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Author
Index
W |
Gene
Wolfe |
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Title
Index
The |
The
Shadow of the
Torturer |
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| Year |
1980 |
| Publisher |
Arrow
Books Limited |
| ISBN |
0099263203 |
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Synopsis
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Volume
One of The Book of
the New Sun
The Earth is
old and the sun is
dying. In
the great Citadel
of the City
Imperishable,
Severian,
apprentice to the
torturers' guild,
betrays his
oath.
Exiled, Severian
begins his
phantasmagoric
odyssey through
the dark and
perilous world of
the deep, distant
future. |
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Review
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"Gene
Wolfe is a wizard,
a torturer,
frightening,
delightful.
Beware! This is
magic stuff! ...
Totally original,
new, incomparable:
the beginning of
something great,
the first
exploration of a
new world.
The first volume
of a
masterpiece."
Ursula K le
Guin |
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NASA
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Mission
Completed
The
sun rises
on the
Space
Shuttle
Discovery
as it
rests on
the runway
at Edwards
Air Force
Base,
California,
after a
safe
landing
August 9,
2005 to
complete
the
STS-114
mission. |
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