Shadow & Claw
The First Half of The Book of the New Sun
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ISBN10: 0312890176
ISBN13: 9780312890179
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416 Pages
$19.99
CA$25.99
The Book of the New Sun, a series of four novels, is unanimously acclaimed as Wolfe's most memorable work, hailed by Publishers Weekly as a "masterpiece of science fantasy comparable in importance to the major works of Tolkien and Lewis"—and by The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction as "one of the most ambitious works of speculative fiction in the twentieth century".
Shadow & Claw collects the first two novels in this Nebula and World Fantasy Award-winning tetralogy: The Shadow of the Torturer and The Claw of the Conciliator.
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"The Book of the New Sun establishes [Wolfe's] pre-eminence, pure and simple . . . The Book of the New Sun contains elements of Spenserian allegory, Swiftian satire, Dickensian social consciousness, and Wagnerian mythology. Wolfe creates a truly alien social order that the reader comes to experience from within . . . Once into it, there is no stopping."—The New York Times Book Review
"Arguably the best piece of literature American science fiction has yet produced."—Chicago Sun-Times
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the shadow of the torturer
A thousand ages in thy sight
Are like an evening gone;
Short as the watch that ends the night
Before the rising sun.
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resurrection and death
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About the author
Gene Wolfe
