Sun Tzu and dated his lifetime to 544–496 BC. Modern scholars accepting his historicity nonetheless place the existing text of "The Art of War" in the later Warring States period based upon its style of composition and its descriptions of warfare. Traditional accounts state that the general's descendant Sun Bin also wrote a treatise on military tactics, also titled "The Art of War". Since both Sun Wu and Sun Bin were referred to as Sun Tzu in classical Chinese texts, some historians believed them identical prior to the rediscovery of Sun Bin's treatise in 1972. Sun Tzu's work has been praised and
The Book of the Long Sun the original "New Sun" is made clear. The Mythopoeic Society considered "The Book of the Sun" as a whole for annual literary awards. It was one of five finalists for the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award in 1997. "Locus" magazine and the American SF writers considered the volumes separately for "Best Novel" awards. A young priest Patera Silk tries to save his "manteion" (neighborhood church and school) from destruction by a ruthless crime lord. As he learns more about his world, a vast generation ship called the Whorl, he learns to distrust the gods he has worshiped and to revere the supposedly