The Urth of the New Sun: The sequel to 'The Book of the New Sun'
By Gene Wolfe
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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.
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Gene Wolfe
Gene Wolfe (1931-2019) was the Nebula Award-winning author of The Book of the New Sun tetralogy in the Solar Cycle, as well as the World Fantasy Award winners The Shadow of the Torturer and Soldier of Sidon. He was also a prolific writer of distinguished short fiction, which has been collected in such award-winning volumes as Storeys from the Old Hotel and The Best of Gene Wolfe. A recipient of the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, the Edward E. Smith Memorial Award, and six Locus Awards, among many other honors, Wolfe was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2007, and named Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2012.
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Reviews for The Urth of the New Sun
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Now I am going to have to start at the beginning of the series and see if I can make sense of it.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Severian, the narrator/protagonist of The Book of the New Sun, has been autarch for ten years. He is finally ready to make the trip for which his whole life has been preparing him, to plead as Urth's representative for the coming of the New Sun. He travels on an interstellar (and more) ship to the universe where he will be judged.Wolfe wraps up some loose ends from TBotNS, but does much more than that. His style, already remarkable in TBotNS, is more assured and platyul; we can almost imagine him laughing with joy as he writes. As always, he does not explain every detail, but invites the reader to participate in fleshing out the story. He gives us scenes from the New Testament, such as the storm on the river, reimagined to fit in with Severian's story and Wolfe's cosmology. Severian is not Christ, however, but a bad man striving to become good.Severian's voice becomes more and more lyrical as he progresses. He has always sought understanding of his world and its events, but now he seeks and achieves appreciation of the world and his place in it. I will confess to having my doubts about Wolfe revisiting Urth; this sequel has not only calmed my fears but delighted me with how Severian has grown and how Wolfe tells us his story.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This sequel to the already-hefty four-part Book of the New Sun integrates remarkably well with its predecessors. Wolfe takes us with Severian on a ship -- maybe The Ship -- that travels between stars and times. Does he manage to bring the New Sun to Urth? It's a hell of trip (and I mean that in every sense of the word you can imagine) finding out.One warning: don't even think about trying to read this without having finished the Book of the New Sun first. It'll be utterly incomprehensible.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5It seems like Wolfe felt the need to wrap up every possible loose end using the same small cast of characters, having them travel through time and space as necessary to do so, but his writing is so good and the character of Severian so real that when it came down to it I really didn't care, and loved reading it anyway.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This is sort of part of the series, and part not. I'm not quite sure. I understand why he wrote it, but it doesn't quite hit the spot for me.