Sword and Citadel: The Sword of the Lictor, The Citadel of the Autarch

Gene Wolfe

Millennium Publications, 2000 - Fantasy fiction, American - 608 pages

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.

What people are saying

Review: Sword and Citadel (The Book of the New Sun #3-4 )

User Review  - Jay McNair - Goodreads

Severian is so serious and earnest; I think that's one of the things I like best about this book. He is unperturbed by the surprising things that happen to him: he becomes a father, a judge, a slave ...

Review: Sword and Citadel (The Book of the New Sun #3-4 )

User Review  - David Manns - Goodreads

The final two volumes in Wolfe's masterwork where we continue to follow Severian on his travels across the Urth under the baleful glare of the dying sun. Finally reaching the northern city of Thrax ...

About the author

SALES POINTS* #12 in the Millennium Fantasy Masterworks series, a library of the most original and influential fantasy ever written * 'The final two volumes of one of the greatest novels ever written' Kim Stanley Robinson* 'A masterpiece. Totally original, new, incomparable; the beginning of something great' Ursula Le Guin* 'One of the great science fantasy epics of all time' George R.R. Martin

Bibliographic information

• Title: Sword and Citadel: The Sword of the Lictor, The Citadel of the Autarch; Volume 12 of Fantasy masterworks; Volume 12 of Millennium Fantasy Masterworks Series; Volume 2 of The book of the new sun, Gene Wolfe
• Author: Gene Wolfe
• Edition: 2
• Publisher: Millennium Publications, 2000
• ISBN: 1857987004, 9781857987003
• Length: 608 pages