Series: The Book Of The New Sun
by Author Gene Wolfe
The Sword of the Lictor (1986)
ORIGINALLY POSTED AT Fantasy Literature.Gene Wolfe’s The Sword of the Lictor essentially contains no plot, but it’s the best plotless book I’ve ever read. It’s one of the best books I’ve ever read, period. I loved every moment of it! (I read this on audio; Audible Frontiers' audio version, read b...
The Claw of the Conciliator (1982)
http://www.rantingdragon.com/the-claw...The Claw of the Conciliator is the second entry in Gene Wolfe’s masterpiece series, The Book of the New Sun. Like the preceding volume, The Shadow of the Torturer, The Claw of the Conciliator was critically acclaimed, receiving the Nebula Award for best nov...
The Shadow of the Torturer (1984)
Wolfe has an almost legendary status amongst fellow authors; Gaiman called him 'a ferocious intellect', Swanwick said he's "the greatest writer in the English language alive today", and Disch called this series "a tetralogy of couth, intelligence, and suavity".You can rarely trust the popular mar...
The Urth of the New Sun (1997)
Having loved the original Book of the New Sun I was excited to find out about the existence of this sequel. Considering that the main series is pretty popular, I was surprised by how difficult it was to get hold of a copy and how little awareness of it there seems to be. I don't know why that is,...
Sword & Citadel (1994)
This volume picks up and concludes Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun quartet. Most readers will be absolutely lost without reading the first two volumes.Re-entering Wolfe's vision of the future, the tone is the same. Severian is as preachy and detached as ever, though readers will be relieved to u...
Shadow & Claw (1994)
Wolfe has an almost legendary status amongst fellow authors; Gaiman called him 'a ferocious intellect', Swanwick said he's "the greatest writer in the English language alive today", and Disch called this series "a tetralogy of couth, intelligence, and suavity".You can rarely trust the popular mar...
The Citadel of the Autarch (1983)
Gene Wolfe’s deceptively long Book of the New Sun comes to a close with this, the final volume, The Citadel of the Autarch. (Actually, that’s not quite true – he apparently wrote an extra book in 1987 called The Urth of the New Sun, which I may or may not read in the future.)This was a difficult ...