New Sun Series
Each of the four original volumes won at least one major fantasy or science fiction award as the year's "Best Novel" (see table). The tetralogy was not considered as a whole for any of the annual literary awards compiled by the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB).
The tetralogy was published in the U.K. by Sidgwick & Jackson (1981 to 1983). For the first volume, that was twelve months after its U.S. release, for the second volume seven months, for the latter two volumes only two months later. The Urth of the New Sun "coda" novel appeared three months earlier in the U.K. (Gollancz, August 1987) and the component volumes of subsequent series in the Solar Cycle, Long Sun and Short Sun, were published essentially at once in the U.S. and U.K.
| Title (volume or novel) | Award wins | losing finalist or high rank (#=rank) |
|---|---|---|
| The Shadow of the Torturer (Simon & Schuster, 1980) |
British Science Fiction World Fantasy |
Balrog (fantasy), Campbell Memorial (3), Locus Fantasy (2), Nebula |
| The Claw of the Conciliator (Timescape Books, 1981) |
Locus Fantasy Nebula (SF) |
Hugo (SF), Mythopoeic Fantasy, World Fantasy |
| The Sword of the Lictor (Timescape Books, 1982) |
British Fantasy Locus Fantasy |
Balrog, British SF, Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy |
| The Citadel of the Autarch (Timescape Books, 1983) |
Campbell Memorial (SF) | Balrog, British SF, Locus Fantasy (2), Nebula |
| The Urth of the New Sun (Tor Books, 1987) |
Hugo, Locus Science Fiction (3), Nebula | |
Since the original four-volume novel, Wolfe has also written three short fictions and two book series that are set in Severian's universe (almost all subsequent to Urth). The Internet Speculative Fiction Database catalogues it all as the "Solar Cycle" (below) comprising the short works and three sub-series.
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