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.
The first edition was nominated for a World Fantasy Award.
This second edition, available for the first time in paperback, includes 300 new entries.
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.
Wolfe, in Locus, said: A convenient and well researched glossary of names and terms.
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.
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| Age said | Lexicon |
| Locus, said | A convenient and well researched glossary of names and terms |
| Fiction | A fruitful product of obsession this is a thorough dictionary of the |
Sirius Fiction Lexicon urthus, second edition, paperback/michael andre-driussi
