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  1. "To those who have preceded me in the study of the posthistoric world, and.. permitted me to examine artifacts surviving so many centuries of futurity, and most especially to those who have allowed me to visit and photograph the era’s few extant buildings, I am truly grateful." #GeneWolfe

  2. Dedicated #GeneWolfe rereaders will often skip Dr. Talos's play in /Claw of the Conciliator/. Well, some people actually recorded it as an audio-only play. They did a good job. It's more entertaining than in the book. Feels less confusing.

    Direct download: rangedtouch.com/2023/08/25/dr-
    Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/

  3. I've been listening to the Alzabo Soup #genewolfe podcast, and it's been such a fun experience starting on Return to the Whorl just as the guys start on Nightside. I'm basically recapping Long Sun while finishing Short Sun.

  4. Last Thursday I finished "Soldier of the Mist" by #GeneWolfe
    So Severian, Horn and Latro all met some siren-like sea creatures at some point. Now, I wonder: what was Gene Wolfe's favourite Disney movie?

  5. It's been some time since I read Long Sun, so I don't know at what point I read this, and I don't know if I'm remembering corrrectly, so possible spoiler:

    Is the Outsider revealed to be Allah?

    #bookofthelongsun #genewolfe

  6. @artikid @LeviKornelsen
    If I remember right, in the Anomalous Subsurface Environment setting, cleric spells are granted specifically by the "orbital gods", though I can't remember for sure it it is clearly defined that they are AI satellites or something else.

    Also c.f. Litany of the Long Sun, where most (though definitely not all) the gods are the uploaded personalities of folks who built the generation ship it is based in.

    #AnomalousSubsurfaceEnvironment #Dungeons #AIGods #GeneWolfe

  7. I've never heard a popular song that is more like a Gene Wolfe story. The lyrics sketch a frame, the negative space surrounding the unseen true narrative.

    Really the only thing it is missing is a shape-shifter.

    Probably.

    #GeneWolfe #BobbieGentry

    youtu.be/cJZ_ViDADOE

  8. Anyone interested in revisionist literary criticism? My most contentious opinion is that Gene Wolfe’s The Fifth Head of Cerberus is the key to interpreting his The Book of the New Sun.

    #GeneWolf #NewSun #Severian

  9. Anyone interested in revisionist literary criticism? My most contentious opinion is that Gene Wolfe’s The Fifth Head of Cerberus is the key to interpreting his The Book of the New Sun.

    #GeneWolf #NewSun #Severian

  10. Anyone interested in revisionist literary criticism? My most contentious opinion is that Gene Wolfe’s The Fifth Head of Cerberus is the key to interpreting his The Book of the New Sun.

    #GeneWolf #NewSun #Severian

  11. I've got my third and final (for now) part of an introduction to The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe up on Substack. I hope you'll check it out -

    scifimind.substack.com/p/scifi

    #scifi #genewolfe

  12. I was sick this week so I had plenty of time to read.

    Finished Book of the Long Sun and got to that masterpiece now :)

    It doesn't exist in french so I was a little worried but it's actually kinda easy to read. I wonder if I could have read BotNS in english xD

    Can't put it down.

    #book #GeneWolf

  13. Almost caught up with the Alzabo Soup podcast and the question arose as to what ta call the narrator of Short Sun. It's surely been suggested, but:

    Hilksorn.

    #genewolfe #solarcycle

  14. I love this quote from Book of the Short Sun:

    "Who can plumb the mind of the Outsider, and search out all his ways? Our treasures are his dross; our gods, his toys."

    It reads like a psalm to me. It's beautiful.

    #genewolfe #solarcycle

  15. Been very tired and unmotivated these last 2 weeks. Not sure why. Just the usual pressure at work.

    Trying to read Gene Wolfe's The Wizard Knight, but can't make much progress. It has his usual shtick of using extremely unreliable narrator, but the beginning left me completely cold. His earlier novels made me feel more engaged, and trying to tease out the missing puzzle pieces about the world. On Green's Jungles was kind of the same.

    #scifi #genewolfe

  16. We just returned our home in Peoria after a 3 week trip to NJ.

    Today we picked up our mail and discovered that it is not only a #BoxOfBooks day...it is a Box of-Box of-Box of Books Day. Three packages from Subterranean Press! @SubPress

    First box:
    The Dead Man and Other Horror Stories by #GeneWolfe.

  17. #SubterraneanPress is taking pre-orders for the newest #GeneWolfe collection entitled "The Dead Man and Other Horror Stories."

    It features several previously uncollected stories and a kick-ass cover by artist Thomas Kidd.

    i just pre-ordered my copy!
    #ScienceFiction #Horror #Fantasy
    subterraneanpress.com/tdmaohs/

  18. Despite his description, I could never shake the image of Silk as the monk wojak.

    #genewolfe #bookofthelongsun #solarcycle

  19. @davidallengreen interested in which #fantasy #authors you favour. I’m going to suggest #StevenBrust #JackVance #GeneWolfe #StephenDonaldson and see if you bite. Obviously #jrrt as well but that’s almost a special case.

  20. RE: bookstodon.com/@astralcomputin

    Born this day: 05/07/1931 (d. 04/14/2019)
    Gene Wolfe was one of the most acclaimed and complex writers in speculative fiction, best known for his magnum opus, "The Book of the New Sun". A master of the unreliable narrator and intricate prose, he won multiple Nebula, Locus, and BSFA awards.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Wol

    #Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers
    #GeneWolfe @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction

    astralcomputing.com

  21. RE: bookstodon.com/@astralcomputin

    Born this day: 05/07/1931 (d. 04/14/2019)
    Gene Wolfe was one of the most acclaimed and complex writers in speculative fiction, best known for his magnum opus, "The Book of the New Sun". A master of the unreliable narrator and intricate prose, he won multiple Nebula, Locus, and BSFA awards.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Wol

    #Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers
    #GeneWolfe @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction

    astralcomputing.com

  22. RE: bookstodon.com/@astralcomputin

    Born this day: 05/07/1931 (d. 04/14/2019)
    Gene Wolfe was one of the most acclaimed and complex writers in speculative fiction, best known for his magnum opus, "The Book of the New Sun". A master of the unreliable narrator and intricate prose, he won multiple Nebula, Locus, and BSFA awards.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Wol

    #Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers
    #GeneWolfe @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction

    astralcomputing.com