The Rereading Wolfe Podcast | 重读沃尔夫播客

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At a some points Book of the New Sun just turns into Severian livestreaming a tier list of girls he's fucked or thought a lot about fucking, including a not insignificant number of corpses

I like Edinburgh very much, as much as Torquay.

I know i keep posting about Book of the New Sun (i'm sorry, it's just that it rules so hard) but i think Elizabeth Dulau (Kleia from ANDOR) would make a killer Agia. Like, forget an adaptation, just make a show *about* Agia with Dulau, sit back, count the money.

Book of the New Sun update:

Just went through the four in two books series “The book of the new sun” by Gene Wolfe. Good medieval touched sci-fi.

Trying to understand Gene Wolfe’s THE BOOK OF THE NEW SUN is like trying to train a cat to sit on command. Mostly confusing and frustrating, but the times it accidentally happens are intensely satisfying.

Finished re-read of Book of the New Sun, and it is incredible how intensely Catholic it is. But like, Wolfe is on the real shit of recognizing the beauty of the divine in all of creation, not the bullshit kind you get from online converts nowadays

Photo of the first issue of International Science Fiction with my tabby cat bookmark and fountain pen. Cover (mostly behind the bookmark, sorry) shows a spaceship with a bunch of flags.

Too bad this magazine only lasted two issues. One of many feathers in Frederik Pohl’s editorial cap despite its lack of success. #scifi #sciencefiction

3/ As important as Disiri is there is not a lot for her to do, but the human princess’s arc is that honor and heroism is not just men clunking each other’s heads.

2/ Tia and Daria call their own shots. Lois in Peace. Phaedra in Fifth Head. True Seven Girls Waiting is a damsel, yes.There Are Doors is somewhat ABOUT female archetypes but there are a lot active women.

1/ I think I disagree on the ratio. In BotNS, Thecla would seem to have no agency but on her first conversation with Severian she pumps him for information that she uses to manipulate Gurloes. Dorcas’s arc with Sev is very similar to Jonas’. Cyriaca is a mix. Agia, well, no question there.

This perspective frustrates me. It’s not like Wolfe went easy on his male characters or protagonists (which, yeah, were usually young men). For a female protagonist, check out his story “Counting Cats in Zanzibar” in the “Strange Travelers” collection.

Hmm… honestly the political aspects of these novels went right over my head.

"She seems blind to my faults, but without that blindness I could not have had her love; I am a mass of faults, held together as it were by a little skin and the law, mortalium rerum misera beatitudo." -- Gene Wolfe, "Home Fires."

That always hits home.

Cover for Frank R. Paul’s cover for Wonder Stories, ed. Hugo Gernsback (September 1934). The cover shows an amazing array of alien plants and a fantastic spaceship.

Short Fiction Review: John Wyndham’s “The Man From Beyond” (variant title: “The Man from Earth”) (1934) sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/08/09/s...

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I can’t think of one. There are some who seem to have more or less tolerable politics on occasion. But my life would be pretty dry if I insisted on approving of the political and life choices of my artists — and my friends.

He didn't write about contemporary politics. The protagonist in Book of the Long Sun is briefly in charge of a city after a revolution & instituted a weapon collection policy rational that the NRA would probably like. But...

De Gene Wolfe a Morrowind: weird fiction, new weird y videojuegos Una de las más interesantes ramas de la ficción especulativa que ha influido a muchas obras de ficción, incluidos los videojuegos.

De Gene Wolfe a Morrowind: weird fiction, new weird y videojuegos

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Paperback of The Wizard Knight by Gene Wolfe

900 large pages but so far it reads quickly.

I realized 45 years ago, one should not hope for sane politics from exceptional artists.

Gene Wolfe has terrible politics but they’re weird enough that it comes out in his writing in fascinating ways

Book of the New Sun is an astounding work of fiction that’s clearly a product of an extremely specific mind and I’m pretty sure Gene Wolfe and I have very different ideas about how the world works.

Pessimism is a core conservative trait, but fantasy and horror (which is a subset of fantasy) are also fundamentally reactionary. And he primarily wrote in those genres.

If you have not read “Soldier of the Mist” yet there is some intriguing trans representation there as well.