An extraordinary epic, set a million years in the future, in the time of a dying sun, when our present culture is no longer even a memory. Severian, a torturer'

Gene Wolfe's BOOK OF THE NEW SUN has been hailed by both critics and readers as quite possibly the best science fiction novel ever written. And yet at the same

A Major work of twentieth-century American Literature.

Science fiction-roman.

Shadow of the torturer.; Claw of the conciliator.; Sword of the lictor.; Citadel of the autarch.