Wolfe Gene, Arrow Books Limited, 1981
The first volume of a masterpiece - Usula K. Le GuinThe Earth is old and the sun is dying. In the great Citadel of the City Imperishable, Severian, apprentice of the torturers' guild, betrays his oath. Exiled, Severian begins his phantasmagoric odyssey through the dark and perilous world of the deep, distant future.A spectacular achievement - The TimesTotally original, new, incomparable: the beginning of something great - Ursula K. Le GuinCover illustration: Bruce Pennington