The Sword of the Lictor by Gene Wolfe
The Sword of the Lictor

Gene Wolfe

The Sword of the Lictor

The Book of the New Sun #3

Gene Wolfe

302 pages first pub 1982 (editions)

fiction fantasy science fiction speculative fiction adventurous challenging mysterious slow-paced
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Severian, the disgraced apprentice torturer, has reached his place of exile - Thrax, the city of Windowless Rooms, where he must take up his post as Lictor, executioner and torturer. However, he flees the city and heads into the mountains, to meet...

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