Shadow & Claw: The First Half of ‘The E book of the New Solar’
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The E book of the New Solar is unanimously acclaimed as Gene Wolfe’s most outstanding work, hailed as “a masterpiece of science fantasy comparable in significance to the key works of Tolkien and Lewis” by Publishers Weekly.
Shadow & Claw brings collectively the primary two books of the tetralogy in a single quantity:
The Shadow of the Torturer is the story of younger Severian, an apprentice within the Guild of Torturers on the world referred to as Urth, exiled for committing the last word sin of his career — displaying mercy towards his sufferer.
Ursula Ok. Le Guin mentioned, “Magic stuff . . . a masterpiece . . . one of the best science fiction I’ve learn in years!”
The Claw of the Conciliator continues the saga of Severian, banished from his residence, as he undertakes a mythic quest to find the superior energy of an historic relic, and study the reality about his hidden future.
“One of the crucial formidable works of speculative fiction within the twentieth century.” — The Journal of Fantasy and Science Fiction
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