num_pages: 440
description: Lexicon Urthus (second edition) is an alphabetical dictionary for the complete Urth Cycle by Gene The Shadow of the Torturer; The Claw of the Conciliator; The Sword of the Lictor; The Citadel of the Autarch; the sequel Urth of the New Sun; the novella Empires of Foliage and Flower; the short stories The Cat The Map and The Old Woman Whose Rolling Pin Is the Sun; and Gene Wolfe's own commentaries in The Castle of the Otter. The first edition was nominated for a World Fantasy Award. This second edition available for the first time in paperback includes 300 new entries. When the first edition was published Science Fiction Age Lexicon Urthus makes a perfect gift for any fan of [Wolfe's] work and from the way his words sell it appears that there are many deserving readers out there waiting. Gary K. Wolfe in Locus A convenient and well researched glossary of names and terms. . . . It provides enough of a gloss on the novels that it almost evokes Wolfe's distant future all by itself. . . . It can provide both a useful reference and a good deal of fun. Donald Keller said in the New York Review of Science A fruitful product of obsession this is a thorough . . . dictionary of the Urth Cycle. . . . Andre-Driussi's research has been exhaustive and he has discovered many fascinating things . . . [it is] head-spinning to confront a myriad of small and large details some merely interesting others jawdropping.
language: English
title: Lexicon Urthus: A Dictionary for the Urth Cycle
publisher: Sirius Fiction