The Urth of the New Sun: The Sequel to 'The Book of the New Sun'

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Macmillan, Nov 15, 1997 - Fiction - 384 pages

A Hugo and Nebula Award nominee, The Urth of the New Sun is the long awaited sequel to science fiction Grand Master 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 time and space to face his greatest test, to become the legendary New Sun or die.

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. 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.

 

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Contents

The Mainmast
1
The Fifth Sailor
9
The Cabin
16
The Citizens of the Sails
23
The Hero and the Hierodules
31
A Death and the Dark
38
A Death in the Light
46
The Empty Sleeve
55
The Village Beside the Stream
196
Among the Villagers
202
Ceryx
209
Zama
217
To the Alcyone
224
Aboard the Alcyone
231
Saltus Again
239
Nessus Again
246

The Empty Air
62
Interlude
70
Skirmish
78
The Semblance
84
The Battles
90
The End of the Universe
97
Yesod
105
The Epitome
111
The Isle
118
The Examination
125
Silence
132
The Coiled Room
140
Tzadkiel
150
Descent
157
The Ship
164
The Captain
170
Passion and the Passageway
177
Gunnie and Burgundofara
182
The Return to Urth
189
The Citadel Again
253
The Book of the New Sun
260
To the Tomb of the Monarch
267
The Claw of the Conciliator Again
274
The Brook Beyond Briah
282
Severian from His Cenotaph
289
Ding Dong Ding
295
The Evening Tide
302
The Morning Tide
309
The Boat
317
The Runaway
323
The Sunken City
330
Old Lands and New
336
ApuPunchau
343
Darkness in the House of Day
351
The Urth of the New Sun
363
The Miracle of ApuPunchau
371
Copyright

Other editions - View all

The Urth of the New Sun: The sequel to 'The Book of the New Sun'
Gene Wolfe
Limited preview - 1997
The Urth of the New Sun
Gene Wolfe
No preview available - 1987
The Urth of the New Sun
Gene Wolfe
No preview available - 1988

Common terms and phrases

Apheta Apu-Punchau asked Autarch Baldanders Barbatus beneath boat breath Briah Burgundofara cabin called captain Ceryx chiliarch Claw cloak corridor dark dead deck Declan destrier door eidolon eyes face Famulimus fear fell felt floor gangway gone Gunnie Gyoll Hadelin hand head hear heard held Herena hetman Hierodules Hierogrammates House Absolute Idas Increate jibers Juturna kill knew knife leaped legs light looked mast Matachin Nessus never night nodded Odilo once Orithyia Ossipago Pega perhaps pistol Purn recalled sailors sails seemed seen Severian ship shook Sidero sieur smiled smilodon someone soon speak spoke star stared stateroom stepped stone stone town stood strange suppose sure talk tell Thecla things thought told tried turned Typhon Tzadkiel Urth Urth's Valeria voice walked wall watched waves whispered wind woman wonder Yesod Ymar Zama

About the author (1997)

Gene Wolfe (1931-2019) was the Nebula Award-winning author of The Book of the New Sun tetralogy in the Solar Cycle, as well as the World Fantasy Award winners The Shadow of the Torturer and Soldier of Sidon. He was also a prolific writer of distinguished short fiction, which has been collected in such award-winning volumes as Storeys from the Old Hotel and The Best of Gene Wolfe. A recipient of the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, the Edward E. Smith Memorial Award, and six Locus Awards, among many other honors, Wolfe was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2007, and named Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2012.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Urth of the New Sun: The Sequel to 'The Book of the New Sun'
The Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe
Tom Doherty Associates book
AuthorGene Wolfe
Editionreprint, revised
PublisherMacmillan, 1997
ISBN0312863942, 9780312863944
Length384 pages
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