One is not born into the torturers' guild, one is adopted there from the children of its victims. In a stunning blend of the lyric extravagance of fantasy and the keen edge of science fiction, meeting in a future so distant that it seems like the ancient past, Gene Wolfe begins his chronicle of Severian the Torturer, in this the first volume of The Book of the New Sun. "One expects any book from Gene Wolfe to be a classic - and here it is." - Thomas M.
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