The Sword of the Lictor
Severian, the disgraced apprentice torturer, has reached his place of exile - Thrax, the city of Windowless Rooms, where he must take up his post as Lictor, executioner and torturer. However, he flees the city and heads into the mountains, to meet the mysterious Dr Talos.
Severian, the disgraced apprentice torturer, has reached his place of exile - Thrax, the city of Windowless Rooms, where he must take up his post as Lictor, executioner and torturer. However, he flees the city and heads into the mountains, to meet the mysterious Dr Talos.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780671499457 (0671499459)
ASIN: 0671499459
Publish date: 1983-09-03
Publisher: Pocket Books
Pages no: 257
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Classics,
Science Fiction,
High Fantasy,
Speculative Fiction,
Apocalyptic,
Post Apocalyptic,
Dark Fantasy,
Dying Earth,
Fiction
This is the third book in the series The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe. I don’t have too much to say about it, but I enjoyed it at the same level as the previous two. The previous book had a couple things that drove me nuts, and this book did not. Even Severian’s constant harping about his ...
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