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I just finished the short story "Of Relays and Roses" from "Gene Wolfe's Book of Days".
What was the point of that story? That it was a woman that was the active part? Tell me I missed something significant, and there was more to it than that!
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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.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Wolfe
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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.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Wolfe
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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.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Wolfe
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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 -
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Died this day: 04/14/2019 (b. 05/07/1931)
Gene Wolfe was an American SF author, one of the finest the genre ever produced. His masterwork, The Book of the New Sun, follows an exiled torturer across a dying far-future Earth. A SFWA Grand Master.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Wolfe
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Despite his description, I could never shake the image of Silk as the monk wojak.
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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.
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"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
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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.
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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: https://rangedtouch.com/2023/08/25/dr-taloss-play-eschatology-and-genesis/
Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dr-taloss-play-eschatology-and-genesis/id1691199979?i=1000625648337 -
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.
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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? -
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?
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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.
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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.
