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Format: Kindle Book Label: Sirius Fiction Manufacturer: Sirius Fiction Publication Date: August 26, 2008 Publisher: Sirius Fiction Studio: Sirius Fiction Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: This is the Kindle version of the new second edition of Lexicon Urthus, a dictionary of 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, Urth of the New Sun, and related works). It includes all 1200 entries in the print edition as well as all illustrations. The tables are rendered as images so may not be as readable as they are in the print version, but of course the Kindle version has other benefits. Please note that there are no internal links and the formatting does not match the print edition. Average Rating:
 Rating: - A must-have for Wolfe fansAs a proud owner of the first edition of this work (now out of print), I want to make clear that this is a much-expanded second edition (440 pages vs. the original 304) and all the richer for it. Having read Wolfe's Urth Cycle (as Driussi himself names it) several times, I read this book much like an encyclopedia, with one reference pinging me off to the next and so on. With a full list of characters (named and unnamed), etymological explanations for many terms in the text, as well as ... Read More Rating:  - Charming and informative though not entirely dependableLEXICON URTHUS is a dictionary prepared by Michael Andre-Driussi of the unusual words and names used by Gene Wolfe in his four-volume masterpiece The Book of the New Sun (and its coda THE URTH OF THE NEW SUN). Originally published in 1994, it swiftly went out of print and used copies went for high prices. The publication of its second edition is to be heralded. Those who have read Wolfe's work know that he usually allows many of his archaic terms to be defined for the reader through context, ... Read More Rating: - An important key to following "Book of the New Sun"The first edition of this book sold out before I could get a copy (before I even heard of its existence), but I was lucky enough to borrow a copy from a friend to accompany my first re-read of "New Sun." It added hugely to my enjoyment and my understanding, and it was with great reluctance I returned it to the owner. I am immensely pleased to see this new edition, and look forward to another pass through "New Sun" with its accompaniment. Rating: - A labor of love; a gift to Wolfe's readersGene Wolfe's prose is black-whole dense, his mythology is ocean deep, and his tales are as complex as the convolutions on your brain. Wolfe elevates the sensations of wonder, mystery, and discovery that we associate with science fiction into the realms of aesthetic and religious awe. He reaches back in time to take hold of the the thread of earliest human myth, traces this thread through the weave of history and literature, draws it forward into the unimaginable future, and then he ties the two ends together ... Read More Rating: - not only for fans!great fun for world lovers, too, and an excellent introduction to the depth of wolfe's work. 
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