Series
Solar Cycle
Gene Wolfe · 12 novels · 2 novelettes · 4 short stories · 1980–2001
- Genre
- Theme
- Place
- Time
- Tone
- Audience
- Form
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Book of The New Sun(7 works)
- Book of The Long Sun(4 works)
- Book of the Short Sun(3 works)
- Omnibus editions(7 editions)
Map
Solar Cycle at the centre, 3 subseries around it, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1980s10
- 1990s6
- 2000s2
Shape
12 novels · 2 novelettes · 4 short stories
1 author · completed series
reads like:science fantasyquestsother star systemsfar futurechallengingadult
Mood
Grim and calm: 47% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 5%.
grim · intensebright · intensegrim · calmbright · calmtenseadventurousdarkeeriefunnylightheartedrelaxingsadcatalogthis series
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book17 of 18 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Shadow of the Torturerdarkest · most intense
- The Mapbrightest · calmest