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Recently voted the greatest fantasy of all time, after the lord of the rings and the hobbit, gene wolfes the book of the new sun is an extraordinary epic, set a. The locus magazine ranked the book as the 3rd best fantasy novel in the year 1998, based on a subscribers poll. Gene wolfes the book of the new sun is one of the key works of fantasy of the past forty years, a series that shows a staggering breadth of imagination and which reconfigured what the genre was capable of. It is a work both like and unlike its predecessor, and is essential reading for anyone who appreciated the book of the new sun. Free download or read online the book of the new sun pdf epub book. Click download or read online button to get gene wolfe book now. Author wolfe was born on may 7, 1931 as gene rodman wolfe. For me, i heard about him through neil gaiman where he mentioned the book of the new sun as one of his favorites in an interview. After serving in the korean war he graduated in mechanical engineering from the university of houston and worked in engineering until becoming an editor of a trade periodical, plant engineering, in 1972. The main characters of this fantasy, science fiction story are severian. Chicago suntimes gene wolfes new book soars, falls free, runs like the river that runs through it from universe to universe, between life and death and life again.
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