The Sword of the Lictor

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From: DYER at NBS-10
Subject: The Sword of the Lictor
Date: 8 Jan 1982 (Friday) 1657-EST
Message-ID: <sflovers-v5-7-2 at digest.sf-lovers>
X-Digest-Issue: SF-LOVERS Digest V5 #7
X-Urthmirror-Source: https://archive.org/details/sf-lovers-digest-vol-05

The third volume of Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun, THE
SWORD OF THE LICTOR, is out in Timescape hardback.  Do not walk, but
run or teleport to your local bookstore and purchase a copy.  (We want
to encourage writers like Wolfe, right?)

        I won't attempt to review the book until I've finished it, but
the hundred or so pages I read so far have been excellent.
(Incidentally, it might be a good idea to skip reading the synopsis of
the book printed on the jacket -- it creeps too far in the direction
of spoilerhood, perhaps...)


                                -Landon-

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