num_pages: 317
description: Volume Four of the Book of the New Sun. Severian the Torturer continues his epic journey across the lands of Urth, a journey as fraught with peril as it is with wonder. Exiled from his guild he is an outcast, but his travels are woven with strange portents. The Claw of the Conciliator, relic of a prophet and promise of a new age, flames to life in his hands. He carries the great sword Terminus Est, the Line of Division. The dwellers in the deep waters offer him a kingdom under the seas. And he is hunted and driven by terrors from beyond Urth. Now all his travels move him inexorably toward a grander fate, a destiny that he dare not refuse. For a devouring blackness gnaws at the heart of the Old Sun, and the fate of Urth rests in the return of the Conciliator, the New Sun long foretold.
language: English
title: The Citadel of the Autarch
titlecomplete: The Citadel of the Autarch (The Book of the New Sun, #4)
characters: Severian, Thecla
genres: Audiobook, American, Science Fiction, Classics, Novels, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fiction, Fantasy, Dying Earth, Speculative Fiction
ratings_count: 8631
places: Urth
series: Solar Cycle, The Book of the New Sun
awards: awardedAt: 410256000000
name: Nebula Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 441792000000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Fantasy Novel (1983) and Nominee for Best SF Novel, awardedAt: 441792000000
name: British Science Fiction Association Award, awardedAt: 441792000000
name: John W. Campbell Memorial Award, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Premio Ignotus
category: Mejor novela extranjera (Best Foreign Novel), awardedAt: 473414400000
name: Prix Tour-Apollo Award, awardedAt: 410256000000
name: Balrog Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 441792000000
name: SF Chronicle Award
category: Novel (1983)
publisher: Simon & Schuster