New Sun
 |
Explore a culture built upon the ruins of countless civilizations stretching back for countless millennia. Embrace a society where time travel is an everyday occurrence - but time is no longer measured.
Negotiate a world in which the mundane¸ the advanced¸ and the paranormal commingle freely - a place where the officer classes fight duels to the death using extraterrestrial flowers.
Envision a juncture in time where two potential futures hang in the balance: one a Golden Age of rebirth¸ the other an icy grave of permanent winter.
GURPS New Sun explores the world of the Book of the New Sun¸ the award-winning masterpiece of science fiction by Gene Wolfe.
GURPS New Sun chronicles the Age of the Autarch¸ a time past time¸ foreign and majestic. Its world of Urth reveals delicate beauty and savage brutality in a cynosure of technology and magery. Swords and lasers co-exist with clones and concubines¸ cowboys and Indians¸ knights and ladies¸ mechanical men and sailing starships.
GURPS New Sun also details the story of Severian¸ a common journeyman in the Torturers' Guild who rises to become the central figure in the Age of the Autarch - and in all of time itself.
Through it all¸ the reader will become familiar with the exotic language and patterns of thought that made theBook of the New Sun the landmark of science fiction that it is.