Book of the New Sun
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Gene Wolfe
Recently voted the greatest fantasy of all time, after The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun is an extraordinary epic, set a million years in the future, on an Earth transformed in mysterious and wondrous ways, in a time when our present culture is no longer even a memory. Severian, the central character, is a torturer, exiled from his guild after falling in love with one of his victims, and journeying to the distant city of Thrax, armed with his ancient executioner's sword, Terminus Est. This edition contains the first two volumes of this four volume novel, The Shadow of the Torturer and The Claw of the Conciliator
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Author
Gene Wolfe
Pages
608
Publisher
Millennium
Published Date
2000
ISBN
1857989775 9781857989779
Ratings
Google: 5
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"Has anyone else read the book of the new sun? What are your thoughts? I am on the first book of the series!"
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Alex Close
"Absolutely. Wolfe's one of the few genre authors who writes prose worthy of being called "literary" to me. It's also excellent on repeat reads. Could not recommend it enough."
Nick
"Absolutely! I’m currently reading the sequel, Urth of the New Sun"
Zachary Dennis
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