Long Sun
Gene Wolfe
Urth: Book of the Long Sun [3]: When young augur Patera Silk emerges from his exploration of the underground passages of the Whorl, it is to find Viron engulfed in revolutionary violence - and himself hailed as leader of the uprising.As war threatens...
The Citadel of the Autarch
Gene Wolfe
Urth: Book of the New Sun [4]: Severian the Torturer continues his epic journey across the lands of Urth, carrying with him the Claw of the Conciliator and the great sword, Terminus Est. All his travels are leading towards a destiny that he dare not ...
The Claw of the Conciliator
Gene Wolfe
Urth: Book of the New Sun [2]: Recently voted the greatest fantasy of all time after The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun is an extraordinary epic, set a million years in the future, on an Earth transformed in my...
Exodus From the Long Sun
Gene Wolfe
Urth: Book of the Long Sun [4]: It is the far future, and the giant spaceship, The Whorl, has traveled for forgotten generations toward its destination. Lit inside by the artificial Long Sun, The Whorl is so huge that whole cities can be seen in the ...
The Fifth Head of Cerberus
Gene Wolfe
Far from Earth two sister planets, Sainte Anne and Sainte Croix, circle each other. It is said that a race of shapeshifting aliens once lived here, only to become extinct when human colonists arrived. But one man believes they still exist, somewhere ...
Free Live Free
Gene Wolfe
"Free Live Free," said the newspaper ad, and the out-of-work detective Jim Stubb, the occultist Madame Serpentina, the salesman Ozzie Barnes, and the overweight prostitute Candy Garth are brought together to live for a time in Free's old house, a hou...
The Knight
Gene Wolfe
Wizard Knight [1]: A young man in his teens is transported from our world to a magical realm that contains seven levels of reality.Very quickly transformed by magic into a grown man of heroic proportions, he takes the name Able and sets out on a ques...
Lake of the Long Sun
Gene Wolfe
Urth: Book of the Long Sun [2]: It is the far future, and the giant spaceship, The Whorl, has travelled for forgotten generation towards its destination.Lit inside by the artificial Long Sun, The Whorl is so huge that you can see whole cities in the ...
Nightside the Long Sun
Gene Wolfe
Urth: Book of the Long Sun [1]: Enormous in breadth and scope, Wolfe's ambitious new work opens out into a world of wonders, of gods and humans, aliens and machines, and mysterious adventures far out in space and deep inside the human spirit. It is s...
The Shadow of Torturer
Gene Wolfe
Urth: Book of the New Sun [1]: Recently voted the greatest fantasy of all time after The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun is an extraordinary epic, set a million years in the future, on an Earth transformed in my...
Soldier of the Mist
Gene Wolfe
Soldier of the Mist [1]: The first volume of Gene Wolfe's powerful story of Latro, a Roman mercenary who received a head injury that deprived him of his short-term memory.In return it gave him the ability to converse with supernatural creatures, gods...
The Sword of the Lictor
Gene Wolfe
Urth: Book of the New Sun [3]: Banished for the sin of mercy, Severian, one of the ancient guild of Torturers, flees from exile. In a mountain wilderness he meets the Alzabo, in whom those eaten seem to live on, adopts as son only to lose him in batt...
The Urth of the New Sun
Gene Wolfe
Urth: Book of the New Sun [5]: Gene Wolfe's four-volume magnum opus, "The Book of the New Sun" is one of the modern masterpieces of imaginative literature - an evocation of a world so far in the future that magic and technology, poetry and science, a...
The Wizard
Gene Wolfe
Wizard Knight [2]: Sir Able returns to Mythgathr on his steed Cloud, a great mare the color of her name.Able is filled with new knowledge of the ways of the seven-fold world and possessed of great magical secrets. His knighthood now beyond question, ...
