Lexicon Urthus, Second Edition Andre-Driussi MichaelPaperback

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. This second edition, available for the first time in paperback, includes 300 new entries. The first edition was nominated for a World Fantasy Award.

Wolfe, in Locus, said: "A convenient and well researched glossary of names and terms. . . . 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. 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."