Fifth Head of Cerberus, the (1972) [Novel]
by Gene Wolfe
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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 scientist's son gradual discovery of the bizarre secret of his heritage; a young man's mythic dreamquest for his darker half; the mystifying chronicle of an anthropologist's seemingly-arbitrary imprisonment. Gradually, a mesmerising pattern emerges.
Original title: The Fifth Head of Cerberus
Original languages:
English
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Genre: Fiction→ Science Fiction
This work is excerpted in the following works :
World Treasury of Science Fiction, the (1989) [Anthology]
Authors: Arthur C. Clarke
, Ursula K. Le Guin
, Kurt Vonnegut
, Alfred Bester
, Isaac Asimov
, Ray Bradbury
, Philip K. Dick
, Robert A. Heinlein
, John Updike
, Stanislaw Lem
, Brian W. Aldiss
, Frederik Pohl
, Samuel R. Delany
, Thomas M. Disch
, Walter M. Miller, Jr.
, Anthony Burgess
, Keith Roberts
, Larry Niven
, John Varley
, Fritz Leiber
, Henry Kuttner
, Catherine Lucille (C.L.) Moore
, Robert Bloch
, Damon Knight
, Cyril M. Kornbluth
, Robert Sheckley
, Theodore Sturgeon
, Avram Davidson
, Arkady Strugatsky
, Boris Strugatsky
, Boris Vian
, J. G. Ballard
, Gene Wolfe
, Lewis Padgett
, Italo Calvino
, Jorge Luis Borges
, Joanna Russ
, John W. Campbell
, Steve Allen
, Josef Nesvadba
, Karl-Michael Armer
, Gérard Klein
, Manuel van Loggem
, Kirill Bulychev
, Tor Ĺge Bringsvaerd
, Nathalie-Charles Henneberg
, Kono Tensei
, John Berryman
, Rene Rebetez-Cortes
, Annemarie van Ewyck
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