Present Out Of Books The Urth of the New Sun (The Book of the New Sun #5)
| Title | : | The Urth of the New Sun (The Book of the New Sun #5) |
| Author | : | Gene Wolfe |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 372 pages |
| Published | : | November 15th 1997 by Orb Books (first published 1987) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Science Fiction. Fiction |
Gene Wolfe
Paperback | Pages: 372 pages Rating: 4 | 5408 Users | 277 Reviews
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The long awaited sequel to Gene Wolfe’s four-volume classic, The Book of the New Sun. We return to the world of Severian, now the Autarch of Urth, as he leaves the planet on one of the huge spaceships of the alien Hierodules to travel across time and space to face his greatest test, to become the legendary New Sun or die. The strange, rich, original spaceship scenes give way to travels in time, wherein Severian revisits times and places which fill in parts of the background of the four-volume work, that will thrill and intrigue particularly all readers of the earlier books. But The Urth of the New Sun is an independent structure all of a piece, an integral masterpiece to shelve beside the classics, one itself.Point Books To The Urth of the New Sun (The Book of the New Sun #5)
| Original Title: | The Urth of the New Sun |
| ISBN: | 0312863942 (ISBN13: 9780312863944) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Book of the New Sun #5, Solar Cycle #5 |
| Literary Awards: | Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel (1988), Nebula Award Nominee for Best Novel (1988), Seiun Award 星雲賞 Nominee for Best Translated Long Form (2009) |
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Ratings: 4 From 5408 Users | 277 ReviewsNotice Out Of Books The Urth of the New Sun (The Book of the New Sun #5)
whutThis is a fine ending to this most wonderful series, but it does lack some of the gritty polish and bemusing weirdness of its four predecessors. Perhaps it is just familiarity with the world of Severian the Torturer that makes this one a little less insane, and a good portion of the book is taken up by crazy battles on a time-bending spaceship, a literal galleon with a thousand sails whisking our "hero" to the universe Yesod to find the New Sun. None of that will mean anything to you if you
"Declan wished to know how Urth would fare when the New Sun came; and I, understanding little more than he did himself, drew upon Dr. Talos's play, never thinking that in a time yet to come Dr. Talos's play would be drawn from my words."A hall of mirrors, a recognition over immense gulfs of time and space, a hero's journey that's perpetually refreshes and corrects itself and encounters its own traces. "I am not the first Severian," our hero said in The Citadel of the Autarch; it takes Wolfe
4 4.5 starsThe final segment of the New Sun series, whether you consider it a somewhat separate coda to the main four books or simply volume five of Severians story, is a satisfying conclusion to all that has led up to it and trust me when I say that for Wolfe that is a surprising turn of events. Dont get me wrong, plenty of mysteries and unanswered questions remain, but there is a sense of completion and clarity that is often not apparent in Wolfes work. I actually found, on this re-read at
This review is for all five books in the New Sun tetralogy.What a peculiar series. Bizarre and compelling yet also distant and alien. The language is poetic while the tone tends toward melancholy. As if, perhaps, Edgar Allen Poe had written long-form science fiction novels.The New Sun series, is not for those who demand their fantasy or science fiction served on a platter, spoon fed. Wolfe has written a story that is ambiguous, mysterious and falls in an undefinable land between myth, fantasy
This is my second read of this, often referred to as a coda to Wolfe's Book of the New Sun rather than a true fifth volume, and I enjoyed it far more this time. I still think that it isn't quite up to the same level of magnificence as those books, but it is a different creature and great in its own right.This tale follows Severian - again through his own journals - after he has become the Autarch, the ruler of the empire and (possibly) the rightful although not actual ruler of a fractured planet
This was the last book in the series The Book of the New Sun. For the most part, I really liked it, and I might even have rated it higher than the four stars Ive consistently given the other books in this series. However, I thought it went off the rails a bit toward the end.It gave me the answers I was looking for in terms of what happened after the end of the fourth book, and I enjoyed the story it told. Then, without giving anything away, it shed new light on many of the events from those
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