title: Calde of the Long Sun (Book of the Long Sun)
author:  Gene Wolfe 
description: Patera Silk, a young priest aboard the generation ship known as the Whorl, finds himself both the unwitting leader of a band of revolutionaries and the pawn of godlike forces trying to reshape a stagnant society. The latest installment in Wolfe's "Book of the Long Sun" series offers tantalizing hints of an ancient history lost to the Whorl's inhabitants. The author continues to prove himself one of the genre's most literate writers and luminescent thinkers. A familiarity with earlier series books is helpful but not absolutely necessary. Most libraries should own this title.<br />Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text:                      CALDE OF THE LONG SUN
                           by Gene Wolfe
               
                    Chapter 1 -- The Slaves of Scylla
  As unruffled by the disturbances shaking the city as by the furious
  thunderstorm that threatened with every gust to throw down its
  shiprock and return its mud brick to the parent mud, His Cognizance
  Patera Quetzal, Prolocutor of the Chapter of This Our Holy
  City of Viron, studied his present sere and sallow features in the
  polished belly of the silver teapot.
      As at this hour each day, he swung his head to the right and
  contemplated his nearly noseless profile, made a similar inspection
  of its obverse, and elevated his chin to display a lengthy and 
  notably
  wrinkled neck. He had shaped and colored face and neck with care
  upon arising, as he did every morning; nevertheless, there remained
  the possibility (however remote) that something had gone awry by
  ten: thus the present amused but painstaking self-examination.
      "For I am a careful 