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    <![CDATA[This edition contains in a volume the entirety of <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=The Book of the New Sun" title="The Book of the New Sun">The Book of the New Sun</a> including:<br/><br/>Book 1 <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=Shadow of the Torturer" title="Shadow of the Torturer">Shadow of the Torturer</a><br/>Book 2 <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=Claw of the Conciliator" title="Claw of the Conciliator">Claw of the Conciliator</a><br/>Book 3 <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=Sword of the Lictor" title="Sword of the Lictor">Sword of the Lictor</a><br/>Book 4 <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=Citadel of the Autarch" title="Citadel of the Autarch">Citadel of the Autarch</a><br/><br/>Lately, books 1 and 2 are usually bound and sold together as <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=Shadow &amp; Claw" title="Shadow & Claw">Shadow &amp; Claw</a> and likewise 2 and 3 as <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=Sword &amp; Citadel" title="Sword & Citadel">Sword &amp; Citadel</a>.<br/><br/>Although this omnibus is available from only the UK, US copies are to be found <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://cgi.ebay.com/Severian-Of-The-Guild-Omnibus-by-Gene-Wolfe-new-UK-PB_W0QQitemZ120200101563QQcmdZViewItem">on eBay</a>. In addition, the hardcover Book of the New Sun also containing all four books is available <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.alibris.com/booksearch.detail?invid=9291324052&isbn=9781568658070&qsort=p&page=1">in the US</a>.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this at the recommendation of a friend, otherwise I probably would not have finished it. <br/><br/>It's a very odd book. The premise is interesting enough, and the writing is actually pretty good as well, if from a bit of an odd perspective. <br/><br/>However, somewhere between those two ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77649512">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Picaresque pseudo-allegorical post-apocalyptic Bildungsroman and a few other things besides. Vance if he took himself seriously; some of the markers of the SF of its time, but owes much (thankfully) to the &quot;humanist fantasy&quot; (the best of Leiber and Saberhagen) of decades earlier.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Just great. One of the true classics of any genre. This book still haunts me more than 10 years after I finished it.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Recently voted the greatest fantasy of all time, after The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun is an extraordinary epic, set a million years in the future, on an Earth transformed in mysterious and wondrous ways, in a time when our present culture is no longer even a memory.  Severian, the central character, is a torturer, exiled from his guild after falling in love with one of his victims, and journeying to the distant city of Thrax, armed with his ancient executioner's sword, Terminus Est.  This edition contains all four volumes...The Shadow of the Torturer, The Claw of the Conciliator, The Sword of the Lictor, and The Citadel of the Autarch.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my top books in my 20s, mainly for the fantastic world-building. Must re-read this one too!]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[This edition contains in a volume the entirety of <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=The Book of the New Sun" title="The Book of the New Sun">The Book of the New Sun</a> including:<br/><br/>Book 1 <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=Shadow of the Torturer" title="Shadow of the Torturer">Shadow of the Torturer</a><br/>Book 2 <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=Claw of the Conciliator" title="Claw of the Conciliator">Claw of the Conciliator</a><br/>Book 3 <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=Sword of the Lictor" title="Sword of the Lictor">Sword of the Lictor</a><br/>Book 4 <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=Citadel of the Autarch" title="Citadel of the Autarch">Citadel of the Autarch</a><br/><br/>Lately, books 1 and 2 are usually bound and sold together as <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=Shadow &amp; Claw" title="Shadow & Claw">Shadow &amp; Claw</a> and likewise 2 and 3 as <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=Sword &amp; Citadel" title="Sword & Citadel">Sword &amp; Citadel</a>.<br/><br/>Although this omnibus is available from only the UK, US copies are to be found <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://cgi.ebay.com/Severian-Of-The-Guild-Omnibus-by-Gene-Wolfe-new-UK-PB_W0QQitemZ120200101563QQcmdZViewItem">on eBay</a>. In addition, the hardcover Book of the New Sun also containing all four books is available <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.alibris.com/booksearch.detail?invid=9291324052&isbn=9781568658070&qsort=p&page=1">in the US</a>.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Although the subject matter is grim, and there is not a single really likeable character in the series - I love these novels because they are SO well written and SO totally different.  I am rereading them again - with an on-line unabridged dictionary.  The edition I own has the first two titles toge...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70959207">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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