The Urth of the New Sun
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This is the coda novel of the series, 'Book of the New Sun'.
It is mostly SciFi content but skinned in the fantasy world of the protagonist Severian. In this final book he is doing crazy time jumps back into events set through the first four books, and some of the strange elements of the original story start to find explanation. The whole thing demands concentration as it's easy for important things so slip by. On the other hand, I was sometimes scratching my head to remember the characters that appear in the final book from their original settings. And when I did remember them I realised that much of the story is hidden by Wolfe's technique of hinting at things as if he wants to have the last laugh, "Ha! I knew you would not get that bit." He's an evil genius author.
This is the coda novel of the series, 'Book of the New Sun'.
It is mostly SciFi content but skinned in the fantasy world of the protagonist Severian. In this final book he is doing crazy time jumps back into events set through the first four books, and some of the strange elements of the original story start to find explanation. The whole thing demands concentration as it's easy for important things so slip by. On the other hand, I was sometimes scratching my head to remember the characters that appear in the final book from their original settings. And when I did remember them I realised that much of the story is hidden by Wolfe's technique of hinting at things as if he wants to have the last laugh, "Ha! I knew you would not get that bit." He's an evil genius author.
My original review for this just said "Too tidy!! Why??" One thing I loved about BOTNS was the way you really just get tossed into this world with little explanation and have the opportunity to put things together for yourself. Urth ties things up a little too neatly for me; I enjoyed the ragged edges.
My original review for this just said "Too tidy!! Why??" One thing I loved about BOTNS was the way you really just get tossed into this world with little explanation and have the opportunity to put things together for yourself. Urth ties things up a little too neatly for me; I enjoyed the ragged edges.
This is the coda novel of the series, 'Book of the New Sun'.
It is mostly SciFi content but skinned in the fantasy world of the protagonist Severian. In this final book he is doing crazy time jumps back into events set through the first four books, and some of the strange elements of the original story start to find explanation. The whole thing demands concentration as it's easy for important things so slip by. On the other hand, I was sometimes scratching my head to remember the characters that appear in the final book from their original settings. And when I did remember them I realised that much of the story is hidden by Wolfe's technique of hinting at things as if he wants to have the last laugh, "Ha! I knew you would not get that bit." He's an evil genius author.
This is the coda novel of the series, 'Book of the New Sun'.
It is mostly SciFi content but skinned in the fantasy world of the protagonist Severian. In this final book he is doing crazy time jumps back into events set through the first four books, and some of the strange elements of the original story start to find explanation. The whole thing demands concentration as it's easy for important things so slip by. On the other hand, I was sometimes scratching my head to remember the characters that appear in the final book from their original settings. And when I did remember them I realised that much of the story is hidden by Wolfe's technique of hinting at things as if he wants to have the last laugh, "Ha! I knew you would not get that bit." He's an evil genius author.
This is the coda novel of the series, 'Book of the New Sun'.
It is mostly SciFi content but skinned in the fantasy world of the protagonist Severian. In this final book he is doing crazy time jumps back into events set through the first four books, and some of the strange elements of the original story start to find explanation. The whole thing demands concentration as it's easy for important things so slip by. On the other hand, I was sometimes scratching my head to remember the characters that appear in the final book from their original settings. And when I did remember them I realised that much of the story is hidden by Wolfe's technique of hinting at things as if he wants to have the last laugh, "Ha! I knew you would not get that bit." He's an evil genius author.
This is the coda novel of the series, 'Book of the New Sun'.
It is mostly SciFi content but skinned in the fantasy world of the protagonist Severian. In this final book he is doing crazy time jumps back into events set through the first four books, and some of the strange elements of the original story start to find explanation. The whole thing demands concentration as it's easy for important things so slip by. On the other hand, I was sometimes scratching my head to remember the characters that appear in the final book from their original settings. And when I did remember them I realised that much of the story is hidden by Wolfe's technique of hinting at things as if he wants to have the last laugh, "Ha! I knew you would not get that bit." He's an evil genius author.
My original review for this just said "Too tidy!! Why??" One thing I loved about BOTNS was the way you really just get tossed into this world with little explanation and have the opportunity to put things together for yourself. Urth ties things up a little too neatly for me; I enjoyed the ragged edges.
My original review for this just said "Too tidy!! Why??" One thing I loved about BOTNS was the way you really just get tossed into this world with little explanation and have the opportunity to put things together for yourself. Urth ties things up a little too neatly for me; I enjoyed the ragged edges.
