Shadow & Claw (The Book of the New Sun

“A major work of twentieth-century American literature...Wolfe creates a truly alien social order that the reader comes to experience from within...once into it, there is no stopping.” ­―The New York Times on The Book of the New SunGene Wolfe has been called "the finest writer the science fiction world has yet produced" by the Washington Post.THE BOOK OF THE NEW SUN is unanimously acclaimed as 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 & Science Fiction.The Shadow of the Torturer is the first volume in this four-volume epic, the tale of young Severian, an apprent