Gene Wolfe and the Severian series

Dick Smith · 17 Feb 1991, 05:32 · from rec.arts.sf-lovers.1991.mbox

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From: dick at smith.UUCP (Dick Smith)
Subject: Re: Gene Wolfe and the Severian series
Date: 17 Feb 91 05:32:23 GMT
Message-ID: <250 at smith.UUCP>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf-lovers
References: <9102111613.AA11896 at rutgers.edu> <62671 at bbn.BBN.COM>

In article <62671 at bbn.BBN.COM> mthome at bbn.com (Mike Thome) writes:
>DMARKFIE at INDYMED.BITNET writes:
>>>On the subject of Gene Wolfe, are there any people out there who have read
>>>_The Shadow of the Torturer_ and the other books in the series?
>>I've got most of the whole story of Severian and IMHO I found it a very hard
>>read.
>Not at all an uncommon experience with GW's works - My personal
>feelings about his novels run the gamut from interested frustration
>through near-awe ...

I made a half-joking comment to Gene Wolfe sometime between the
publication of the 3rd and 4th books of this 4-logy, about being
impatient with Sevarian's progress... his reply:

	"Sevarian is a very slow walker."

Just in case you are wondering, I greatly enjoyed the _Book of the New
Sun_.  I'm less sure about some of Wolfe's later works, but that's for a 
different posting.

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