The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe

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The Shadow of the Torturer

by Gene Wolfe | 1984

The first volume 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 torturer's guild - betrays his oath. Exiled, he begins his phantasmagoric odyssey through the perilous world of the deep, distant future.

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Accolades

Nebula Award
Finalist 1980

John W. Campbell Award
Finalist 1981

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