But The Urth of the New Sun is an independent structure all of a piece, an integral masterpiece to shelve beside the classics, one itself. In fact, the books are best described as science-fiction novels whose narrator & characters have only fantasy-novel vocabulary at their disposal to describe. The strange, rich, original spaceship scenes give way to travels in time, wherein Severian revisits times and places which fill in parts of the background of the four-volume work, that will thrill and intrigue particularly all readers of the earlier books. The story opens on a spaceship of proportions nearly impossible to visualize. We return to the world of Severian, now the Autarch of Urth, as he 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. Hinted at, but left to the reader’s imagination at the conclusion of THE BOOK OF THE NEW SUN, The Urth of the New Sun is the story of Severian’s final judgment to determine whether he, and subsequently Urth, are commendable enough to have their dying sun revitalized.
The long awaited sequel to Gene Wolfe’s four-volume classic, The Book of the New Sun.
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