Synopses & Reviews
Essential reading for any fan of the four-volume Book of the New Sun. Severian, now the Autarch of Urth, leaves the planet on the huge spaceship of the Heirodules to travel across space and time to face his greatest test to become the New Sun or be destroyed.
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"Another brilliantly inventive, dense, demanding, at times intellectually stunning effort. Dazzling." Kirkus Reviews
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"The Urth of the New Sun is a fine coda to what is arguable the finest piece of literature American science fiction has yet produced, the four-volume Book of the New Sun." Chicago Sun-Times
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"Gene Wolfe's...The Book of the New Sun is one of the modern masterpieces of imaginative literature....Readers familiar with these volumes will find much to enjoy in The Urth of the new Sun." The New York Times
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"Gene Wolfe's new book soars, falls free, runs like the river that runs through it from universe to universe, between life and death and life again. The groundnote of it all is human pain, so that this fantasy has the weight of vision." Ursula K. Le Guin
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"Wolfe demonstrates his mastery of both style and content in this complex, multilayered story of one man's eternal quest. Containing enough background material to make it accessible to series newcomers, this sequel...is highly recommended." Library Journal
Synopsis
A Hugo and Nebula Award nominee, The Urth of the New Sun is the long awaited sequel to science fiction Grand Master Gene Wolfe's four-volume classic, The Book of the New Sun.
We 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 face his greatest test, to become the legendary New Sun or die.
The strange, rich, original spaceship scenes give way to travels in time, wherein Severian revisits times and places which fill in parts of the background of the four-volume work, that will thrill and intrigue particularly all readers of the earlier books. But The Urth of the New Sun is an independent structure all of a piece, an integral masterpiece to shelve beside the classics, one itself.
About the Author
Gene Wolfe has been called "the finest writer the science fiction world has yet produced" by
The Washington Post. A former engineer, he has written numerous books and won a variety of awards for his SF writing.