![]() ![]() One of the pure joys of reading is finishing a book or series and feeling the transformative effects of that story on my person. The story is written set in the Dying Earth sub-genre. In brief, and without spoilers, this is about the narrator’s journey and transformation. Gene Wolfe writes this series as a first person narrative account of Severian, a novice guild torturer. On Thursday, I finished reading The Book of the New Sun quartology by Gene Wolfe. Each such cycle of flowering and decay marks a divine year. Just as a flower blooms, throws down its seed, dies, and rises from its seed to bloom again, so the universe we know diffuses itself to nullity in the infinitude of space, gathers its fragments (which because of the curvature of that space meet at last where they began) and from that seed blooms again. “The Book of the New Sun” by Gene Wolfe A Complex Dream-like Journey and Transformation Story Jeremy Friesen wrote on :: Tags: “The Book of the New Sun” by Gene Wolfe // Take on Rules Skip to Main Content Take on Rules About ![]()
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