“A welcome addition from one of the genre's most literate and thoughtful authors; highly recommended.”
—Library Journal (starred review)
“[Wolfe] is so much fun. He doesn't just do his homework on the ancient world, he plays hopscotch with it. The narrative—vivid, dramatic, and irremediably fragmented—is like ancient history itself, full of unanswered questions.”
—Gillian Bradshaw
“Wolfe's mastery of the language is on full display. … Excellent tale of adventure in an Egypt filled with politics, mischievous gods, and conniving women.”
—SF Signal
“Superb historical fantasy.”
—The Grand Rapids Press
Praise for Soldier of the Mist
“Here is a challenge no writer but Wolfe could have taken up and no reader will be able to put down.”
—The Christian Science Monitor
“Gene Wolfe has entered the ranks of those rare imaginative talents whose work will justly be regarded as classic for generations to come.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
Praise for Soldier of Arete