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The Urth of the New Sun (The Book of the New Sun #5)

Gene Wolfe

Paperback | Pages: 372 pages

Rating: 4 | 5408 Users | 277 Reviews

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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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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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Title	:	The Urth of the New Sun (The Book of the New Sun #5)
Author	:	Gene Wolfe
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 372 pages
Published	:	November 15th 1997 by Orb Books (first published 1987)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Science Fiction. Fiction

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This might have gotten 5 stars had I read it right after the other four volumes of the series - this book frequently hearkens back to events in earlier books, and I didn't always remember them. This is partly because the books are JAM PACKED with events and characters, and partly because of Wolfe's writing style. About that style: some authors telegraph "watch carefully! important stuff coming up!" and their work is pretty easy to skim as a result. Wolfe does the exact opposite, deliberately

Reading this without having read The Book of the New Sun is likely to result in confusion. Reading this without having read The Book of the New Sun very recently ain't much better. Urth is tightly tied to characters and events of the previous four volumes and provides no handholding for those who haven't read them. (For me, it has been a decade.) This is not an "obvious" coda: according to this discussion Urth exists mainly to keep a Polyanna epilogue out of Book of the New Sun. So it would be

If you felt that many things were left unexplained in the previous 4 books "Urth Of The New Sun" will definitely explain them all but on the other hand it will introduce many more puzzles. Anyway if you reached this far by reading and loving the first four books perhaps you already knew it as a possibility. Here, Gene Wolfe tells the tale of now autarch Severian who takes the travel to undergo his ultimate test on Yesod, and while it is a not fictional mythology book as is Tolkien's "The

In this follow-up to the Book of the New Sun, Severian, the Autarch of the Commonwealth of Urth, journeys deep into space. His goal is to acquire the New Sun, a star/energy source/person (or perhaps all of these), which is capable of replacing his planet's dying sun. While his success will ensure the survival of his planet, it carries with it a terrible price.Much like the preceding four volumes that comprise The Book of the New Sun, I enjoyed this book but I do not feel like I entirely

This has to be one of the most original and complex stories Ive ever heard (read). I have no clue how anyone could walk away reading just the first four books. Urth of the New Sun did shine light on many, many questions that remained after the fourth book though I still had to read the synopsis and look up a few things in the Lexicon Urthus when I was done with Urth of the New Sun to truly get closure. The inspiration from Wolfes faith goes all out in this book compared to the first four, but I

Nutshell: liar writes shruggable intergalactic/transtemporal there-and-back-again.Beyond proficient at the sentence level, with many slick turns of phrase and cool observations. At the level of discourse, though, it's kinda hard to see the point. Might benefit from a reading of The Book of the New Sun immediately prior, though.Love how Severian at one point addresses the reader: "I will leave it to you to explain these things" (167). Okay then!Seems that this new sun business destroyed the

I feel inclined to give this book a lower rating because I found it to be so much weaker than the rest of the New Sun series (and however much people describe it as a 'coda' or 'not really a sequel,' it really is a direct sequel), but I don't really think that would be fairit's still much better than a lot of the science fiction out there. That's the thing, though: where the other books in the New Sun cycle weren't so heavy on the S part of SF, this book is more heavily sciencey science fiction.