Gene Wolfe, Severian, and Latro

Chuq Von Rospach · 28 Nov 1988, 23:39 · from sf-lovers.1988.mbox

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From: chuq%plaid at sun.com (Chuq Von Rospach)
Subject: Re: Gene Wolfe, Severian, and Latro
Date: 28 Nov 88 23:39:32 GMT
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>Has there been in the last few months or will there be in the near future
>anything published by Gene Wolfe, particularly followups to _Soldier of
>the Mist_ and _The Urth of the New Sun_?

No. His latest is "There are Doors" (Tor hardcover), which is unrelated to
anything else (except, from what I can tell having just started it, Free
Live Free in spirit...). Based on what he told me a while back, his next
book will be the follow-up to Soldier of the Mist (title unfortunately
forgotten....) probably about mid-year. There are going to be more
followups of both series, but I don't know the details.

>Also, does anyone share my suspicion that Latro (from SofM) and Severian
>(_The Book of the New Sun_ and TUofNS) are the same person?  I don't have
>any hard evidence for this, but the ending of TUofNS leaves this
>possibility open

While we didn't discuss this point directly, from my discussions with Wolfe
I don't see this as being true. He views them as separate series, not
Asimovesque independent series wedged together into an artificial
similarity.

Chuq Von Rospach

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