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

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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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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.

just finished the fifth book and i'm fascinating. i can hardly wait to reread this series. oh my God or should i say oh my Severian. gonna miss you in my wonderworld...untill

I've been a sci-fi reader since the late fifties(Jr. H.S.) and while I wouldn't exactly call myself an aficionado, I have read a lot of sci-fi. But ... I don't recall ever reading any of Gene Wolfe's books. Perhaps a short story or two in anthologies. Maybe he'll be my new Jack Vance/Cordwainer Smith/James Schmitz/Fred Saberhagen discovery. Excellent! The book's off to a great start with a stunning, thrilling and heart-stopping little excursion out in the rigging of a giant sail-type(Cordwainer

I have a problem with all Wolfe's books I have read so far: they make me feel dumb. This can be attributed to two, maybe three things.(1) Wolfe meticulously crafts his stories so that they tread beyond normal "...and then this happened, then this and then this!" narratives. That is to say, this is exactly what he does in the Book of the New Sun, but in such a fashion that I rarely have a moment to breathe in between passages. Everything flows to and fro, which makes this a very exhausting and

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

There the stars swarmed still, but it seemed to me they formed a great disk in the sky, and when I looked at the edges of that disk, I saw they were streaked and old. Since that time I have often pondered on that sight, here beside the all-devouring sea. It is said that so great a thing is the universe that no one can see it as it is, but only as it wasThe Urth of the New Sun begins as a space opera a turbulent journey along the corridors of space and time Then the monstrous spaceship arrives

I knew things were going to get interesting the moment we started the book on the spaceship "Yesod", the ninth branch on the tree of life directly above the root, the kingdom, in the Kabbalah. Yesod is the ship that is outside of time and Maya, and the source of the Sun's renewal and the place where Sevarian must make or break his new covenant, the place of the new foundation for humanity.Nuts? Hell yeah. There's plenty of crazy going on in the whole series, but the fact we start moving up