The Urth of the New Sun

The Urth of the New Sun (The Book of the New Sun 5) The long awaited sequel to Gene Wolfe’s four-volume classic, The Book of the New Sun 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 tiendary New Sun or die The strange, rich, original spaceship scenes give way to travels in time, wherein Severian revisits tiround of the four-voluue particularly all readers of the earlier books 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