Typhon's Confidence (plus some other questions)

Darrell Burgan · 29 Jan 2014, 01:56 · from 2014-January.txt.gz

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From: darrell.burgan at gmail.com (Darrell Burgan)
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 19:56:49 -0600
Subject: (urth) Typhon's Confidence (plus some other questions)
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I find Typhon to be a fascinating character, but to be honest I feel he
does not get enough narrative attention. He's obviously a key figure in the
Short Sun series, but to me he seemed almost an afterthought in New Sun. I
would really welcome some additional literature from Wolfe exploring
Typhon's world.

On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 4:38 AM, Gerry Quinn <gerry at bindweed.com> wrote:

>
> I don't think Typhon is portrayed as quite a god here, but as a sort of
> powerful 'force of nature' - a super villain, you might say, who can be
> brought to heel only by the super-powered Severian.
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