![]() ![]() The third volume, The Sword of the Lictor, continues the self-told tale of Severian, the torturer, and leads us both farther afield from the beginning and closer to the solution of the many mysteries posed in the opening volumes. ![]() What at first seems like magic turns out to be the remains of forgotten colossal technologies our own civilization is so distant as to be no longer even a memory. The Book of the New Sun is set a million years in the future of our Earth, on a planet transformed in ways inconceivable to our primitive technologies. ![]() The Claw of the Conciliator has been received with matching acclaim and the excitement mounts as more and more people are captured by the magic of a writer working at the peak of his form and creating something "totally original, new, incomparable." Le Guin called The Shadow of the Torturer "the first volume of a masterpiece." It has been nominated for all the major fantasy and science fiction awards and has gathered praise far and wide as probably the most important work to appear in the field in the last ten years. ![]()
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