About

Gene Wolfe (1931-2019) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He was noted for his dense, allusive prose as well as the strong influence of his Catholic faith, to which he converted after marrying a Catholic. Olfe’s best-known and most highly regarded work is the multi-volume novel The Book of the New Sun. Set in a bleak, distant future influenced by Jack Vance’s Dying Earth series, the story details the life of Severian, a journeyman torturer, exiled from his guild for showing compassion to one of the condemned.

Gene Wolfe (1931-2019) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer. Wolfe’s best-known and most highly regarded work is the multi-volume novel The Book of the New Sun. He was noted for his dense, allusive prose as well as the strong influence of his Catholic faith, to which he converted after marrying a Catholic. Set in a bleak, distant future influenced by Jack Vance’s Dying Earth series, the story details the life of Severian, a journeyman torturer, exiled from his guild for showing compassion to one of the condemned.

In this second volume in The Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe, winner of World Fantasy's Lifetime Achievement Award, Severian travels across a far future world filled with wonder and terror, encountering the Green Man, a traveler from the future, and the Autarch, the ruler Severian is destined to succeed The novels of Gene Wolfe, says John Clute, are perhaps the most emotionally violent texts we are likely to encounter in the genres of the fantastic triumph of imagination and inventiveness.

Contains eight full color, full page illustrations by Alex Preuss e will publish all three remaining volumes of the series, including The Sword of the Lictor, The Citadel of the Autarch, The Urth of the New Sun and The Castle of the Otter.

Edition Details

• Limited to 100 copies, each signed by Gene Wolfe.
• Full color artwork by Alexander Preuss.
• Slipcase, ribbon marker, head and tail bands, three-piece cloth construction.

External Links

• The Claw of the Conciliator (First Edition). Centipede Press page for The Claw of the Conciliator (First Edition)
• Gene Wolfe (ISFDB). ISFDB entry for Gene Wolfe