There Are Doors

Name: There Are Doors
ISBN: 9781466828247

by Gene Wolfe · first published 1988

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There Are Doors is the story of a man who falls in love with a goddess from an alternate universe. She flees him, but he pursues her through doorways-interdimensional gateways-to the other place, determined to sacrifice his life, if necessary, for her love. For in her world, to be her mate . . . is to die.

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anatoly · Dec 23, 2015 · Recommends

…any other stars and galaxies, and so doomed to a lone struggle with its own long history. A wealth of technological and social ideas you'd expect from Banks. The ending felt a bit forced. Gene Wolfe, There Are Doors. Gene Wolfe, Nightsite of the Long Sun/Lake of the Long Sun. Gene Wolfe is the best writer American science fiction produced in the last half-century. "There are Doors" is a pretty weird fantasy novel…
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kovrik · Dec 19, 2022 · Recommends

Gene Wolfe. The whole Solar Cycle (The Book of the New Sun, Urth of The New Sun, The Book of The Long Sun, The Book of The Short Sun), Fifth Head of Cerberus, Peace, There Are Doors, The Sorcerer's House ... . Wolfe is a genius. Before that I also finished Malazan.
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glangdale · Jan 5, 2021 · Recommends

I'm very fond of Gene Wolfe, but for people who want an intro to his oeuvre I would strongly recommend "There Are Doors" over Book of the New Sun. Not because I dislike BotNS, but it's a real door-stopper slab of a tetralogy (a pentalogy if you count "Urth"). To me There Are Doors really punches way above its weight.
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glangdale · Jun 22, 2019 · Recommends

Wolfe is terrific, and terrifically underrated. Some of his efforts I find unreadable ("The Knight", "The Wizard Knight") and some banal, but when he's good, he's really good. "There Are Doors" is my personal favourite - low key, complex and affecting. The Book of the New Sun is probably the most famous (and deservedly so) and it also bears rereading. Just as pleasing is the fact that the…
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