The Land Across (41 page)

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Gene Wolfe has won the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement and many other awards. In 2007, he was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. In 2013, he received the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award. He lives in Barrington, Illinois.

This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

THE LAND ACROSS

Copyright © 2013 by Gene Wolfe

All rights reserved.

Cover photography by Stephen Carroll, David et Myrtille/Trevillion Images

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

Wolfe, Gene.

       The land across / Gene Wolfe.—First Edition.

           p. cm.

       “A Tom Doherty Associates Book.”

       ISBN 978-0-7653-3595-1 (hardcover)

       ISBN 978-1-4668-2635-9 (e-book)

      1.  Travel writers—Fiction.   2.  Corruption—Fiction.   3.  Fantasy fiction.   I.  Title.

   PS3573.O52L36 2013

   813'.54—dc23

2013022126

e-ISBN 9781466826359

First Edition: November 2013