The Book of the New Sun (omnibus editions) · #1

Shadow and Claw

Gene Wolfe

Fantasy Science Fiction Collection
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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.

Severian is a torturer, exiled from his guild after falling in love with one of his victims, and now journeying to the distant city of Thrax, armed with his ancient executioner's sword, Terminus Est.

This edition contains The Shadow of the Torturer and The Claw of the Conciliator, the first two volumes of this four volume novel.

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1994
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