Gene Wolfe: The Soldier series

Dan Tilque · 19 Aug 1992, 10:33 · from sf-lovers.1992.mbox

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From: dant at techbook.com (Dan Tilque)
Subject: Re: Gene Wolfe: The Soldier series
Date: 19 Aug 92 10:33:15 GMT
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>>2) I don't have the first book, and the second doesn't come with a map,
>>so can somebody help me with the modern names of the places? Rope is
>>Sparta, Thrace is well, Thrace. But Hill, Tower Hill, Sestos, Nestos,
>>Cowland...HELP!?!?
>
>The only one I remember is that Thought is Athens.  

If I remember correctly, Tower Hill is Corinth.  If not then Hill is.

>The first book doesn't have a map either.

But it has a glossary.  

>There may not be a third book.  Wolfe says he just plans to write them
>whenver he feels the interest.  They're going to be a kind of walking tour
>of ancient Greece.

When I found out that it was a tour, I lost interest in the story.  After
reading Soldier in the Mist, I thought it was a modern version of a Greek
tragedy.  The premise of the story certainly seems like that's what it
should be.  But Arete doesn't advance this aspect at all.  He just keeps
wandering around Greece.

Dan Tilque

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