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Original Title:	The Urth of the New Sun
ISBN:	0312863942 (ISBN13: 9780312863944)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Book of the New Sun #5, Solar Cycle #5
Literary Awards:	Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel (1988), Nebula Award Nominee for Best Novel (1988), Seiun Award 星雲賞 Nominee for Best Translated Long Form (2009)

The Urth of the New Sun (The Book of the New Sun #5) Paperback | Pages: 372 pages

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Title	:	The Urth of the New Sun (The Book of the New Sun #5)
Author	:	Gene Wolfe
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 372 pages
Published	:	November 15th 1997 by Orb Books (first published 1987)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Science Fiction. Fiction

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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.

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I feel inclined to give this book a lower rating because I found it to be so much weaker than the rest of the New Sun series (and however much people describe it as a 'coda' or 'not really a sequel,' it really is a direct sequel), but I don't really think that would be fairit's still much better than a lot of the science fiction out there. That's the thing, though: where the other books in the New Sun cycle weren't so heavy on the S part of SF, this book is more heavily sciencey science fiction.

The Urth of the New Sun is considered--even by the author--to be a coda to the Book of the New Sun tetralogy, rather than a full-fledged fifth book of the series. I suppose this is because it differs considerably in tone from the four books that make up the Book. As the author tells it, he hadn't planned to write this fifth book until his publisher insisted, based on the assumption that Wolfe's readers would want to know how Severian's quest to bring the New Sun back to Urth went.Though many

This might have gotten 5 stars had I read it right after the other four volumes of the series - this book frequently hearkens back to events in earlier books, and I didn't always remember them. This is partly because the books are JAM PACKED with events and characters, and partly because of Wolfe's writing style. About that style: some authors telegraph "watch carefully! important stuff coming up!" and their work is pretty easy to skim as a result. Wolfe does the exact opposite, deliberately

I knew things were going to get interesting the moment we started the book on the spaceship "Yesod", the ninth branch on the tree of life directly above the root, the kingdom, in the Kabbalah. Yesod is the ship that is outside of time and Maya, and the source of the Sun's renewal and the place where Sevarian must make or break his new covenant, the place of the new foundation for humanity.Nuts? Hell yeah. There's plenty of crazy going on in the whole series, but the fact we start moving up

There the stars swarmed still, but it seemed to me they formed a great disk in the sky, and when I looked at the edges of that disk, I saw they were streaked and old. Since that time I have often pondered on that sight, here beside the all-devouring sea. It is said that so great a thing is the universe that no one can see it as it is, but only as it wasThe Urth of the New Sun begins as a space opera a turbulent journey along the corridors of space and time Then the monstrous spaceship arrives

OK, there is a TON that I still do not understand (not that Wolfe did not try to explain it, but it would take me some time studying it to figure it all out), but I loved the ending (view spoiler)[with the birth of a new Urth and people and gods (hide spoiler)]. I was also happy to revisit people from Severian's past and get caught up on what happened between the time he was Autarch and the time he left on his journey.

I knew things were going to get interesting the moment we started the book on the spaceship "Yesod", the ninth branch on the tree of life directly above the root, the kingdom, in the Kabbalah. Yesod is the ship that is outside of time and Maya, and the source of the Sun's renewal and the place where Sevarian must make or break his new covenant, the place of the new foundation for humanity.Nuts? Hell yeah. There's plenty of crazy going on in the whole series, but the fact we start moving up