This new Tor Essentials edition of Shadow & Claw contains a new introduction by historian and novelist Ada Palmer, author of the award-winning Too Like the Lightning. Publication Order of Urth: Book of the New Sun Books The Shadow of the Torturer, (1980) The Claw of the Conciliator, (1981) The Sword of the Lictor, (1982). It represents (in Wolfe's terms) the 'do-nothing' future, the future in which the human race neither destroys the world through some great catastrophe, nor learns to manage it wisely. 'A masterpiece.the best science fiction I've read in years!' -Ursula K. The world of New Sun is heavily influenced by, and in part a tribute to, Jack Vance's 'Dying Earth,' but it is quite different from that world. The Claw of the Conciliator continues the saga of Severian, banished from his home, as he undertakes a mythic quest to discover the awesome power of an ancient relic and learn the truth about his hidden destiny. 10 lucky Fabulous readers will win a copy of this new novel in this weeks book competition.

The Shadow of the Torturer is the first volume in this four-volume epic, the tale of young Severian, an apprentice to the Guild of Torturers on the world called Urth, exiled for committing the ultimate sin of his profession- showing mercy toward his victim. There are several Guilds in the Citadel of Nessus. THE BOOK OF THE NEW SUN is unanimously acclaimed as Wolfe's most remarkable work, hailed as 'a masterpiece of science fantasy comparable in importance to the major works of Tolkien and Lewis' by Publishers Weekly and 'one of the most ambitious works of speculative fiction in the twentieth century' by the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Gene Wolfe has been called the finest writer the science fiction world has yet produced by the Washington Post.

'A major work of twentieth-century American literature.Wolfe creates a truly alien social order that the reader comes to experience from within.once into it, there is no stopping.' - The New York Times on The Book of the New Sun The long awaited audiobook sequel to Gene Wolfe's four-volume classic, The Book of the New Sun.Listeners return to the world of Severian, now the Autarch of Urth, as he leaves the planet on one of the huge spaceships of the alien Hierodules to travel across time and space to. Print Shadow and Claw - The First Half of the Book of the New Sun

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