Book description
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 out in the wilderness. In THE FIFTH
HEAD OF CERBERUS, Gene Wolfe brilliantly interweaves three tales: a
scientists son gradual discovery of the bizarre secret of his heritage;
a young mans mythic dreamquest for his darker half; the mystifying
chronicle of an anthropologist's seemingly-arbitrary imprisonment.
Gradually, a mesmerising pattern emerges. Gene Wolfe (1930 -). Gene
Wolfe was born in New York in 1930 and raised in Texas. After serving in
the Korean War he graduated in mechanical engineering from the
University of Houston and worked in engineering until becoming an editor
of a trade periodical, Plant Engineering, in 1972. Since retiring from
this post in 1984, he has written full-time. The author of over three
dozen award-wining novels and story collections, he is regarded as one
of modern fantasy's most important writers. His best-known work, the
four volume far-future Book of the New Sun, won the World Fantasy, BSFA,
Nebula, British Fantasy and John W. Campbell memorial Awards. He has won
the World Fantasy Award four times for his novels and collections and
the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award for his extraordinary body of
work. Gene Wolfe lives in Illinois with his wife, Rosemary.
