Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun' (New Sun)
 

Shadow & Claw: The First Half of the Book of the New Sun : The Shadow of the Torturer/the Claw of the Conciliator (Wolfe, Gene. Book of the New Sun, V. 1-2.)

by Gene Wolfe

One of the most acclaimed "science fantasies" ever, Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun is a long, magical novel in four volumes. Shadow & Claw contains the first two: The Shadow of the Torturer and The Claw of the Conciliator, which respectively won the World Fantasy and Nebula Awards.
This is the first-person narrative of Severian, a lowly apprentice torturer blessed and cursed... (read more)

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A million years in the future, history has collapsed under its own weight. Aliens have condemned humanity to remain trapped on their own world and shortened the lifespan of the sun as well. The fate of Urth rests with a young member of the torturer's guild exiled for the transgression of mercy.

A classic of imagination, this science fiction/fantasy series is one of the few which deserves to be counted as "literature", among other such richly imagined worlds as Lord of the Rings or...

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  • Larro

    larro said:

    Indeed strange and thoroughly engrossing. Wow, just thought this would make for great anime.

    posted Monday, July 9 2007
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