| Description: | Lexicon Urthus Is An Alphabetical Dictionary For The Complete Urth Cycle By Gene Wolfe: The Shadow Of The Torturer; The Claw Of The Conciliator; The Sword Of The Lictor; The Citadel Of The Autarch; The Sequel Urth Of The New Sun; The Novella Empires Of Foliage And Flower; The Short Stories The Cat, The Map, And The Old Woman Whose Rolling Pin Is The Sun; And Gene Wolfe's Own Commentaries In The Castle Of The Otter The First Edition Was Nominated For A World Fantasy Award This Second Edition Includes Over 1,200 Entries When The First Edition Was Published, Science Fiction Age Said: Lexicon Urthus Makes A Perfect Gift For Any Fan Of Wolfe's] Work, And From The Way His Words Sell, It Appears That There Are Many Deserving Readers Out There Waiting Gary K Wolfe, In Locus, Said: A Convenient And Well Researched Glossary Of Names And Terms It Provides Enough Of A Gloss On The Novels That It Almost Evokes Wolfe's Distant Future All By Itself It Can Provide Both A Useful Reference And A Good Deal Of Fun Donald Keller Said, In The New York Review Of Science Fiction: A Fruitful Product Of Obsession, This Is A Thorough Dictionary Of The Urth Cycle Andre-Driussi's Research Has Been Exhaustive, And He Has Discovered Many Fascinating Things It Is] Head-Spinning To Confront A Myriad Of Small And Large Details, Some Merely Interesting, Others Jawdropping |
