# Sun Series---A Newbish Question *The Urth list — 3 messages, 3 voices, 06 Jun 2003* > 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. --- ### Tyreal *06 Jun 2003, 13:43* Hi, Tyreal here. I was wandering if someone could put the all of the Sun Series books in order in which they were meant to be read. Please include the urth, the new, the long, the short, and any other Tyreal --- ### Sam Keyes *06 Jun 2003, 15:58 · follows Tyreal* Greetings. I hesitate to toss myself into public, but here goes. I can't really say in what order they're MEANT to be read, but they were, I think, published in this order, and this is the order in which I have and am reading them: The Book of the New Sun: Shadow and Claw (Shadow of the Torturer and Claw of the Conciliator) Sword and Citadel (Sword of the Lictor and Citadel of the Autarch) The Urth of the New Sun The Book of the Long Sun: Litany of the Long Sun (Nightside and Lake) Epiphany of the Long Sun (Cald=E9 and Exodus) The Book of the Short Sun: On Blue's Waters In Green's Jungles Return to the Whorl Forgive my ignorance if I have misplaced something or misunderstood. And, as a brief introduction to the list, I ought to say that I am an undergraduate currently doing a summer project (i.e., my school was kind (or stupid) enough to give me money) on Wolfe--particularly the New Sun.=20 So once I finish wallowing through the stuff I'm doing now, perhaps I'll have a question or two for you people. Sam > Hi, > > Tyreal here. I was wandering if someone could put the all of the Sun > Series books in order in which they were meant to be read. Please > include the urth, the new, the long, the short, and any other > > Tyreal > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. > > -- > unsubscribe: send "unsubscribe" to urth-request at urth.net --- ### William Ansley *06 Jun 2003, 17:21 · follows Sam Keyes* "Sam Keyes" wrote (in part): > I can't really say > in what order they're MEANT to be read, but they were, I think, published > in this order, and this is the order in which I have and am reading them: > > The Book of the New Sun: > Shadow and Claw (Shadow of the Torturer and Claw of the Conciliator) > Sword and Citadel (Sword of the Lictor and Citadel of the Autarch) > > The Urth of the New Sun > > The Book of the Long Sun: > Litany of the Long Sun (Nightside and Lake) > Epiphany of the Long Sun (Caldé and Exodus) > > The Book of the Short Sun: > On Blue's Waters > In Green's Jungles > Return to the Whorl Replying to Tyreal who wrote >> Tyreal here. I was wandering if someone could put the all of the Sun >> Series books in order in which they were meant to be read. Please >> include the urth, the new, the long, the short, and any other I am a strong proponent of reading books in the order they were published, no matter what the order of "internal chronology" is, so I agree with the reading list order given by Sam Keyes, above. Frankly, I am not sure the question, "In what order are Gene Wolfe Sun books meant to be read?" is answerable in that form. Here is a list of the titles of all the original novels in the Sun series (so far) with some extras: ~The Book of the New Sun~ _The Shadow of the Toturer_ _The Claw of the Conciliator_ _The Sword of the Lictor_ _The Citadel of the Autarch_ (_Shadow and Claw_ combines novels 1 & 2 above.) (_Sword and Citadel_ combines novels 3 & 4 above.) _The Urth of the New Sun_ ~The Book of the Long Sun~ _Nightside the Long Sun_ _Lake of the Long Sun_ _Calde of the Long Sun_ _Exodus from the Long Sun_ (_Litany of the Long Sun_ combines novels 1 & 2 above.) (_Epiphany of the Long Sun_ combines novels 3 & 4 above.) ~The Book of the Short Sun~ _On Blue's Oceans_ _In Green's Jungles_ _Return to the Whorl_ Related books: _Gene Wolfe's Book of Days_ (includes _The Castle of the Otter_, a collection of essays about the Book of the New Sun) Endangered Species (includes the stories, "The Cat" and "The Map," generally considered to be set in the same universe as the Sun books) Possibly related books: _The Fifth Head of Cerberus_ (said by some to be set in the same universe as the Sun books) _Storeys from the Old Hotel_ (includes the story, "A Solar Labyrinth," said by some to be a metafiction on the Book of the New Sun) William Ansley ---