# Shadow & Claw: The First Half of the Book of the New Sun - Hardcover

by **Gene Wolfe** (Author)

**"A major work of twentieth-century American literature...Wolfe creates a truly alien social order that the reader comes to experience from within...once into it, there is no stopping." ---_The New York Times_ on _The Book of the New Sun_**

**This new Tor Essentials edition of _Sword & Citade_l contains a new introduction by historian and novelist Ada Palmer, author of the award-winning _Too Like the Lightning_.**

Gene Wolfe has been called "the finest writer the science fiction world has yet produced" by the Washington Post.

THE BOOK OF THE NEW SUN is unanimously acclaimed as 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 & Science Fiction_.

_The Sword of the Lictor_ is the third volume in Wolfe's remarkable epic, chronicling the odyssey of the wandering pilgrim called Severian, driven by a powerful and unfathomable destiny, as he carries out a dark mission far from his home.

_The Citadel of the Autarch_ brings The Book of the New Sun to its harrowing conclusion, as Severian clashes in a final reckoning with the dread Autarch, fulfilling an ancient prophecy that will alter forever the realm known as Urth.

"Wonderfully vivid and inventive... the most extraordinary hero in the history of the heroic epic." --_The Washington Post_

### Author Biography

**Gene Wolfe** (1931-2019) was the Nebula Award-winning author of The Book of the New Sun tetralogy in the Solar Cycle, as well as the World Fantasy Award winners _The Shadow of the Torturer_ and _Soldier of Sidon_. He was also a prolific writer of distinguished short fiction, which has been collected in such award-winning volumes as _Storeys from the Old Hotel_ and _The Best of Gene Wolfe_.

A recipient of the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, the Edward E. Smith Memorial Award, and six Locus Awards, among many other honors, Wolfe was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2007, and named Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2012.

**Number of Pages:** 528

**Dimensions:** 1.7 x 8.3 x 5.4 IN

**Publication Date:** June 08, 2021

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