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SciFi Fantasy Book Club: The Fifth Head of Cerebus

  • Solid State Books 600 H Street Northeast Washington, DC, 20002 United States (map)

Come by for Sci Fi Book Club at Solid State Books, discussing The Fifth Head of Cerebus

This will be an in-person meeting

Far from Earth, two sister planets, Saint Anne and Saint Croix, circle each other in an eternal dance. It is said a race of shapeshifters once lived here, only to perish when men came. But one man believes they can still be found, somewhere in the back of the beyond.

In The Fifth Head of Cerberus, Gene Wolfe skillfully interweaves three bizarre tales to create a mesmerizing pattern: the harrowing account of the son of a mad genius who discovers his hideous heritage; a young man's mythic dreamquest for his darker half; and the bizarre chronicle of a scientist's nightmarish imprisonment. Like an intricate, braided knot, the pattern at last unfolds to reveal astonishing truths about this strange and savage alien landscape.