The story, at least in the first novel, follows a pretty simple thread encompassing Severian the Torturer, the incident that gets him exiled from his guild, and the adventures he goes on after the fact. Maybe I’d enjoy this slightly more straightforward Wolfe that gets talked about in the same breath as Tolkien? I’d heard good things about The Book of the New Sun and a chance encounter at the library sealed it. It was, like most of the other stories in that collection, totally bizarre even for my tastes, and I wasn’t sure what to make of it or him. My only other experience of Gene Wolfe so far has been his story in Again, Dangerous Visions called Mathoms From the Time Closet. I read Shadow of the Torturer, and it’s the Dark Souls of Science Fantasy novels. me talking nonsense about what I read recently) are finally gonna pay off. My efforts to introduce game criticism tropes into literary criticism (i.e. I’m gonna do it, I’m gonna go right ahead.
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