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Gene Wolfe

Hardcover | Pages: 950 pages

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Original Title:	The Book of the New Sun
ISBN:	1568658079 (ISBN13: 9781568658070)
Edition Language:	English URL http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze2tmhh/wolfe.html
Series:	The Book of the New Sun #1-4, Solar Cycle #1-4 omnibus
Characters:	Severian

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Recently voted the greatest fantasy of all time, after The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun is an extraordinary epic, set a million years in the future, on an Earth transformed in mysterious and wondrous ways, in a time when our present culture is no longer even a memory. Severian, the central character, is a torturer, exiled from his guild after falling in love with one of his victims, and journeying to the distant city of Thrax, armed with his ancient executioner's sword, Terminus Est. This edition contains the first four volumes of the series.

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Title	:	The Book of the New Sun (The Book of the New Sun #1-4)
Author	:	Gene Wolfe
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	1st Science Fiction Book Club Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 950 pages
Published	:	June 1st 1998 by SFBC (first published 1983)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Science Fiction. Fiction

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Where do I start with this?This is probably the most intellectually stimulating work of fantasy (or science fantasy, whatever you call it) I've read. Wolfe doesn't pull his punches, he expects his readers to catch all the little hints and references he drops, and then he starts playing around with it to amuse both himself and the reader. This book has its (often humoristic) meta. It has intertextuality. It has an unreliable narrator, approaches science fiction under so many angles, and a puts up

I've read "The Book of the New Sun" cover-to-cover four times, and each time it becomes richer, deeper, and more enjoyable. Neil Gaiman wrote an entire article on why you should read Gene Wolfe, who the New York Times called "Science Fiction's Difficult Genius" and who Ursula K. LeGuin called "Our Melville." Wolfe is a writer's writer. His stories are shadowy, labyrinthine puzzles, impossible to fully grasp on the first read-through. Oh, you will think you know what's going on, and who's-who,

Like many readers, my second instinct after hearing about a seminal work of fiction is to get the gist of what it is (the first being to jot down its title/author). Just a smidgeon. A crumb of datum to warn me what I'm in for.The thing that surprised me about The Book of the New Sun is that it's impervious to this approach. From reviews I found hyperboles. Blurbs about its sci-fi and fantasy trappings, its layers, its unreliable narration, its imaginative scope and allusions to everything from

I just couldn't get through this book. I read 400 pages and just had enough. I know it is heralded as wonderful sciencfiction/fantasy and has won all kinds of awards, but for me it was just too rambling and difficult to follow in any enjoyable way.

I feel that "classic" works of any medium should be divided into 2 categories:1. Classics of the Art - works that appeal to people who participate in the craft. They push the boundaries of what the craft was originally thought to do.2. Classics of the Heart - works that have a timeless quality to them, that can be enjoyed apart from any historical context.So when I heard that "The Book of the New Sun" was a Sci-Fi/Fantasy (SFF) classic, like "The Lord of the Rings", I assumed that like LotR, it

I don't get it. It's sloppily constructed, intentionally vague, and peopled with ridiculous characters. There is distinction between wit and mere cleverness, and this one clearly belongs in the latter category. I'm not sure exactly what happens (and upon perusing the other reviews I find I am not alone in that), but I also don't care what happened. Getting through the fourth book was a laborious chore that I only embarked upon in the faint hope that it would make sense of the first three books

I read this tetralogy. re-read, re-read and re-reading again. never read anything like it and probably will never read again. like a drop of quicksilver in the folds of your brain. you know you read something important. you just don't know what.