Recently voted the greatest fantasy of all time, after The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun is an extraordinary epic, set a million years in the future, on an Earth transformed in mysterious and wondrous ways, in a time when our present culture is no longer even a memory. Severian, the central character, is a torturer, exiled from his guild after falling in love with one of his victims, and journeying to the distant city of Thrax, armed with his ancient executioner's sword, Terminus Est. This edition contains the first four volumes of the series.

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Recently voted the greatest fantasy of all time, after The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun is an extraordinary epic, set a million years in… Развернуть 

Severian is a torturer, born to the guild and with an exceptionally promising career ahead of him . . . until he falls in love with one of his victims, a beautiful young noblewoman. Her excruciations are delayed for some months and, out of love, Severian helps her commit suicide and escape her fate. For a torturer, there is no more unforgivable act. In punishment he is exiled from the guild and his home city to the distant metropolis of Thrax with little more than Terminus Est, a fabled sword, to his name. Along the way he has to learn to survive in a wider world without the guild - a world in which he has already made both allies and enemies. And a strange gem is about to fall into his possession, which will only make his enemies pursue him with ever-more determination . . .

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Severian is a torturer, born to the guild and with an exceptionally promising career ahead of him . . . until he falls in love with one of his victims, a beautiful young… Развернуть 

The second volume of "The Book of the New Sun".
The torturer Severian continues his journey of exile to the city Thrax, carrying with him the ancient executioner's sword and the Claw of the Conciliator, a gem of extraterrestrial power and beauty which no one man is meant to possess.

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The second volume of "The Book of the New Sun".
The torturer Severian continues his journey of exile to the city Thrax, carrying with him the ancient executioner's sword and the… Развернуть 

Если вы держите в руках эту книгу, значит, рукопись Северьяна, бывшего подмастерья гильдии палачей, достигла своей цели, чудесным образом преодолев преграды пространства и времени. Читателю, в чьих руках она окажется, представляется уникальная возможностьпройти бок о бок с ее главным героем трудный и опасный путь, пережив неповторимые приключения. В красочном фейерверке удивительных событий Северьян не раз оказывается во Времени после собственной смерти или же задолго до своего рождения. И если у историинет конца, то, может быть, это - начало?

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Если вы держите в руках эту книгу, значит, рукопись Северьяна, бывшего подмастерья гильдии палачей, достигла своей цели, чудесным образом преодолев преграды пространства и… Развернуть 

Долгое Солнце тянется вдоль оси гигантского цилиндра — звездного ковчега, который более тысячи лет назад запустил в далекий космос Тифон, последний межзвездный монарх, правивший на Урсе. И вот наконец корабль достиг места назначения — далекой звезды, вокруг которой вращаются две пригодные для жизни планеты, Синяя и Зеленая. Патера Шелк, праведный священник неправедной религии (ведь боги Долгого Солнца — это компьютерные матрицы, снятые с самого Тифона и его родичей), должен возглавить исход в новый мир. С ним, как с Моисеем, говорит подлинный Бог, пребывающий вовне; ему, как и Моисею, не суждено увидеть Землю Обетованную. Но как знать, может быть и суждено...

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Долгое Солнце тянется вдоль оси гигантского цилиндра — звездного ковчега, который более тысячи лет назад запустил в далекий космос Тифон, последний межзвездный монарх, правивший… Развернуть 

It has been nearly a decade since the completion of Gene Wolfe's four-volume epic The Book of the New Sun, "one of the modern masterpieces of imaginative literature - an evocation of a world so far in the future that magic and technology, poetry and science, are indistinguishable, a world heavy with time but not yet bereft of hope, a world brought to life by Mr. Wolfe's unique blend of slightly archaic diction and ever-surprising vocabulary" (The New York Times Book Review). In the intervening years his award-winning novels and stories have solidified his reputation both in fantasy and science fiction with a cascade of stunning achievements. No sf writer has been more highly and continually praised. Now Wolfe returns to science fiction with a mighty multi-volume mega-novel of mystery, war, and revolution, The Book of the Long Sun, set on a world, the Whorl, existing inside a giant starship sent from Urth to colonize a distant planet. Wolfe's previous work in this future universe has been hailed as a "major landmark of contemporary American literature" by Booklist, and "a masterpiece of science fantasy comparable in importance to the major works of Tolkien and Lewis" by Publishers Weekly. Enormous in breadth and scope, Wolfe's ambitious new work opens out into a world of wonders, of gods and humans, aliens and machines, and mysterious adventures far out in space and deep inside the human spirit. It is set on a ship-world whose origins are shrouded in legend, ruled by strange gods who appear infrequently to their worshippers on large screens, and peopled by a human race changed by eons of time, yet familiar. Nightside the Long Sun is the beginning of a masterpiece of science fiction for this decade. Life on the Whorl, and the struggles and triumphs of Patera Silk to satisfy the demands of the gods, will captivate readers yearning for something new and different in science fiction, for the magic of the future. The Book of the Long Sun is launched with success.

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It has been nearly a decade since the completion of Gene Wolfe's four-volume epic The Book of the New Sun, "one of the modern masterpieces of imaginative literature - an evocation… Развернуть