The Book of the New Sun #1-5 Free Audiobook

Gene Wolfe

Book One: The Shadow of the Torturer
Recently voted the greatest fantasy of all time after The Lord of the Rings, 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 wonderful ways. Severian is a torturer, exiled from his guild after falling in love with one of his victims, and now journeying to the distant city of Thrax, armed with his ancient executioner’s sword, Terminus Est.

Book Two: The Claw of the Conciliator
The book continues the story of Severian, an apprentice in the Seekers for Truth and Penitence (the guild of torturers), describing his journey north to the city of Thrax. On his way lie many wonders, as well as the House Absolute, the ancient seat of the rulers of Urth.

Book Three: The Sword of the Lictor
Banished for the sin of mercy, Severian, one of the ancient guild of Torturers, flees from exile. In a mountain wilderness he meets the Alzabo, in whom those eaten seem to live on, adopts as son only to lose him again, discharges an old debt to vengeance, encounters fanged aliens who hide behind masks of beauty, and helps the people of the floating islands in their unending battle for freedom.

Book Four: The Citadel of the Autarch
Severian the Torturer’s odyssey in a far future Earth with a dying sun reaches it’s initial conclusion.

Book Five: The Urth of the New Sun
Severian’s odyssey continues aboard a starship into another universe, where he hopes the people of Urth will be deemed worthy of receiving a “white fountain” that could rejuvenate the core of the old, dying sun of Urth and bring about a rebirth of the planet.