Hmmm so do I want to be 'that guy'? Ok sure, it's not like I can rest when _someone is wrong on the internet_
The Book of The New Sun (https://www.goodreads.com/series/41474-the-book-of-the-new-sun) is a *TETRALOGY* (plus a coda The Urth of the New Sun), so 5 books total, not a trilogy. It looks like the amazon link you have collected the first set of 4 books into two volumes each (Shadow and Claw along Sword and the Citadel) which is also how I read them back in my youth, so an understandable error to make.
But worth correcting because that's how the author viewed it, and Wolfe is one of my favorites. If you'd like more from him, I enjoyed this essay on writing multi-volume works collected by Gwern: https://gwern.net/doc/culture/2007-wolfe
Also I'd never read The City and The Stars but sounds fascinating, thanks for the rec!
Hmmm so do I want to be 'that guy'? Ok sure, it's not like I can rest when _someone is wrong on the internet_
The Book of The New Sun (https://www.goodreads.com/series/41474-the-book-of-the-new-sun) is a *TETRALOGY* (plus a coda The Urth of the New Sun), so 5 books total, not a trilogy. It looks like the amazon link you have collected the first set of 4 books into two volumes each (Shadow and Claw along Sword and the Citadel) which is also how I read them back in my youth, so an understandable error to make.
But worth correcting because that's how the author viewed it, and Wolfe is one of my favorites. If you'd like more from him, I enjoyed this essay on writing multi-volume works collected by Gwern: https://gwern.net/doc/culture/2007-wolfe
Also I'd never read The City and The Stars but sounds fascinating, thanks for the rec!
OMG lol. thanks. i actually read all those books twice in my teens (ok, i gave up the first time)
Same! But recently went back for a re-read, they hold up! 😁