---
id:
aliases:
  - urth of the new sun
title: The Urth of the New Sun
tags:
  - authorship/other
  - destiny/permanent
  - exclude-from-word-count
  - status/incomplete
  - topic/hobbies/reading
  - type/media/book
authors:
  - Gene Wolfe
series: The Book of the New Sun
type: book
year: 1987
---
# The Urth of the New Sun

## Dedication

## Epigraph

## I - The Mainmast

## II - The Fifth Sailor

## III - The Cabin

## IV - The Citizens of the Sails

## V - The Hero and the Hierodules

## VI - A Death and the Dark

## VII - A Death in the Light

## VIII - The Empty Sleeve

## IX - The Empty Air

## X - Interlude

## XI - Skirmish

## XII - The Semblance

## XIII - The Battles

## XIV - The End of the Universe

## XV - Yesod

## XVI - The Epitome

## XVII - The Isle

## XVIII - The Examination

## XIX - Silence

## XX - The Coiled Room

## XXI - Tzadkiel

## XXII - Descent

## XXIII - The Ship

## XXIV - The Captain

## XXV - Passion and the Passageway

## XXVI - Gunnie and Burgundofara

## XXVII - The Return to Urth

## XXVIII - The Village Beside the Stream

## XXIX - Among the Villagers

## XXX - Ceryx

## XXXI - Zama

## XXXII - To the Alcyone

## XXXIII - Aboard the Alcyone

## XXXIV - Saltus Again

## XXXV - Nessus Again

## XXXVI - The Citadel Again

## XXVII - The Book of the New Sun

## XXXVIII - To the Tomb of the Monarch

## XXXIX - The Claw of the Conciliator Again

## XL - The Brook Beyond Briah

## XLI - Severian from His Cenotaph

## XLII - Ding, Dong, Ding!

## XLIII - The Evening Tide

## XLIV - The Morning Tide

## XLV - The Boat

## XLVI - The Runaway

## XLVII - The Sunken City

## XLVIII - Old Lands and New

## XLIX - Apu-Punchau

## L - Darkness in the House of Day

## LI - The Urth of the New Sun

## Appendix - The Miracle of Apu-Punchau
