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  The Fifth Head Of Cerberus (Paperback) By (author) Gene Wolfe

  

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  Short Description for The Fifth Head Of CerberusOn the twin colony planets of Saintes Anne and Croix, civilization is a mix of the archaic and the futuristic, with slavery and advanced science co-existing. Were the shapeshifting alien inhabitants of Sainte Anne exterminated by the colonists, or did they kill the humans and adopt their identity?
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  • Publisher: Gollancz
  • Published: 08 April 1999
  • Format: Paperback 256 pages
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  • Categories: Science Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9781857988178 ISBN 10: 1857988175
  • Sales rank: 139,616

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• Far from Earth two sister planets, Sainte Anne and Sainte Croix, circle each other. It is said that a race of shapeshifting aliens once lived here, only to become extinct when human colonists arrived. But one man believes they still exist, somewhere out in the wilderness. In The Fifth Head of Cerberus, Gene Wolfe brilliantly interweaves three tales: a scientist's son gradual discovery of the bizarre secret of his heritage; a young man's mythic dreamquest for his darker half; the mystifying chronicle of an anthropologist's seemingly-arbitrary imprisonment. Gradually, a mesmerising pattern emerges.