I just finished the first two of the four books in the series, Shadow of the Torturer and Claw of Concilliator. They are extremely good sci-fi books. Wolfe drops you right into the middle of a very alien setting in the far, far future. He explains very little outright and a good deal of the backstory and setting has to be picked up as you go along which can make the early reading difficult but in the end makes for a very interesting read as you figure out what exactly is going on and the setting begins to make more sense and become less alien. It is very distopian so far and extremely well written.