Nebula and World Fantasy Awards Winners

The Book of the New Sun
A Story of a Future Earth
by Gene Wolfe

Gene Wolfe's tells us a story of strange places, inhabited by strange people and even stranger beings, ruled by cultures alien from anything we know, and natural laws that transcends science and magic, blending into something unique. But "The Book of the New Sun" is nevertheless set on our own planet, Urth, in the far future when the sun is dying. This makes a great gift for anyone who has annoyed you by knowing too much Latin. Click on the image of a book to see a larger version of the cover.

Shadow & Claw - Contains The Shadow of the Torturer - 1980 Nebula Award Winner - 1981 World Fantasy Award Winner - and The Claw of the Conciliator - 1981 Nebula Award Winner - 1982 Hugo Award Nominee

Tor/Orb trade paperback, 6th printing, No date, 413 pages, Very good condition.

Sword & Citadel - Contains The Sword of the Lictor - 1982 Nebula Award Winner - 1983 Hugo Award Nominee - and The Citadel of the Autarch - 1983 Nebula Award Winner

Tor/Orb trade paperback, 4th printing, No date, 411 pages, Very good condition.

This is the first-person narrative of Severian, a lowly apprentice torturer blessed and cursed with a photographic memory, whose travels lead him through the marvels of far-future Urth, and who - as revealed near the beginning - eventually becomes his land's sole ruler or Autarch. On the surface it's a colorful story with all the classic ingredients: growing up, adventure, sex, betrayal, murder, exile, battle, monsters, and mysteries to be solved. For lovers of literary allusions, they are plenty here: a Dickensian cemetery scene, a torture-engine from Kafka, a wonderful library out of Borges, and familiar fables changed by eons of retelling. Wolfe evokes a chilly sense of time's vastness, with an age-old, much-restored painting of a golden-visored "knight," really an astronaut standing on the moon, and an ancient citadel of metal towers, actually grounded spacecraft. Even the sun is senile and dying, and so Urth needs a new sun.

The Urth of the New Sun - 1988 Nebula Award Winner - 1988 Hugo Award Nominee - Severian, now the Autarch of Urth, must travel to the Universe of Yesod in a gigantic starship, there to stand trial as a representative of Urth. If he succeeds, he will bring the New Sun - a white fountain that will energize the old sun and somehow re-vitalize Urth as well, even if this quickening will be painful and cost many lives.

Tor paperback, First mass market printing, September 1988, 372 pages, Good condition. gene wolf jean wolf jean wolfe

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NEAR MINT	May have very light edge or corner wear on the jacket, or a slight dent or mar on the hardcover. No stains or creases on the pages.
VERY GOOD	Has light edge or corner wear or some small damage here and there on the jacket, or a slight dent, crease and mar on the hardcover. Light creases or stains on some pages.
GOOD	Has edge or corner wear and some small damage or rips on the jacket, or some dents, creases, faded spots, and wear on the hardcover. Pages may have stains, creases, and small tears.
FAIR	Has edge and corner wear with damage, missing pieces, soiled spots and rips on the jacket, or some dents, creases, worn spots, soiled areas on the hardcover. Some pages have stains, creases and rips but all pages there and book still fairly tight.
POOR	Meaning dust jacket may be in tatters and soiled. The hardcover has dents, creases, heavy wear spots and soiled areas. The pages dirty and or torn, still fairly tight but all there. Just a reading copy.