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Thinking about "V.R.T." and how much I liked the device of the officer rummaging through Marsch's personal effects. Are there any other books that tread in similar territory?
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I'm finding myself having a much easier time reading Citadel of the Autarch than with the two middle books. The people Severian talks with are less cryptic and inscrutable.
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Segue posted:Also the Ascians being uncomfortably awful stereotypes of communist states left a bad feeling. I'm pretty left wing, but the Ascians amused me a lot because the Maoist I've known pretty talks like them.
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Did Wolfe ever discuss The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester?
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Are there any Wolfe stories that relate to Korea or Korean culture, other than the mention of "Kim Lee-Soong" in Claw?
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Mar 12, 2022 18:37
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Other than Seven American Nights, what are his most memorable short stories that aren't halfway to novella length?
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Jul 21, 2022 21:09
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I was tremendously pleased by "How I Lost the Second World War and Helped Turn Back the German Invasion." It helps that it's cheerful. His novels that I've read left me with the feeling of a brick in my chest.
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Jul 21, 2022 23:15
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Goodreads reviewer posted:Gene Wolfe's reputation is overblown. I loved The Fifth Head of Cerberus and enjoyed the collection of short stories in The Death of Doctor Island. But his longer fantasy fiction always put me off, in the same sense that being invited to play Dungeons & Dragons with a pack of socially awkward teenagers might put one off. I threw Pirate Freedom across the room halfway through, when Wolfe abandoned the effort of storytelling and simply had his time-traveling priest/pirate sit on his rear end and explain - over the course of 20 or more pages - a complicated turn of events that was at the center of the story. Wolfe is a charlatan; I'll read no more of him.
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Feb 13, 2023 18:08
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ReReading Wolfe's twitter page is so weird.
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Mar 13, 2023 00:52
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Finished Tracking Song. Three notes 1) While being its own thing, it does feel a lot like a creative prototype of TBOTNS. 2) I liked it because it felt more tender and humane and hopeful than what I've read before, which were dominated by senses of decline and people meeting ugly, lonely fates. 3) I kept noticing what seemed to be possible allusions to animal-people coming back from the dead?
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Dec 29, 2023 12:42
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I knew from the start how important Borges was to Wolfe, but I didn't know that his final story concerns the process of absorbing the memories of and thereby becoming another person.
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Mar 3, 2024 11:01
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I liked The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories, a nice way to start his "best of" collection. Great expression of the role fiction and fantasy play in a child's life.
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Apr 1, 2024 14:07
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"Hour of Trust"'s vision of a second American civil war is especially chilling today, as its vision of high definition war broadcasts has come true.
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Apr 10, 2024 07:33
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Hardly any discussion I can find of The Hero as Werwolf notes that it may be a play on Wells' Eloi and Morlocks.
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Apr 22, 2024 02:49
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I should probably read that and The Day of the Triffids.
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Seven American Nights' description of American foods as exotic foreign dishes are to die for.quote:I had the Number One Dinner—buff-colored fish soup with the pasty American bread on the side, followed by a sandwich of ground meat and raw vegetables doused with a tomato sauce and served on a soft, oily roll. To tell thetruth, I did not much enjoy the meal, but it seems a sort of duty to sample more of the American food than I have thus far.
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