Just a heads-up I thought I would share with the fans of Gene Wolfe on the Planet. I know from past conversations there are a few of you fellow literary masochists out there.
Years ago, Michael Andrussi wrote the
Lexicon Urthus, which was a dictionary/essay collection for many of the wonderful and extremely obscure words and ideas that populate his Urth cycle aka
The Book of the New Sun. The
Lexicon has been out of print since about 2002, and usually goes for around $150-$200 due to it's scarcity.
However, Andrussi has finished the Second Edition (just got the email today) which will be released on August 1st by Sirius Publishing. It's a print-on-demand book $20 Paperback and $40 Hardback.
http://www.siriusfiction.com/lexicon.html
Also, for those who are serious about teasing out the "hidden" parts of Wolfe's
Magnum Opus, I'd also suggest the following books:
Solar Labyrinth and
The Long and Short of it, collections of essays by Robert Borski.
Shadows of the New Sun by Peter Wright, another collection of essays by Wolfe and Wright.
The Castle of the Otter by Gene Wolfe, essays on the New Sun and writing in general.
Attending Daedalus: Gene Wolfe, Artifice and the Reader by Peter Wright.