Severian of the Guild by Gene Wolfe

Severian of the Guild by Gene Wolfe

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. Out of love, Severian helps her commit suicide and escape her fate - no more unforgivable act for a torturer. 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 make his enemies pursue him with ever more determination ...Welcome to a world in which nothing is quite as it seems; to an unreliable narrator; to extraordinary, vivid and evocative writing; to one of the greatest genre classics of all time.

"There are some books you have to have read if you want to claim to know science fictionThis is one of them." -- Liz Holliday SCI FI NOW

Gene Wolfe, born in New York and raised in Texas, trained as a mechanical engineer. He began to publish short stories in the 1960s. He has won many awards, including a World Fantasy Award for THE SHADOW OF THE TORTURER and a Nebula for THE CLAW OF THE CONCILIATOR. He is a World Fantasy Life Achievement winner.

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ISBN 13	9780575081307
ISBN 10	0575081309
Title	Severian of the Guild
Author	Gene Wolfe
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Orion Publishing Co
Year published	2007-10-18
Number of pages	912
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