Russell's ebook Library

1 - The Shadow of Torturer
Gene Wolfe
Urth: Book of the New Sun [1]: 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 my...

2 - The Claw of the Conciliator
Gene Wolfe
Urth: Book of the New Sun [2]: 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 my...

3 - The Sword of the Lictor
Gene Wolfe
Urth: Book of the New Sun [3]: Banished for the sin of mercy, Severian, one of the ancient guild of Torturers, flees from exile. In a mountain wilderness he meets the Alzabo, in whom those eaten seem to live on, adopts as son only to lose him in batt...

4 - The Citadel of the Autarch
Gene Wolfe
Urth: Book of the New Sun [4]: Severian the Torturer continues his epic journey across the lands of Urth, carrying with him the Claw of the Conciliator and the great sword, Terminus Est. All his travels are leading towards a destiny that he dare not ...

5 - The Urth of the New Sun
Gene Wolfe
Urth: Book of the New Sun [5]: Gene Wolfe's four-volume magnum opus, "The Book of the New Sun" is one of the modern masterpieces of imaginative literature - an evocation of a world so far in the future that magic and technology, poetry and science, a...