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	The Book of the New Sun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The New Sun series belongs to the Dying Earth subgenre (a title inspired by Jack Vance's popular Dying Earth series), a kind of science fiction/fantasy set in a distant future when the Sun is dying, set against a background of mysterious and obscure powers and events.
		Wolfe's earlier book, The Fifth Head of Cerberus is in fact set in the same universe, and is a prequel to the Book of the New Sun, the Book of the Long Sun, and the successor Short Sun books.
		The Book of the New Sun purports to be a translation from the self-inscribed memoirs of an unreliable, and possibly insane, ruler; this is almost certainly a deliberate echo of Robert Graves's Claudius novels.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Book_of_the_New_Sun (618 words)

	Inchoatus Review The Book of the New Sun - The Shadow of the Torturer - The Claw of the Coniliator - The Sword of the ...
		New Sun will require people to re-read it over and over again and each time will be like reading a new book.
		New Sun is a challenging work of genius and fully understanding that genius will be the effort of a lifetime.
		Yet, the book opens with Severian as a youth of small distinction in an ancient and poorly regarded academy of torturers: a government supported profession that metes out punishment as directed by the judges who preside and sentence over criminals.
	www.inchoatus.com /Reviews/BookoftheNewSun,GeneWolfe.htm (1456 words)

	The Book of the New Sun
		The book has a strange and somewhat dark timbre, and the author doesn't shy away from disturbing and sometimes heartbreaking material, which is wonderfully unusual.
		The book is not perfect, but the quality of the material is so fantastic, so in its own world of greatness, that its flaws just aren't as much of a problem for me. Simply put, reading this book was one of the best reading experiences of my life, so my ranking reflects that.
		This book is rich with wonderful writing, and I could literally quote almost any random sentence from any paragraph on any page of the book.
	facstaff.uww.edu /herriotj/books/botns.html (853 words)

	Lupine Nuncio - Gene Wolfe News and Rumors
		French web site about New Sun Has pictures of the French edition covers (with really weird artwork) and other art (the duel with the averns is pretty neat).
		The books chronicle his beginning life as part of his guild, through his exile and wanderings and meetings with the strange cultures and inhabitants of the Earth of the very distant future.
		The Book of the Long Sun chronicles the life of Patera Silk, a priest of the gods of Mainframe (programs that appear in the computer terminal Windows of the vessel) who is contacted by a forgotten god, the Outsider, who gives him a mission.
	mysite.verizon.net /~vze2tmhh/wolfe.html (1570 words)

	Amazon.com: The Urth of the New Sun: The sequel to 'The Book of the New Sun' (New Sun): Books: Gene Wolfe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Amazon.com: The Urth of the New Sun: The sequel to 'The Book of the New Sun' (New Sun): Books: Gene Wolfe
		The Urth of the New Sun: The sequel to 'The Book of the New Sun' (New Sun) by Gene Wolfe
		The underlying allegory in the Book of the New Sun is the story of the redemption of one man- Severian- and all men and women on Urth, as represented by him.
	www.amazon.com /Urth-New-Sun-sequel-Book/dp/0312863942 (2501 words)

	The Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolf on the end of time. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Most importantly, these books are set in the Winter of Urth, when the Sun has grown cold and dark, and nearly savage inhabitants tread the ruins of a measureless past.
		The end of time itself is seen as the end of the year, a recasting of the drama of the Sun fading in winter and being reborn in spring.
		Suns are born and Suns die, and, sometimes, Suns are reborn.
	www.strangewords.com /archive/newsun2.html (496 words)

	AML-List Review: Shadow & Claw: The First Half of the Book of the New Sun: The Shadow of the Torturer and The Claw of ...
		As I said before, there are four books in the original Book of the New Sun series: The Shadow of the Torturer, The Claw of the Conciliator, The Sword of the Lictor, and The Citadel of the Autarch.
		Early in the first book, he falls in love with Thecla, one of the "clients" of the guild; when it comes time for her to be tortured, he smuggles her a knife with which she kills herself.
		The books sparkle with vivid images, which both enliven the prose and reinforce the underlying thematic structure of the books.
	www.aml-online.org /reviews/b/B20032B.html (2378 words)

	Amazon.ca: In Green's Jungles : The Second Volume of the Book of the Short Sun: Books: Gene Wolfe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		The Book of the Long Sun is a tour-de-force, a truly great extended novel of eerie beauty and wonder, and while totally different in narrative style (first person vs. third) the Homeric Book of the Short Sun is an admirable extension of it.
		Wolfe is even able to tie everything back to giant red sun of the dying Urth in The Book of the New Sun, because the ancient metropolis of Nessus is shown to be the origin of the Whorl.
		This series of books also resurrects from "The Book of the Long Sun" one of the most entertaining supporting characters I've ever encountered, Oreb, the semi-intelligent, wise, and highly vocal bird who was the constant companion of Patera Silk and is now the companion of Horn, the new central character.
	www.amazon.ca /Greens-Jungles-Second-Book-Short/dp/0312873638 (2747 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Book of the New Sun: Shadow and Claw Vol 1 (Fantasy Masterworks): Books: Gene Wolfe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		To me all the books in Gene Wolfe's Solar Cycle (The book of the New Sun, Long Sun, and Short Sun) are in similar vein to The Lord of the Rings, Gormenghast, The Chronicles of Amber; Massively ambitious fantasy books that when given the proper attention, fully reach their own potential.
		Now that I've read "The Book of the New Sun", which actually precedes "The Book of the Long Sun" as far as the story-line history goes, I know that Gene Wolfe is one of our greatest writers of fantasy, science fiction, or speculative fiction.
		The third book is better still, or perhaps it would be better to say that as you go further on, you get more and more interested as the story develops (oh so slowly) and you get more insight into Severian's character and the world he lives in.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Book-New-Sun-Fantasy-Masterworks/dp/1857989775 (2455 words)

	The Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolf on the end of time, part 2
		The Shadow of the Torturer, The Claw of the Conciliator, The Sword of the Lictor, and The Citadel of the Autarch
		Gene Wolfe's magnum opus of Earth at the end of time, the four volumes comprising The Book of the New Sun, is a vast epic set many millennia in the future.
		The Sun is fading towards darkness, and the debris of countless civilizations crunches under the feet of the wandering Torturer Severian.
	www.strangewords.com /archive/newsun.html (650 words)

	Pyramid: GURPS Book of the New Sun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Set perhaps a million years in the future, the scenario, in a nutshell, is this: the sun is dying of unnatural causes, a fl hole that eats away at it.
		If Autarch Severian the Great is successful, the New Sun will arrive and sweep his enemies away, rejuvenating the sun and ushering in a new world; if the Other Lords are successful in blocking the Autarch, the old sun and Urth along with it will finally die.
		If the New Sun is successful in bringing the White Fountain to the Old Sun, the tired Urth will be reborn as the vibrant Ushas, a truly Golden Age for humanity.
	www.sjgames.com /pyramid/sample.html?id=469 (6131 words)

	Peter Wright reconsiders the Book of the New Sun
		The Book of the New Sun was applauded in a variety of periodicals ranging from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction to Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine to The Library Journal and The New York Times.
		Hence, The Book of the New Sun does not invite the reader to marvel at how clever Wolfe can be, but to marvel at his or her own intelligence in perceiving one facet of the elaborate textual game the author plays.
		Thus, The Book of the New Sun may appeal to a post-structuralist reading as it marks a shift from meaning to staging, from the signified to the signifier.
	artsweb.bham.ac.uk /jlaidlow/ultan/botns.htm (3119 words)

	New Sun by Gene Wolfe Book Reviews
		The Book of the New Sun is a failed masterpiece.
		This book is not cohesive and relies on many coincidences to advance the plot line ("Oh, it's you again!").
		Book one starts off very well and then looses it; books two and three are excellent throughout; book four totally drops the ball.
	www.sffworld.com /brev/si348p0.html (892 words)

	Sun has binary partner, may affect the Earth
		The ground-breaking and richly illustrated new book, Lost Star of Myth and Time, marries modern astronomical theory with ancient star lore to make a compelling case for the profound influence on our planet of a companion star to the sun.
		Author and theorist, Walter Cruttenden, presents the evidence that this binary orbit relationship may be the cause of a vast cycle causing the Dark and Golden Ages common in the lore of ancient cultures.
		This movement of the solar system occurs because the Sun has a companion star; both stars orbit a common center of gravity, as is typical of most double star systems.
	www.physorg.com /news6428.html (1177 words)

	Review of Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun
		The second volume of The Book of the New Sun ends with a bizarre encounter in a deserted house in the middle of a desolate area.
		The Urth of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe, Tor, 1988, 372 pp.
		If you've read The Book of the New Sun, you already have a guess as to what this book will be about: at the end of the earlier series, the main character, Severian, prepares to go on a fantastical journey that will renew the powers of the sun in his solar system.
	www.challengingdestiny.com /reviews/newsun.htm (4148 words)

	Amazon.de: Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun': The First Half of the Book of the New Sun: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Urth of the New Sun von Gene Wolfe
		Even the sun is senile and dying, and so Urth needs a new sun.
		Tatally original, new, incomparable; the beginning of something great." "Recently voted the greatest fantasy of all time after the Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit..." blah, blah, blah - these are some of the high praises for this book.
	www.amazon.de /Shadow-Claw-First-Half-Book/dp/0312890176 (2058 words)

	Review: The Urth of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
		This is a wrap-up of the Book of the New Sun, written some time after the last book of the original four-book series.
		I was hoping this book would open up the cover a little and explain some of the details that had been going on under the main plot, not just continue it.
		It neither took a different look at the New Sun series to shed some light on what had been happening or kept the formula and feel of the original series intact.
	www.eyrie.org /~eagle/reviews/books/0-812-55817-0.html (560 words)

	Five Steps Towards Briah: Gene Wolfe's The Book of the Long Sun, by Nick Gevers
		And just as Severian, the narrator of the first Book, is the New Son of God, a man becoming Christlike if not Christ himself returned, so Patera Silk, Wolfe's new protagonist, is the Long Son, the product of a virgin birth, long (tall) in physical and moral stature.
		But it is a mark of Wolfe's achievement that, while the biography or Book of Silk (as the narrator thought of terming it) consistently echoes Severian's autobiography, the differences between the two texts are as striking as the similarities, so that they are always in complex, probing dialogue.
		As in The Book of the New Sun, Wolfe acts as a literary torturer, compelling his characters and his narrative form to confess their inadequacies of perception and representation.
	home.austin.rr.com /lperson/briah.html (4406 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Shadow and Claw: The First Half of the Book of the New Sun: Books: Gene Wolfe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		The Book of the New Sun: Shadow and Claw Vol 1 (Fantasy Masterworks) by Gene Wolfe
		One of the best written books I have ever read a joy from start to finish the writing style is odd but incredibly effective and is totally absorbing a must buy for all SF and fantasy fans.
		The Book of the New Sun and The Urth of the New Sun are two of the most beautiful, unremitting, and absolutely marvelous works of the twentieth century and that I have ever read.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Shadow-Claw-First-Half-Book/dp/0312890176 (1496 words)

	The Book of the New Sun at Polytropos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		So far, in fact, that the sun is old and dying and the civilization that currently exists on top of the ruins of the dozens before it is rather medieval in technology and sophistication, though those in power (the Autarch and his court) have access to the high-tech goodies of the past.
		The Book of the New Sun is Severian’s first-person narration of his ascent to the throne, told at some later date.
		Actually, that’s not true—as the notes at the end of each book indicate, it purports to be Wolfe’s translation of Severian’s as-yet-unwritten autobiography, a “study of the post-historic world.” Severian possesses an eidetic memory, a fact he is constantly reminding the reader of in his narration.
	www.polytropos.org /?p=307 (1163 words)

	A Programmer's Guide to Java Certification
		The book is primarily intended for professionals who want to prepare for the Sun Certified Java Programmer Exam (Sun CJPE), but it is readily accessible to any programmer who wants to master the language.
		Sun Microsystems has defined the Sun CJPE which professionals can take to validate their skills.
		This book is not a complete reference for the Java programming language as it does not attempt to list every member of every class from the Java Development Kit (JDK) API documentation.
	www.ii.uib.no /~khalid/pgjc/jcbook (768 words)

	Amazon.com: Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun' (New Sun): Books: Gene Wolfe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		In The Book* of the New Sun*, the most powerful item is the Claw of the Conciliator - the most valuable relic in existence, a gem that performs miraculous cures...
		To the point that the majority of the first book is spent reciting the events of just a single day he spent in the capital city.
		As an example of the former is the end of the first book, in which Severian is violently separated from his (latest) lover and other cohorts he had met on the previous day.
	www.amazon.com /Shadow-Claw-First-Half-Book/dp/0312890176 (3676 words)

	The Urth of the New Sun (John's Book Pages) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		The Urth of the New Sun, the final installment of The Book of the New Sun, was written sometime after the previous four books; some people don't like it on the grounds that everything important in it was implied by its predecessors.
		I would say that since an awful lot was implied by The Book, there are still plenty of reasons to read this one.
		Urth has two parts: in the first Severian travels to another universe, Yesod, to be tested to determine if he -- and by extension, humanity -- deserves a new sun, a second chance at life.
	books.regehr.org /reviews/urthofthenewsun.html (150 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: The Book of the New Sun Volume I: Shadow and Claw
		He is known for strikingly audacious novels such as The Fifth Head of Cerberus, but most readers will probably have learned to appreciate his writing in The Book of the New Sun series, and the associated Long Sun series.
		This volume consists of the first two books in the 4-book The Book of the New Sun series, The Shadow of the Torturer and The Claw of the Conciliator.
		The Book of the New Sun is not exactly a light read, but in the hands of Gene Wolfe the material is masterfully presented and, dare I say it, haunting.
	www.sfsite.com /01b/ns96.htm (733 words)

	Thoughts on The Book of the New Sun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		If science fiction will ever gain any sort of critical respect from the literary canon, this is the type of book that would do it.
		This book could be read for countless lifetimes without exhausting its wealth.
		On the surface its another stable boy becomes emporer sort of story (although a neat twist is that the "stable boy" is actually--by profession--a torturer), but wow...if any story can validate an entire genre, here it is. The imagery is also decidedly beautiful.
	www.jvoegele.com /literarysf/tbotns.html (237 words)

	The Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe
		The Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe
		Because the brilliance in these books is based more on startling situations and personalities than plot, reading them out of order makes less difference.
		You wouldn't have to start with the first book to understand and enjoy the second; but since, after reading the second, most would feel inspired to go back and read the first book anyway you might as well start at the beginning.
	www.thesustainablevillage.com /awrbooks/html/BooksinHTML/newSun.html (464 words)

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