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Authors: Gene Wolfe

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SHIELDS AWAKENED in a high, wide bed in a wide, dim room. A band of watery gray light shimmered between heavy brocade drapes, and once he saw a hammerhead shark drift past, hanging motionless in the current like some pale hawk. A pale hawk also was the silver scabbard that hung motionless above him, suspended, as it seemed, from the canopy.

A woman bent above him, her hair falling upon his still hands in floods of heavy gold. “Sleep,” she whispered. “Rest you, O my lover. Sleep, O my brother, and be well.”

By Gene Wolfe from Tom Doherty Associates

Novels
The Fifth Head of Cerberus
The Devil in a Forest
Peace
Free Live Free
The Urth of the New Sun
Soldier of the Mist
Soldier of Arete
There Are Doors
Castleview
Pandora by Holly Hollander

Novellas
The Death of Doctor Island
Seven American Nights

Collections
Endangered Species
Storeys from the Old Hotel
Castle of Days

The Book of the New Sun
Shadow and Claw
(comprising
The Shadow of the Torturer
and
The Claw of the Conciliator)
Sword and Citadel
(comprising
The Sword of the Lictor
and
The Citadel of the Autarch)

The Book of the Long Sun
Nightside the Long Sun
Lake of the Long Sun
Caldé of the Long Sun
Exodus from the Long Sun

“Wolfe has created his usual splendid cast of characters. He also builds suspense in a way that highly financed horror writers could study, to their readers’ greater profit if not their own.”

—
Chicago Sun-Times

“Sentence by sentence, Mr. Wolfe writes as well as anyone in science fiction today.”

—
The New York Times Book Review

“What makes his work special is the magical way he uses language to create scenes, relationships, and images to embroider his stories.”

—
Science Fiction Chronicle

“Gene Wolfe is among the best writers working in this country … . In Wolfe’s hands, gods become human and humans godlike.”

—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram

This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are either fictitious or are used fictitiously.

CASTLEVIEW

Edited by David G. Hartwell

This book was originally published as a Tor hardcover in April 1990.

An Orb Edition
Published by Tom Doherty Associates, Inc.
175 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10010