New Sun

After finishing ASoIaF in June, I have been re-reading Gene Wolfes Book of the New Sun, which is ahead of anything Tolkien or GRRM has ever written.

Odds and ends 2009

The Book of the New Sun is a stunning achievement, a work to rival Gormenghast and The Lord of the Rings for significance and resonance, and even more startlingly its sequel series are important works in their own rights and not mere cash-ins.

Archive 2008-06-01 Adam Whitehead 2008

The Book of the New Sun is a stunning achievement, a work to rival Gormenghast and The Lord of the Rings for significance and resonance, and even more startlingly its sequel series are important works in their own rights and not mere cash-ins.

The SFX Top 100 List (continued) Adam Whitehead 2008

I knew then that our old world of Urth had perished, even as Dr. Tabs had foretold, and that our boat floated not there, but upon the waters of the Urth of the New Sun, which is called Ushas.

The Urth of the New Sun Wolfe, Gene 1987

(Why Wolfe's Book of the New Sun, which is also a series, isn't on this list instead of the other one is a mystery to me.)

SF Gospel 2009

What this prophetess calls the New Sun is such a fountain. "

The Urth of the New Sun Wolfe, Gene 1987

He wrote an entire book, The Urth of the New Sun, that functions partially as a glossary after the fact.

Dumping on your readers « It Doesn't Have To Be Right… 2010

Books in the series: The Shadow of the Torturer, The Claw of the Conciliator, The Sword of the Lictor, The Citadel of the Autarch my review of these four here, The Urth of the New Sun.

The Best Science Fiction Series « It Doesn't Have To Be Right… 2010

A passing point, but there's a scene that reminded me of that bit in Gene Wolfe's New Sun, where I don't have the book to hand Severian sees an image, fantastically ancient from his point of view, of a 20th-century NASA astronaut standing on the moon, which he discusses in terms of the knight and his strange armour.

Alastair Reynolds, Terminal World (2010) Adam Roberts 2010

When asked during a 2002 interview with the New Sun to describe his future goals, Inamori answered, "As long as I live, I would like to continue to contribute to the material and spiritual happiness of humanity and society."

Japan Airlines Meets Its Savior 2010