Attachment to a bloodline or other sequence of succession. Now list the seven sorts.” “Attachment to the person of the monarch. I taught you that it precedes all governance. At last I began weakly, “Anarchy …” “That is not governance, but the lack of it. “A foreboding grew on me I sensed that if I did not reply, some tragedy would occur. We were one, naked and happy and clean, and we knew that she was no more and that I still lived, and we struggled against neither of those things, but with woven hair read from a single book and talked and sang of other matters.” I held her poor, cold hands in mine, and I no longer wore the rags of an apprentice, nor the fuligin of a journeyman. Not memories merely - memories I had possessed in plenty before. I learned that I had been more to her than I had ever guessed, and at last fell into a sleep in which my dreams were all of her. I learned what it was for one who had never seen a cell or felt a whip to be a prisoner of the torturers, what dying meant, and death.
I knew the life of the Autarch's court, where poison waited in a diamond cup. I knew the ancient villa moated by a dark lake, the view through the dusty windows of the belvedere, and the secret space in the odd angle between two rooms where we sat at noon to read by candlelight. I was with her, running beside the Acis when we were a child. once into it, there is no stopping.“Just when I despaired - she was there, filling me as a melody fills a cottage. Wolfe creates a truly alien social order that the reader comes to experience from within. The Book of the New Sun contains elements of Spenserian allegory, Swiftian satire, Dickensian social consciousness and Wagnerian mythology. "The Book of the New Sun establishes his preeminence, pure and simple. "Arguably the finest piece of literature American science fiction has yet produced the four-volume Book of the New Sun."- Chicago Sun-Times The Claw of the Conciliator continues the saga of Severian, banished from his home, as he undertakes a mythic quest to discover the awesome power of an ancient relic, and learn the truth about his hidden destiny. the best science fiction I've read in years!"
The Shadow of the Torturer is the tale of young Severian, an apprentice in the Guild of Torturers on the world called Urth, exiled for committing the ultimate sin of his profession - showing mercy toward his victim. Shadow & Claw brings together the first two books of the tetralogy in one volume: The Book of the New Sun is unanimously acclaimed as Gene Wolfe's most remarkable work, hailed as "a masterpiece of science fantasy comparable in importance to the major works of Tolkien and Lewis" by Publishers Weekly, and "one of the most ambitious works of speculative fiction in the twentieth century" by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.
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