Sword and Citadel: The Second Half of the Book of the New Sun

Outstanding...A major work of twentieth-century American literature. The New York Times Book Review

Wonderfully vivid and inventive...the most extraordinary hero in the history of the heroic epic. Washington Post Book World

Brilliant...terrific...a fantasy so epic it beggars the mind. An extraordinary work of art! Philadelphia Inquirer

Outstanding...A major work of twentieth-century American literature. The New York Times Book Review

Wonderfully vivid and inventive...the most extraordinary hero in the history of the heroic epic. Washington Post Book World

Brilliant...terrific...a fantasy so epic it beggars the mind. An extraordinary work of art! Philadelphia Inquirer

Outstanding...A major work of twentieth-century American literature. --The New York Times Book Review

Wonderfully vivid and inventive...the most extraordinary hero in the history of the heroic epic. --Washington Post Book World

Brilliant...terrific...a fantasy so epic it beggars the mind. An extraordinary work of art! --Philadelphia Inquirer

Gene Wolfe has been called the finest writer the science fiction world has yet produced by The Washington Post. A former engineer, he has written numerous books and won a variety of awards for his SF writing.