![]() Fortunately, we can apply our knowledge of physics to parts of Severian's narrative to enhance our understanding of the series. Complicating this is the narrator's subtle unreliability, the strangeness of the setting, and the heavy presence of religious allegory. The narrator Severian makes little distinction between natural and supernatural or magical phenomena, but simply imparts his experiences and offers such explanations and speculations as he can provide. It's difficult to distinctly categorize the series as either science fiction or fantasy. Set a million years in the future on a world with a dying sun, where the moon is green and irrigated, daylight is red, and 'rotting jungles' circle 'the waist of the world', it follows the story. The first four books chronicle his journey from the position of torturer's apprentice to Autarch of the Commonwealth of Urth, and the final book covers his Christ-like ascension to savior (and executioner) of mankind. The events of these books take place in the distant future and are written as memoirs of the main character Severian. ![]() There are four volumes.Īdditionally, there is a sequel titled. The Book of the New Sun is a series of novels by Gene Wolfe in the speculative fiction genre. ![]() This is a class project by Brendon Fuhs for Physics 211X (section F03) submitted on November 24, 2010 ![]()
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