Shadow and Claw (The Book of the New Sun, Volume 1)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780575116733 (0575116730)
Publish date: September 1st 2011
Publisher: Gollancz
Pages no: 603
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Classics,
Novels,
Science Fiction,
Epic Fantasy,
Epic,
Criticism,
Speculative Fiction,
Apocalyptic,
Post Apocalyptic
Series: The Book of the New Sun -2 (#1)
The classic story of a young man journey from the only home he’s known and finding himself interacting with the strange wider world. Shadow & Claw by Gene Wolfe is the omnibus collection of the first two volumes of The Book of the New Sun tetralogy, The Shadow of the Torturer and The Claw of the Co...
See my review of the individual books in this volume.
I've been reading bits and pieces of this book for month and it was only in the last couple of days that I gathered the energy to finish it all. Let me state the positives of this book succinctly: it starts off excellently, the language is just hard enough but not too hard and the worldbuilding is f...
It has been suggested that The Book Of The New Sun series is too complex a work to evaluate on one reading. First of all, I don't necessarily believe that and secondly, I have a two kids, a full-time job and a band, and I'm also not the quickest reader. As it seems that I'll probably never get to ...
“If we could have our way, no man would have to go roving or draw blood. But women did not make the world. All of you are torturers, one way or another.”This book could be the first successful fantasy scifi novel I have come across. The tale centers around a young journeyman torturer, Severian, who ...
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