The Book of the New Sun - Hardcover

Wolfe, Gene

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1568658079 ISBN 13: 9781568658070

Publisher: Science Fiction Book Club, 1998

Synopsis

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 second two volumes of this four volume novel, The Sword of the Lictor and The Citadel of the Autarch.

About this title

About the Author:

SALES POINTS * #12 in the Millennium Fantasy Masterworks series, a library of the most original and influential fantasy ever written * 'The final two volumes of one of the greatest novels ever written' Kim Stanley Robinson * 'A masterpiece. Totally original, new, incomparable; the beginning of something great' Ursula Le Guin * 'One of the great science fantasy epics of all time' George R.R. Martin

About the Author:

Gene Wolfe was born in New York and raised in Texas. He trained as a mechanical engineer, but began to publish short stories in the 1960s. He won a World Fantasy Award for THE SHADOW OF THE TORTURER and a Nebula for THE CLAW OF THE CONCILIATOR. He is a World Fantasy Life Achievement winner.

About this edition

• Publisher: Science Fiction Book Club
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1568658079
• ISBN 13: 9781568658070
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 950