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The Reader as Augur: Beginnings and Endings in Gene Wolfe’s The Book of the Long Sun

Posted by Jonathan • Sep 5th, 2000 • Category: Articles, Book of the Long Sun, Gene Wolfe

By Nick Gevers
Gene Wolfe’s The Book of the Long Sun (1993-6) is a deeply complex expression of momentum: the momentum of faith, of history, of escape, of understanding. Science Fiction is replete with texts that involve such accelerations of vision and concept; but Wolfe, with his penetrating and parodic understanding of the conventions and [...]


Five Steps towards Briah: Gene Wolfe’s The Book of the Long Sun

Posted by Jonathan • Aug 28th, 2000 • Category: Articles, Book of the Long Sun, Gene Wolfe

By Nick Gevers
The title is a multiplex pun, so typical of Gene Wolfe. The Book of the Long Sun (1993-6) can only closely follow, or mirror The Book of the New Sun (1980-3). And just as Severian, the narrator of the first Book, is the New Son of God, a man [...]