- Science fiction, American Science fiction, Fiction, general, Fantasy
Sequel to: The book of the new sun. Severian, the Autarch of Urth, leaves the planet on one of the huge spaceships of the alien Hierodules to travel across time and space to face his greatest test, to become the legendary New Sun or die.
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- Author
- Gene Wolfe
- First published
- 1987
- Pages
- 372
- Publisher
- Gollancz, Europa-América, Minotauro
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- English, Spanish, French
- ISBN
- 9780312863944
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“HAVING CAST ONE MANUSCRIPT INTO THE SEAS OF TIME, I now begin again.”
Gene Wolfe was born in Texas. After dropping out from Texas A&M University, he served in the Korean War, and later graduated from the University of Houston. He worked first as an engineer, notably designing part of the machine that produces Pringles potatoe chips, and later as the editor of a professional engineering magazine, *Plant Engineering*. Wolfe was a prolific writer, publishing over 30 novels and hundreds of short stories in his life. He was known for the complexity of his narratives and the depth of his characters, frequently using unreliable or fallible narrators to enhance his thematic focus on memory. His work explores topics of morality, often through the lens of his Catholic f
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