Sci-FiLiterary Fiction

The Book of the New Sun

Gene Wolfe

4 books

An unreliable torturer narrates his journey across a dying far-future Earth in this densely literary masterwork that reads like fantasy but reveals itself as science fiction.

Reading Order

  1. 1.

    The Shadow of the Torturer

    The most literary SF ever written — Severian is one of fiction's great unreliable narrators.

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  2. 2.

    The Claw of the Conciliator

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  3. 3.

    The Sword of the Lictor

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  4. 4.

    The Citadel of the Autarch

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