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The Rereading Wolfe Podcast | 重读沃尔夫播客
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A chapter-by-chapter spoiler intense deep dive into Gene Wolfe's "The Book of the New Sun" stewing in unhinged speculation. You cannot read a Gene Wolfe story. You can only re-read a Gene Wolfe story. http://patreon.com/rereadingwolfe
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Unknown Mecha @unknownmecha.bsky.social · 1d
Reading the entire Getter Robo Saga is like when I read Book of the New Sun. It made a lot of media in the same genre that came after appear lesser.
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A Sizable Hawk @wrux.bsky.social · 1d
Lavishly animated (all cel, no computer allowed) adaptation of Book of the New Sun. Employ every animator on Earth for a few years
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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 2d
lets say a wizard has cursed you with a lot of money. you are going to become permanently brain damaged simply by being in possession of so much money. the only way out of it is to spend a lot of money on something ridiculous and not at all useful

what would you buy to break the curse?
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The Rereading Wolfe Podcast | 重读沃尔夫播客 @rereadingwolfe.bsky.social · 7h
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Daniel Burke - 🍺INNKEEP @innkeep.bsky.social · 1d
A game where the lord of a planar nexus orders the construction of a great library to hold the written works of all worlds. It's Wilmots Warehouse meets the ancient library from Book of the New Sun. You gotta learn dozens of languages to decipher titles and create your own organization strategies.
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noiselad.bsky.social @noiselad.bsky.social · 21h
Book of the New Sun
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splendidland🌱 @splendid.land · 22h
also this is genuinely one of the coolest looking environments in any zelda game
landscape from Link: the faces of evil.
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winks @mpegocles.bsky.social · 14h
Gene Wolfe, The Book of the New Sun
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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 1d
You're telling me this guy was the scientist?
Frankenstein standing there like a big green dumbass
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The Rereading Wolfe Podcast | 重读沃尔夫播客 @rereadingwolfe.bsky.social · 7h
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The Rereading Wolfe Podcast | 重读沃尔夫播客 @rereadingwolfe.bsky.social · 7h
James H Schmitz's young heroine Telzey Amberdon, in the short story "Novice", communicates with her pet crest cat (not a catachrest or catachresis) named Tick-Tock (not Tick) www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3...
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The Rereading Wolfe Podcast | 重读沃尔夫播客 @rereadingwolfe.bsky.social · 19h
Oh geez. Now I have to hunt down the rest of these.
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The Rereading Wolfe Podcast | 重读沃尔夫播客 @rereadingwolfe.bsky.social · 19h
I think the totality of Thebes that he liked was Pindar. Wolfe seems to have dove deep into Pindar’s poetry. There’s some subtle hat-tipping in his later novel The Book of the Long Sun.
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The Rereading Wolfe Podcast | 重读沃尔夫播客 @rereadingwolfe.bsky.social · 20h
Wolfe is not kind to the Athenians, but at a panel I heard him state “The Spartans made the Nazis look like Boy Scouts.”
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The Rereading Wolfe Podcast | 重读沃尔夫播客 @rereadingwolfe.bsky.social · 21h
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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 21h
Italo Calvino sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/calvin... Anthony P Morris sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/morris... and Boualem Sansal sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/sansal... were born on this day, so here are some of their book covers (2&3 by Edward Mason, couldn't identify the other artists).
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The Rereading Wolfe Podcast | 重读沃尔夫播客 @rereadingwolfe.bsky.social · 1d
Gene Wolfe will never age because his writings were never contemporary.
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The Rereading Wolfe Podcast | 重读沃尔夫播客 @rereadingwolfe.bsky.social · 1d
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◤◢◤ tmhector, AIA ◢◤◢ @tmhector.bsky.social · 7d
Zardoz has the same vibes as the waiting room scene in Claw of the Conciliator
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 7d
John Boorman's Zardoz (1974)

Speaking to the magazine Films and Filming in 1974, Sean Connery said that "Zardoz" was "one of the best ideas [he'd] come across for ages" and claimed to have been "gripped" by lack of "spaceships and rockets" in a sci-fi movie.

Sean is team big-flying-stone-head☝️
Zardoz
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The Rereading Wolfe Podcast | 重读沃尔夫播客 @rereadingwolfe.bsky.social · 1d
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Marathon State Fan @therealjoro.bsky.social · 2d
Me reading Gene Wolfe and trying to figure out if a character has actually appeared before or if the narrator is just acting as if we should know them
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Jeff Braun @jeffbbraun.bsky.social · 2d
If a character hasn’t appeared for 30 pages, there should be a footnote reminding everyone who they are so I don’t have to flip back and try to figure it out.

I’m dumb and that would be helpful.
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payne588 @payne588.bsky.social · 2d
"All novels are fantasies. Some are more honest about it"
--Gene Wolfe
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Hyperlexic @hyperlexic.bsky.social · 2d
Not really unhinged but: Gene Wolfe should be studied in the same courses as Thomas Pynchon
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Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
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The Rereading Wolfe Podcast | 重读沃尔夫播客 @rereadingwolfe.bsky.social · 1d
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The Rereading Wolfe Podcast | 重读沃尔夫播客 @rereadingwolfe.bsky.social · 2d
I still think about it.
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The Rereading Wolfe Podcast | 重读沃尔夫播客 @rereadingwolfe.bsky.social · 2d
In Latro of the Mist, with all the Greek names, this can be an issue in the same chapter.
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Richard Miller @richardmiller.bsky.social · 3d
Freshly delivered from Libby and I am EXCITED. Haven’t read this since junior high school, can’t wait to see how it stacks up against romanticized memories.
Gene Wolfe - Shadow and Claw
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ct @cteeze-nuts.bsky.social · 3d
I'd do one of these with the Gene Wolfe quote from Shadow of the Torturer, but it's too long
Quoted text: “We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges. When soldiers take their oath they are given a coin, an asimi stamped with the profile of the Autarch. Their acceptance of that coin is their acceptance of the special duties and burdens of military life—they are soldiers from that moment, though they may know nothing of the management of arms. I did not know that then, but it is a profound mistake to believe that we must know of such things to be influenced by them, and in fact to believe so is to believe in the most debased and superstitious kind of magic. The would-be sorcerer alone has faith in the efficacy of pure knowledge; rational people know that things act of themselves or not at all.”
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The Rereading Wolfe Podcast | 重读沃尔夫播客 @rereadingwolfe.bsky.social · 3d
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Pal (she/they) @48oniram.bsky.social · 3d
might fuck around and finally read gene wolfe. reading more le guin and butler this year so...might as well go for him too. another in the list of people i've been meaning to get to for a while. the first New Sun book is actually pretty short so that's a plus.
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