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Nightside the Long Sun

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The first volume of a four-book novel of mystery, war and revolution set in a world existing inside a giant spaceship sent from Urth to colonize a distant planet. Wolfe's new work returns to the world of his acclaimed Book of the New Sun and will captivate readers hungry for the magic of the future.

Themes
religion
Subject
science
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 333 pages

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