{"product_id":"9781250781253","title":"Shadow \u0026 Claw: The First Half of the Book of the New Sun","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A major work of twentieth-century American literature...Wolfe creates a truly alien social order that the reader comes to experience from within...once into it, there is no stopping.\" ---\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e on \u003ci\u003eThe Book of the New Sun\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGene Wolfe has been called \"the finest writer the science fiction world has yet produced\" by the Washington Post. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTHE BOOK OF THE NEW SUN is unanimously acclaimed as Wolfe's most remarkable work, hailed as \"a masterpiece of science fantasy comparable in importance to the major works of Tolkien and Lewis\" by Publishers Weekly and \"one of the most ambitious works of speculative fiction in the twentieth century\" by the Magazine of Fantasy \u0026amp; Science Fiction. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Shadow of the Torturer\u003c\/i\u003e is the first volume in this four-volume epic, the tale of young Severian, an apprentice to the Guild of Torturers on the world called Urth, exiled for committing the ultimate sin of his profession- showing mercy toward his victim. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Claw of the Conciliator\u003c\/i\u003e continues the saga of Severian, banished from his home, as he undertakes a mythic quest to discover the awesome power of an ancient relic and learn the truth about his hidden destiny. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A masterpiece...the best science fiction I've read in years!\" --Ursula K. Le Guin \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis new Tor Essentials edition of \u003ci\u003eShadow \u0026amp; Claw\u003c\/i\u003e contains a new introduction by historian and novelist Ada Palmer, author of the award-winning Too Like the Lightning.","brand":"Tor Books (Author: Wolfe, Gene,Palmer, Ada)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49975701832037,"sku":"9781250781253","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0852\/0538\/5573\/files\/imageloader_c8ed4769-5471-49db-b7e1-b500ffdcb2da.jpg?v=1770207280","url":"https:\/\/paralleluniversebooks.com\/products\/9781250781253","provider":"Parallel Universe Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}