In a novel by this author, a wounded POW attempts to win the hand of a woman in a storytelling contest using only quotes from propaganda called Correct Thought. One of this author’s narrators witnesses a conversation from the distant past in a botanical garden (15[1])where he gathers a poisonous avern plant to contest a duel. A cloned boy wonders about shape-shifting (15[1])aborigines on the twin worlds of Sainte Anne and Sainte Croix in this author’s novella The Fifth Head of Cerberus. This writer, whom (*) Ursula K. Le Guin called “our Melville,” (10[1])wrote a trilogy about the amnesiac Achaemenid soldier Latro. Ascia wars with the Commonwealth in a decayed version of the Americas in a series by this author that begins with the Torturer’s Guild exiling the journeyman Severian. For 10 points, what author wrote the science fantasy series The Book of the New Sun? (10[1])■END■ (10[3]0[5])