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"It was in my hair, Severian," Dorcas said.
About this book
Shadow and Claw is an omnibus of the second two books of Gene Wolfe's *Book of the New Sun*. It chronicles the life and adventures of journeyman torturer Severian.
Themes & subjects
dying sunguildmedievalfar futurefantasyscience fantasy
First published 1994Setting
South America
About the author
Gene Wolfe
7 May 1931 – 14 April 2019
Gene Wolfe was born in Texas. After dropping out from Texas A&M University, he served in the Korean War, and later graduated from the University of Houston. He worked first as an engineer, notably designing part of the machine that produces Pringles potatoe chips, and later as the editor of a professional engineering magazine, *Plant Engineering*. Wolfe was a prolific writer, publishing over 30 novels and hundreds of short stories in his life. He was known for the complexity of his narratives and the depth of his characters, frequently using unreliable or fallible narrators to enhance his thematic focus on memory. His work explores topics of morality, often through the lens of his Catholi…
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