num_pages: 372
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Urth of the New Sun
titlecomplete: The Urth of the New Sun (The Book of the New Sun, #5)
genres: American, Novels, Science Fiction, Dying Earth, Science Fiction Fantasy, Literature, Fantasy, Time Travel, Fiction, Speculative Fiction
ratings_count: 7132
series: Solar Cycle, The Book of the New Sun
awards: awardedAt: 568022400000
name: Hugo Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 568022400000
name: Nebula Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Seiun Award 星雲賞
category: Best Translated Long Form
publisher: Orb Books