The first volume of The Book of the New Sun. The Earth is old and the sun is dying. In the great Citadel of the City Imperishable, Severian - apprentice to the torturer's guild - betrays his oath. Exiled, he begins his phantasmagoric odyssey through the perilous world of the deep, distant future.
- ISBN10 0099263203
- ISBN13 9780099263203
- Publish Date 21 September 1981 (first published 1 May 1981)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 2 March 2010
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
- Imprint Legend paperbacks
- Edition New edition
- Format Hardcover (A-Format (178x111 mm))
- Pages 304
- Language English