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Informationen zum Autor Gene Wolfe (1931-2019) Gene Wolfe was born in New York in 1931 and raised in Texas. After serving in the Korean War he graduated in mechanical engineering from the University of Houston and worked in engineering until becoming an editor of a trade periodical! Plant Engineering! in 1972. Following his retirement in 1984! he wrote full-time. The author of over three dozen award-wining novels and story collections! he is regarded as one of modern fantasy's most important writers. His best-known work! the four volume far-future Book of the New Sun! won the World Fantasy! BSFA! Nebula! British Fantasy and John W. Campbell memorial Awards. He won the World Fantasy Award four times for his novels and collections and the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award for his extraordinary body of work. Gene Wolfe lived in Illinois with his wife! Rosemary! until he passed away in April 2019. Klappentext Award winning quest of discovery through an Earth fantastically transformed by aeons of humanity. Award winning quest of discovery through an Earth fantastically transformed by aeons of humanity. Zusammenfassung Recently voted the greatest fantasy of all time! after The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit! Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun is an extraordinary epic! set a million years in the future! on an Earth transformed in mysterious and wondrous ways! in a time when our present culture is no longer even a memory. Severian! the central character! is a torturer! exiled from his guild after falling in love with one of his victims! and journeying to the distant city of Thrax! armed with his ancient executioner's sword! Terminus Est. This edition contains the second two volumes of this four volume novel! The Sword of the Lictor and The Citadel of the Autarch.
