Calde of the Long Sun (Book of the Long Sun)

Great! The gods are fighting, the pope is fighting the gods, the chems and the bios are fighting, Silk is Calde and in love, Oreb is a Good bird. I stand with Mytera Mint! Also listen to Alzabo Soup podcast as you read Wolfe's books

This book is where it starts to get tough to keep going in the Long Sun series. The story takes some unexpected turns. There are some parts that just don't make sense on a first read. There are some parts that just aren't exciting.

But there's also some good stuff. The first chapter, with it's Garden of Eden imagery, sets up some ideas that will keep going through this series and the next. We learn some unsettling things about the gods worshipped in Viron, and it sheds more light on the state religion and what's going on in the world. And if nothing else, this book is required reading on the road to the Short Sun series, which many consider to be Wolfe's masterpiece.