The tetralogy chronicles the journey of Severian, a journeyman torturer who is disgraced and forced to wander. Despite being published with a year between each book, all four books were written and completed during his free time without anyone's knowledge when he was still an editor of Plant Engineering, allowing him to write at his own pace and take his time.
Gene Wolfe had originally intended the story to be a 40,000-word novella called "The Feast of Saint Catherine", meant to be published in one of the Orbit anthologies, but during the writing, it continued to grow. It inaugurated the "Solar Cycle" that Wolfe continued by setting other works in the same universe ( The Urth of the New Sun, The Book of the Long Sun series, and The Book of the Short Sun series). The Book of the New Sun (1980–1983) is a four-volume science fantasy novel written by the American author Gene Wolfe.
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