On the same day, however, he learns his manteion had been sold for back taxes and may well be dismantled. Patera Silk, a young priest in one of the city of Viron's poorest temples (``manteions''), receives a mental message from one of his gods, an enlightenment which invests his life with urgent meaning. Wolfe's first novel since Pandora by Holly Hollander (1990) is a vivid and compelling evocation of life inside an interstellar spacecraft so huge that a whole world of cities and wildernesses exists within it, and so old that its origins and purpose are mere legends to its inhabitants.
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