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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) half covering one of the
two series. "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.
Lexicon Urthus is an alphabetical dictionary for the complete Urth
Cycle by Gene Wolfe: The Shadow of the Torturer; The Claw of the
Conciliator; The Sword of the Lictor; The Citadel of the Autarch;
the sequel Urth of the New Sun; the novella Empires of Foliage and
Flower; the short stories "The Cat," "The Map," and "The Old Woman
Whose Rolling Pin Is the Sun"; and Gene Wolfe's own commentaries in
The Castle of the Otter. The first edition was nominated for a
World Fantasy Award. This second edition includes over 1,200
entries. When the first edition was published, Science Fiction Age
said: "Lexicon Urthus makes a perfect gift for any fan of [Wolfe's]
work, and from the way his words sell, it appears that there are
many deserving readers out there waiting." Gary K. Wolfe, in Locus,
said: "A convenient and well researched glossary of names and
terms. . . . It provides enough of a gloss on the novels that it
almost evokes Wolfe's distant future all by itself. . . . It can
provide both a useful reference and a good deal of fun." Donald
Keller said, in the New York Review of Science Fiction: "A fruitful
product of obsession, this is a thorough . . . dictionary of the
Urth Cycle. . . . Andre-Driussi's research has been exhaustive, and
he has discovered many fascinating things . . . [it is]
head-spinning to confront a myriad of small and large details, some
merely interesting, others jawdropping."
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