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      Mass Market Paperback Sword of Lictor Book
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      ISBN: 0671499459

      ISBN13: 9780671499457

      The Sword of the Lictor

      (Part of the The Book of the New Sun (#3) Series and Solar Cycle (#3) Series)

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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 the mysterious Dr Talos. This description may be from another edition of this product.

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      Rated 4 stars
      volume three

      By Thriftbooks.com User,

      'The Sword of the Lictor' is volume three of Gene Wolfe's 'Book of the New Sun', so you probably don't want to read this one first. We follow the further adventures of Severian as he reaches the city of Thrax to take up his duties as Lictor. However again he shows mercy to a client and if forced to flee the city into the mountainous wilds of the north. Like the previous two books this is a multi-layered story with many allusions...

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      More than just SCI FI

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      The novel continues the story of Severian and leads him through new adventures which confront him with new perspectives and thoughts. This book is more than just a Sci fi novel, since it offers a critical view of the forces in the portrayed society and so different and similar at the same time from maybe ours. Among the themes dealt with by Severian are life, humanity etc. It is definately worth reading if you don't only...

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