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 The Book of the New Sun (1980-2) by Gene Wolfe is a series of novels set in the distant future detailing the life of an apprentice torturer. "We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their... 
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The Book of the New Sun is a novel in four parts written by science fiction and fantasy author Gene Wolfe. It chronicles the journey and ascent to power of Severian, a journeyman torturer who is exiled from the Seekers for Truth and Penitence (the guild...
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 Extrapolation The monomyth in Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun.
06/22/2005: 23,736 words, approx. 79 pages A single, continuous narrative initially published in four volumes--The Shadow of the Torturer (1980), The Claw of the Conciliator (1981), The Sword of the Lictor (1981), and The Citadel of the Autarch (1982)--and followed by a sequel, The Urth of the New Sun (1987),... summary from source:
Bookmarks Half of a Yellow Sun.(Book review)
11/01/2006: 518 words, approx. 2 pages ***** 1/2 Half of a Yellow Sun By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie A personal history of 1960s Nigeria. In 1967 the Igbo people of eastern Nigeria, one of the largest single ethnicities in Africa, broke away from the country to form the independent...
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 Critical Essay by Thomas D. Clareson
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While [science fiction fans] may continue to debate whether or not [The Book of the New Sun tetralogy] should be regarded as science fiction or fantasy, its recognition as a major work in the field has already been established. Its influence … should at least equal that of Asimov's Foundation Trilogy. To begin with, Wolfe has created Urth, an imaginary world which matches, in the richness of its detail, those worlds of The Left Hand of Darkness, Dune, and Lord Valentine's Castle. His ac... summary from source:
Critical Essay by John Clute
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[If] Gene Wolfe is to be taken seriously—and however thrilling or pleasing [The Book of the New Sun] may seem, there is simply no point at all in thinking of its author as a creator of mere speculative entertainment—then he must be taken as attempting something analogous to Dante's supreme effort [The Divine Comedy]. With great urgency, layer after layer, he has created a world radiant with meaning, a novel that makes sense in the end only if it is read as an attempt to represent the Wo... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Algis Budrys
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[You] will be missing a major—a seminal—event in the development of SF if you don't allow yourself the pleasure of reading [The Claw of the Conciliator] and its predecessor [Shadow of the Torturer],… as long as you do so in the privacy of your mind, the enjoyment will not count against you socially. As a piece of literature, this work is simply overwhelming. Severian is a character realized in a depth and to a breadth we have never seen in SF before; of all unlikely tin things, a...
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