After leaving the Citadel, where his Guild is located, he travels from the city of Nessus to the city of Thrax to take up the post of Lictor. The narrative follows Severian as he progresses from Apprentice to Journeyman, and his subsequent banishment from his Guild. Told in the first person, and interjected here and there with the narrator’s own philosophical and theological musings, the book recounts Severian’s journey through the far future world of Urth. The series is made up of four books, The Shadow of the Torturer, The Claw of the Conciliator, The Sword of the Lictor, and The Citadel of the Autarch, which follow the undertakings of Severian, an apprentice of The Seekers of Truth and Penitence (otherwise known as the Guild of Torturers), who is eventually exiled for showing mercy to a client. Lewis, and is often ranked in the top ten fantasy and science fiction novels of the past century.

Published from 1980 to 1983, the series has been compared to the great works of J.R.R. These are all elements that can be found in Gene Wolfe’s highly acclaimed science fiction series, The Book of the New Sun. Time travel and cloning have become commonplace. Technology, or what is left of it, resides in the hands of a chosen, elite few the rest are forced to adopt an almost preindustrial existence. Raw materials and fuels have been exhausted. Imagine Earth in the far future at a time when the sun is dying, giving off its last beams of light.

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