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I enjoyed parts of it, but overall I can’t recommend it, and I found it frustrating and disappointing as a sequel. This novel is somewhere between those two poles, with more annoying guesswork and skipping around in time than Book. Peace was just the opposite, I never could figure out exactly what was happening, and the story skipped around continuously in time to add to the confusion. It was so in Book of the New Sun a few times, but there was enough continuous narrative around those events to make filling in the blanks not too difficult. The Urth of the New Sun is Gene Wolfes fifth book in The Book of New Sun series. Wolfe has an annoying tendency to bury or skip over the most important events of a story, leaving the reader puzzled and unsure what exactly happened, or at least this reader. If he is worthy, he will be granted the power to bring a new sun to Urth, restoring vitality to the world, but at the cost of great cataclysms and calamities for the inhabitants. Severian has been granted a chance to travel through space to the distant world of Yesod to be judged. It follows Severian, the ruler or Autarch of Urth, which is our own world far in the future when our sun is dying. I liked “The Book of the New Sun,” a four-novel series which I reviewed in PART ONE and PART TWO, but did not at all like his novel “Peace.” This book is called a coda to Book of the New Sun, so I thought I’d try it. Gene Wolfe’s books that I’ve read so far have been a mixed bag for me.

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