Titles
The working title for the series was Starcrosser's Landfall, and dust jacket mockups of the first volume were printed with that title. In the defense at the end of the final volume, the author refers to it alternately as The Book of the Long Sun, Starcrosser's Landfall, and The Book of Silk.
In the event, The Book of the Long Sun was published in four volumes, almost simultaneously in the U.S. (Tor Books imprint, Tom Doherty Associates) and U.K. (New English Library imprint, Hodder & Stoughton). The Tor hardcover editions (see table) were almost 1500 pages long in sum.
| Title, Imprint, Date | ISBN | Notes |
|---|---|---|
Nightside the Long Sun
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0-312-85207-X | Nebula Award for Best Novel, one of six finalists |
Lake of the Long Sun
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0-312-85494-3 | |
Caldé of the Long Sun
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0-312-85583-4 | Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel, rank 9 Nebula Award finalist |
Exodus from the Long Sun
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0-312-85585-0 | Locus Fantasy Novel, rank 10 |
In the U.S., both the first two books when available in 1994 and the last two in 1997 were bound together by a science fiction book club ("GuildAmerica Books / SFBC" in ISFDB). There is a two-volume trade paperback edition of the whole since November 2000 (Orb Books imprint, Tom Doherty). The Orb editions run 543 and 718 pages and ISFDB lists no single-volume edition.
| Title, Imprint, Date | ISBN | Notes |
|---|---|---|
Litany of the Long Sun
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0-312-87291-7 | The Book of the Long Sun, books 1 and 2 |
Epiphany of the Long Sun
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0-312-86072-2 | The Book of the Long Sun, books 3 and 4 |
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