Torturer, Gene Wolfe, Sequels

Clay M Bond · 04 Jan 1989, 11:41 · from sf-lovers.1989.mbox

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From: bondc at iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Clay M Bond)
Subject: Torturer, Gene Wolfe, Sequels
Date: 4 Jan 89 11:41:25 GMT
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I have just recently discovered _The Shadow of the Torturer_ by Gene Wolfe,
and am quite frankly dazed; seldom do I encounter prose so well-written
that I reread sections not for the content, but to reexperience the
writing.  It's sophisticated stuff.

Has anyone else encountered, and read, these?  The only others I have been
able to find have been _Claw of the Conciliator_ and _Urth of the New Sun_,
and I have read neither.  Should I put _Shadow_ down after reading it, and
not read the sequels, or are they as well-written as the first?

Clay Bond
Indiana University Department Linguistics

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