
The Book of the New Sun
Gene Wolfe · 1980
Wolfe's tetralogy is set in a dying-sun future so far forward it looks like fantasy. Severian the torturer narrates unreliably through a language drawn from obscure Greek and Latin. It is the most demanding and rewarding SF/Fantasy hybrid ever written.
Science Fiction & Fantasy · the Pro canon
The case for it, the case against, and the rest of the canon open with Pro.