It is cool to see more people discovering Book of the New Sun (#BotNS)-- one of my favorite series of books ever -- and making art about it. I just had reason to search for images related to the books and saw so much "new" stuff since I last looked at art based on the story. Here's one of the older ones -- some jacket art from one of the paperback editions.

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I'm going through a list of speculative science fiction books from Ada Palmer's intro to The Book of the New Sun, and putting my thougts on each book in this gemini capsule: gemini://yuturna.com/~bori

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dyad - something that consists of two elements or parts

#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Gene Wolfe's The Citadel of the Autiarch. A strange entity asks if the Autarch was a man, half a mother and father.

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jezail - a simple and often hand made rifle used in South Asia and parts of the Middle East during the 19th century

#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Gene Wolfe's The Citadel of the Autarch. Severian meets a group, strangely dressed soldiers with large eyes and hollow cheeks, carrying rifles taller than them.

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declivity - a downward slope

#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Gene Wolfe's The Citadel of the Autarch. Severian struggles to reach a mysterious house perched atop a cliff.

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culverin - a kind of handgun of the 15th and 16th centuries. Also, a cannon with a long barrel in the 16th and 17th centuries

#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Gene Wolfe's The Citadel of the Autarch. Severian descends into a canyon, where the rushing water drowns out the sounds of warfare above.

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aes - any of various early forms of bronze or copper money used in Ancient Rome

#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Gene Wolfe's The Citadel of the Autarch. The Pelerine slave Winnoc tells of how he sold himself to the Order, bringing his payment to his mother before departing on their ship.

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pharmacon - a medicine

#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Gene Wolfe's The Citadel of the Autarch. Severian meets a man at the front wearing a phial around his throat.

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orphicleide - a family of conical-bore keyed brass instruments invented in early 19th-century France, it's name meaning "keyed serpent" in Greek

#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Gene Wolfe's The Citadel of the Autarch. Severian hears a deep, long note as heavy cavalry approaches.

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graisle - a kind of horn used in battle

#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Gene Wolfe's The Citadel of the Autarch. Severian leaves a battle and sees a fallen ally lying next to his destrier, flag and horn.

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