# Book of the New Sun QUESTIONS *The SF-Lovers list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 08 Nov 1987* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Ron Warren Evans *08 Nov 1987, 00:32* A couple of years ago I read on article on this group re: Gene Wolfe's BOOK OF THE NEW SUN. The author had carefully scrutinised the tetralogy and had laid bare a number of Wolfe's literary games for our edification and enjoyment. He asked, for example, if we could trace Severian's family tree, could determine the connection between the coin Severian hides and the one Dr. Talos gives him at the end of THE CITADEL OF THE AUTARCH, could discover Wolfe's many allusions to Borges. I am wondering if anyone has this article and can send it to me, or, barring that, whether anyone can remember those questions or, even better, come up with a few of their own. Answers are cool too! B^) Hypotheses are welcomed as well, especially those about the questions I mentioned above. I look forward to hearing from y'all, and hope this starts a new dialogue. THE BOOK OF THE NEW SUN is rich, complex, beautiful, and puzzling, and it deserves to be discussed. Ron Warren Evans evansr at SUNED.ZOO.CS.YALE.EDU.UUCP evaronw at YALEVM.BITNET ---