Free Live Free
"Free Live Free," said the newspaper ad, and the out-of-work detective Jim Stubb, the occultist Madame Serpentina, the salesman Ozzie Barnes, and the overweight prostitute Candy Garth are brought together to live for a time in Free's old house, a house scheduled for demolition to make way for a highway. Free drops mysterious hints of his exile from his homeland, and of the lost key to his return. And so when demolition occurs and Free disappears, the four make a pact to continue the search, which ultimately takes them far beyond their wildest dreams. This is character-driven science fiction at its best by a writer whom, at the time of its first publication, the Chicago Sun-Times called "science fiction's best genuine novelist."
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Gollancz
- Year
- 1999
- ISBN-13
- 9781466832428
- Genre
- Science FictionFantasy
- Topics
- Quest for identityFound familyMystery of a vanished benefactor
Awards
- Nebula Award for Best NovelShortlisted(1986)
- BSFA Award for Best NovelShortlisted(1985)
- Locus Award for Best Science Fiction NovelShortlisted(1985)
Other awarded books from Gene Wolfe
- The Sword of the Lictor
- The Claw of the Conciliator
- The Shadow of the Torturer
- Soldier of the Mist
- Soldier of Sidon
- The Citadel of the Autarch
- The Urth of the New Sun
- The Wizard Knight
- Nightside the Long Sun
- Soldier of Arete
- The Land Across
- A Borrowed Man
- An Evil Guest
- Calde of the Long Sun
- The Knight
- Caldé of the Long Sun
- Castleview
- Exodus from the Long Sun
- Home Fires
- In Green's Jungles
- Interlibrary Loan
- On Blue's Waters
- Pirate Freedom
- Return to the Whorl
- The Book of the Long Sun
- The Sorcerer's House
- There Are Doors
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