The Book Of The New Sun

Volume 1 : Shadow and Claw

By: Gene Wolfe, Alastair Reynolds (Introduction by)

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Hardcover | 1 September 2011 | Edition Number 1

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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.

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.

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