# Wolfe's BOOK OF THE NEW SUN *The SF-Lovers list — 3 messages, 3 voices, 13 Aug 1992* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### PAUL WINALSKI AT METOO c/o *undated* RE: question about third book in the "Torturer" series Gene Wolfe's BOOK OF THE NEW SUN is a tetralogy, not a trilogy. The four books are: The Shadow of the Torturer The Claw of the Conciliator The Sword of the Lictor The Citadel of the Autarch THE SWORD OF THE LICTOR is currently available in hard cover only. The first two books are available both in hard cover and in paperback. Book four is supposed to be out in January. I won't risk a spoiler by discussing plot details of tSotL. Suffice it to say that the literary quality is up to the high standards set by the first two volumes, and there are plenty of loose ends to be tied up in book four. --PSW [THE SWORD OF THE LICTOR is available in a Timescape paperback. THE CITADEL OF THE AUTARCH is only in hardback at the moment, with a paperback to come in early 1983. --Stuart] --- ### David Ben_Ami *13 Aug 1992, 17:57 · follows PAUL WINALSKI AT METOO c/o* Another question about the first book. Is Valeria the girl he meets in the beginning of the book mentioned laterr? I was sure that he'll meet her again (actually I expected he will fall in love with her and not with Dorcas - but that's too much I guess :-)). I seem to remember her name mentioned near the end of the first book but I don't know where. David Ben-Ami s2780369 at Techst02.Technion.Ac.Il davidba at Carmel.Technion.Ac.Il davidba at Moav.Techniona.Ac.Il --- ### Michael Qvortrup *14 Aug 1992, 07:52 · follows David Ben_Ami* davidba at carmel.technion.ac.il (David Ben_Ami) writes: > Another question about the first book. Is Valeria the girl he meets in > the beginning of the book mentioned laterr? You mean the one in the atrium with all the clocks (sunclocks?) when he is looking for Triskele? It was indeed my impression that they are the same person (but then again that assumption is not that uncommon in the books :-) Michael Christian Heide Qvortrup Inst. of Scientific Computation ETH, Zuerich Switzerland qvortrup at inf.ethz.ch ---