REQUEST: Gene Wolfe recommendation

Loren Miller · 15 Jan 1993, 23:06 · from sf-lovers.1993.mbox

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From: loren at wmkt.wharton.upenn.edu (Loren Miller)
Subject: Re: RE: REQUEST: Gene Wolfe recommendation
Date: 15 Jan 93 23:06:29 GMT
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sclera at milori.ccit.arizona.edu writes:
>Ah, a real topic.  It has been a while, but I think the name is "The
>Torturer's Apprentice," which starts the Urth of the New Sun series.
>These are books which will get those endolphins :) flowing.  They remind
>me of a latter-day Iliad.

Erm, that's _Shadow of a Torturer_, and it starts off the Book of the New
Sun, but besides those little problems which might make it pretty hard to
find the books you're right. It's a great book, and the main reason most
people who like Wolfe do so. The rest of them are great too. In fact,
they're the reason I joined the SFBC the last time I joined it, so I could
get the whole set.

His other series is the Soldier one, _Soldier in the Mists_, and _Soldier
of Arete_, which ends with a cliffhanger and unfortunately has not been
continued.

His short story writing is impressive and literary, and IMO boring, but his
adventure novels also tell wide-ranging stories and really get the reader's
(at least this reader's) blood flowing.

Loren Miller

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