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Original Title:	Shadow & Claw
ISBN:	0312890176 (ISBN13: 9780312890179)
Edition Language:	English URL http://us.macmillan.com/shadowclaw/GeneWolfe
Series:	The Book of the New Sun #1-2 , Solar Cycle #1-2 omnibus

Shadow & Claw (The Book of the New Sun #1-2 )

Gene Wolfe

Paperback | Pages: 413 pages

Rating: 4.02 | 15562 Users | 1050 Reviews

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Title	:	Shadow & Claw (The Book of the New Sun #1-2 )
Author	:	Gene Wolfe
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 413 pages
Published	:	October 15th 1994 by Orb Books
Categories	:	Fantasy. Science Fiction. Fiction. Science Fiction Fantasy

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The Shadow of the Torturer is the tale of young Severian, an apprentice in the Guild of Torturers on the world called Urth, exiled for committing the ultimate sin of his profession -- showing mercy toward his victim. The Claw of the Conciliator continues the saga of Severian, banished from his home, as he undertakes a mythic quest to discover the awesome power of an ancient relic, and learn the truth about his hidden destiny. The Book of the New Sun is unanimously acclaimed as Gene Wolfe's most remarkable work, hailed as "a masterpiece of science fantasy comparable in importance to the major works of Tolkien and Lewis" by Publishers Weekly, and "one of the most ambitious works of speculative fiction in the twentieth century" by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Shadow & Claw brings together the first two books of the tetralogy in one volume.

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There's good books and great books and then there's books like this that make you want to run out into the street, accosting strangers, jerking at the sleeves of their orange pantsuits and suspenders, excoriating them for not having sampled this, the finest of all science fiction slash fantasy slash both (!) novels. You want to beat people senseless with A.L.F. dolls for not having read this yet. You will hold it high over your head when you're done with it, passing serene and godlike through

DNF at page 291After a lot of torturing ourselves, my reading partner and I agreed to just DNF this. In the beginning, the book was kept afloat by curious hints at really interesting world-building, interest in seeing how we arrive at the frame narrative that is also hinted at, and the author having some moments of literary writing that balanced out the moments of painfully cliched or awkward prose. For a very long time, we were willing to forgive a lot and make excuses for everything from the

If Peake's Titus Alone(after being rewritten by Lovecraft and Borges) was narrated by the crazy guy from Nabokov's Pale Fire it would only hint at the joys of this book...

I stopped after The Shadow of the Torturer.It was ok, and I fully grasp the idea that a reader should be doing a lot of the work when reading a book. But not this much work.

There are certain books that can be considered life-changing experiences. Gene Wolfe is an author who has written one of those for me. The Shadow of the Torturer may very well be my favorite fantasy book of all-time if you pinned me down and forced me to give you an answer. I first read it in my early twenties, and recently picked it up again because I wanted to visit the world of Urth again. In many ways, The Shadow of the Torturer has everything that I look for in a great read: awesome

Update 5/26: finally finished. Man, this is an intense book. I was tempted to give up on it at various points because it's so thoroughly dick lit -- I mean, the hero carries around a sword that he unsheathes, oils, and re-sheaths routinely throughout his travels, and he sleeps with nearly every woman he encounters, but usually in the most patronizing way imaginable (there's actually an extremely painful, cringeworthy attempt at some sort of epiphanic look into the male psyche, wherein it is

This is a handy volume, with the first two books of the series together. That's especially useful to someone new to Gene Wolfe since the first book (Shadow of the Torturer) does very little to establish a plotline and ends extremely abruptly. Your curiousity for what happened after the end is sated by flipping over to the second book (Claw of the Conciliator), which does more with plotlines, though it is still a wildly tangential book. This is not a plot-hound's series. It's not even a