The fifth head of Cerberus
three novellas
by Gene Wolfe
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From the back cover Ace Books paperback September 1981:
Sainte Croix and Sainte Anne... sister planets where the lives of humans and aliens merge like dreams and twist into nightmare. A haunting, lyrical, finally chilling triptych:
-- John March, Terran anthropologist, searches for the truth about the vanished aboriginal culture of the sister planets.
-- Sandwalker, an abo child, searches for Eastwind, the long-lost twin brother he has met only in dreams.
-- Number 5, reared in a Sainte Croix brothel, searches for his identity in a world of genetically engineered aliens clothed in human bodies -- and human memories.
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This collection originally published, New York , Scribner, 1972 ; London , Gollancz, 1973.
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"When I was a boy my brother David and I had to go to bed early whether we were sleepy or not."
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Bien loin de la Terre, deux planètes soeurs, Sainte-Anne et Sainte-Croix, ont été colonisées par des Français qui ont détruit la population indigène de la seconde. Des décennies plus tard, après que les colons ont été eux-mêmes vaincus et dispersés, un ethnologue consacre sa vie à retrouver les traces de cette culture effacée et oubliée.
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