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Gene Wolfe often has a way of overtly glorifying things like execution of the condemned (TBotNS) and knightly chivalry while at the same time utterly condemning them. Real problems are complex, and so are Gene Wolfe books, but the best ones are easy to read despite this.
Like. “Imagine a man who stands before a mirror; a stone strikes it, and it falls to ruin all in an instant. And the man learns that he is himself, and not the mirrored man he had believed himself to be.”. ― Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun. 40 likes. Like. “When a gift is deserved, it is not a gift but a payment.”.
Jan 1, 1998 · Gene Wolfe's style of writing really does seem to reflect the same sentiment that Hidetaka Miyazaki has shared about wanting to give their audience a sort of "fill in the blanks" experience. This is a book that professors have ran entire classes on, and it has books ABOUT it (see Lexicon Urthus, and GURPS New Sun which does a great job of ...
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Apr 16, 2019 · Gene Wolfe, the author of such acclaimed books as The Fifth Head of Cerberus and The Book of the New Sun, died Sunday at age 87, “after his long battle with heart disease,” according to his ...
Nov 14, 2017 · — Ursula K. Le Guin The Book of the New Sun is unanimously acclaimed as Gene Wolfe’s most remarkable work, hailed as “a masterpiece of science fantasy comparable in importance to the major works of Tolkien and Lewis” by Publishers Weekly, and “one of the most ambitious works of speculative fiction in the twentieth century” by The ...
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Aug 28, 2002 · Volume One: Shadow and Claw Volume Two: Sword and Citadel (Millennium, 2000) Reviewed by Peter Wright. Long before its inclusion on Millennium’s SF Masterworks list, Gene Wolfe’s densely allusive four volume The Book of the New Sun (The Shadow of the Torturer (1980), The Claw of the Conciliator (1981), The Sword of the Lictor (1981) and The Citadel of the Autarch (1983)) was acclaimed as ...
Mar 1, 2009 · The Best of Gene Wolfe: Challenging, allusive, and tricky stories Originally posted at Fantasy Literature I decided to tackle this collection for a third time, this time armed with Marc Aramini’s Between Light and Shadow: An Exploration of the Fiction of Gene Wolfe, 1951 to 1986, an 826-page analysis covering Wolfe’s output through 1986, including most of his short stories (no matter how ...
