The Sword of the Lictor by Gene Wolfe Orb 1982, reprinted 1994 The Sword of the Lictor is the third book in Gene Wolfe's quartet, The Book of the New Sun . It's the most episodic of the books so far, basically a picaresque, as Severian leaves the city of Thrax and journeys north through the mountains until he arrives at a very high lake nestled among them, meeting potential allies and enemies all…