title: Sword and Citadel (The Book of the New Sun, Vol. 2)
author:  Gene Wolfe 
description: Part of the Fantasy Masterworks series; [Gene Wolfes] most intricate and personal work...it is central to any full attempt to understand his other novels, his sense of the great painfulness of any shaped life, or his methods in general The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction; A tricky, evil, deep and remarkable novel Neil Gaiman; Gene Wolfe is unique. If there were forty or fifty of this first-rate author - no, lets be reasonable and ask Higher Authorities for only four or five - American Literature as a whole would be enormously enriched Chicago Sun-Times; May be his finest. Intricately told.... [its] implications are complexly appalling The Encyclopedia of Fantasy; a spellbinding, brilliantly imaginative tour de force, it ranks alongside the finest literary works of our time.
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  **The Urth of the New Sun**
  
  
  **by Gene Wolfe**
  
  
  _Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night_
  
  
  _Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight:_
  
  
  _And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught_
  
  
  _The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light._
  
  
  —FITZGERALD
  
  
  [Chapter I](C:\\Program Files\\ABC Amber Text Converter\\)
  
  
  The Mainmast
  
  
  [Chapter II](C:\\Program Files\\ABC Amber Text Converter\\)
  
  
  The Fifth Sailor
  
  
  [Chapter III](C:\\Program Files\\ABC Amber Text Converter\\)
  
  
  The Cabin
  
  
  [Chapter IV](C:\\Program Files\\ABC Amber Text Converter\\)
  
  
  The Citizens of the Sails
  
  
  [Chapter V](C:\\Program Files\\ABC Amber Text Converter\\)
  
  
  The Hero and the Hierodules
  
  
  [Chapter VI](C:\\Program Files\\ABC Amber Text Converter\\)
  
  
  A Death and the Dark
  
  
  [Chapter VII](C:\\Program Files\\ABC Amber Text Converter\\)
  
  
  A Death in the Light
  
  
  [Chapter VIII](C:\\Program Files\\ABC Amber Text Converter\\)
  
  
  The Empty Sleeve
  
  
  [Chapter IX](C:\\Program Files\\ABC Amber Text Converter\\)
  
  
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