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Title	:	The Citadel of the Autarch (The Book of the New Sun #4)
Author	:	Gene Wolfe
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 330 pages
Published	:	November 1st 1983 by Timescape Books (first published January 1983)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Science Fiction. Fiction

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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.

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Original Title:	The Citadel of the Autarch
ISBN:	0671496662 (ISBN13: 9780671496661)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Book of the New Sun #4, Solar Cycle #4
Characters:	Severian, Thecla
Setting:	Urth
Literary Awards:	Nebula Award Nominee for Best Novel (1983), Locus Award Nominee for Best Fantasy Novel (1983) and Nominee for Best SF Novel (1984), British Science Fiction Association Award Nominee (1984), John W. Campbell Memorial Award (1984), Premio Ignotus Nominee for Mejor novela extranjera (Best Foreign Novel) (1996) Prix Tour-Apollo Award (1985), Balrog Award Nominee for Best Novel (1983), SF Chronicle Award Nominee for Novel (1983) (1984)

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Ratings: 4.21 From 6477 Users | 213 Reviews

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4.0 stars. Excellent end to a unique and ground-breaking science-fantasy series. I have never read anything like this before. Now that I have completed all four books, I will need to go back and re-read them (or re-listen to them) again as there is so much going on that I believe the second time through may be even more enjoyable than the first. HIGHEST POSSIBLE RECOMMENDATION!!!Winner: John W. Campbell Award for Best Novel (1984)Nominee: Britsh Science Fiction Award for Best Novel (1984)

The conclusion of the Book of the New Sunthis series was apparently written as one manuscript and divided into four books for publication and they truly feel that way. I think that to properly appreciate it, I would have to go back and read through all four continuously. The second time through, I would know which details to pay attention to and a lot of the small confusions which I have regarding the plot would likely resolve themselves. Unfortunately, life is short and Im unlikely to be

I picked up the first book of these, Shadow of the Tortuer, from the Edgartown public library when I was twelve or thirteen, because it had cover where the hero held a sword, and that was the only sort of book I read when I was twelve or thirteen. A thousand pages later I was left in awkward awe at the journey; twenty years later, I feel similarly. Book of the New Sun is, for my money, the only work of high fantasy which can be justly called literature. It functions, first of all, as an

This is the fourth book in the series The Book of the New Sun. Theres still one more book, but this was the conclusion to the main story arc that our main character, Severian, has been telling us. This review is therefore more of a review of the first four books as a whole than it is of this fourth book in particular.Ive enjoyed this series quite a bit. Its an interesting mix of genres. It was clear from early on that this was really science fiction, and that becomes increasingly apparent as the

It is done.Not an easy road, as I was warned - but hell of a ride.This final installment starts off mildly enough, as we spend a considerable amount of time in a field hospital, listening to a bunch of entertaining but seemingly meaningless stories and fables. Then there's the war itself, seemingly building up to the exciting climax as we're finally caught up with the events and see what the whole fuss even was about. And then it gets weird. I find myself doubling back to realize what the hell

It is more than a month since I finished the tetralogy The Book of the New Sun, but I have not, until now, reviewed its final volume, The Citadel of the Autarch. I am not yet certain I even like these books, let alone how to think about them. Perhaps this is a sign of Wolfes greatness, for writers of genius often require serious reflection and re-reading. (Ursula Le Guin has called Wolfe our Melville, and this reminds me that I dont believe I adequately appreciated Moby Dick until at least my

I am by no means competent to review this literary masterpiece, but having read the litany of confusion on the review pages of this volume and its companions I wish to state the following, simply in order to be helpful.1. The four volumes of The Book of the New Sun are one long novel, not four separate books. It was originally published in four volumes because it was too expensive and cumbersome to print as one. Don't expect the satisfaction of an ending at the conclusion of every volume.