Soldier of the Mist

(Latro #1)

Hardcover, 335 pages

English language

Published Nov. 23, 1986 by Tor.

ISBN:
9780312937348
OCLC Number:
13862377
ISFDB ID:
1174

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Soldier of the Mist is a triumphant departure into the realms of fantasy by an acknowledged master crafts- man. It follows Wolfe's Free Live Free, which The New York Times selected as one of the six distinguished SF books of 1985. The Washington Post said of Free Live Free, "It is humorous, loving, loyal and true. From an author whose sensibility is normally complex and serenely chilling, it reads like a present from the heart." Soldier of the Mist is the first book of a major work from the author of The Book of the New Sun.

From the distant future, Wolfe has turned to the fantastic historical world of Greece, in 479 B.C., when the gods walked the Earth. Latro, a mercenary soldier from the north, has suffered a head wound in battle and has been separated from his com- patriots. He has not only lost the memory of …

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Subjects

  • Soldiers -- Fiction.
  • Greece -- History -- Persian Wars, 500-449 B.C. -- Fiction.

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