The Book of the New Sun is a tetral­o­gy com­posed of The Shad­ow of the Tor­tur­er, The Claw of The Con­cil­ia­tor, The Sword of the Lic­tor and The Citadel of the Autarch. It is sort of a blend of both fan­ta­sy and sci­ence fic­tion in terms of genre, but with chap­ter titles like “Escha­tol­ogy and Gen­e­sis” it is also much more than that.
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