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A spoiler-dense, chapter by chapter discussion of Gene Wolfe‘s science fantasy masterpiece The Book Of The New Sun, covering all four volumes and a little bit from Urth of the New Sun when necessary. They don‘t try to spoil anything else but, then again it‘s not a prepossessing podcast. https://www.patreon.com/rereadingwolfe

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The Sword of the Lictor The Dorcas Break-Up Part 2 Chapter 10-12 "Lead", "The Hand of the Past", "Following the Flood"

The second part of Dorcas and Severian's breakup, in which... honestly, it's too sad to be snarky.

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Patron-only bonus content can be accessed here.

This episode's bonus content: two of four of Wolfe's early stabs at detective stories, now collected in The Wolfe at the Door.

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Links:

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  • Chapter 9, The Salamander

  • Chapter 8, Upon the Cliff

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  • Reddit

  • Chapter 9, The Salamander

  • Chapter 8, Upon the Cliff

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  • Intro from The Alligator, Annihilation soundtrack by Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow

  • Break Music from Symphony #2 - I by Arvo Pärt, performed by NFM Wroclaw Philharmonic

  • Outro from "Drifting Away" by Roy Orbison

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The Sword of the Lictor The Dorcas Break-Up Part 1 Chapter 10-12 "Lead", "The Hand of the Past", "Following the Flood

The first part of Dorcas and Severian's breakup, along with some drama about vomiting odd things.

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Patron-only bonus content can be accessed here.

This episode's bonus content: two of four of Wolfe's early stabs at detective stories, now collected in The Wolfe at the Door.

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Links:

  • Facebook

  • Chapter 9, The Salamander

  • Chapter 8, Upon the Cliff

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  • Reddit

  • Chapter 9, The Salamander

  • Chapter 8, Upon the Cliff

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  • Intro from The Alligator, Annihilation soundtrack by Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow

  • Break Music from Symphony #2 - I by Arvo Pärt, performed by NFM Wroclaw Philharmonic

  • Outro from "Simple Twist of Fate" by Bryan Ferry

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Listener comments end at: 28:00

The Sword of the Lictor Chapter 9 "The Salamander"

After a spiritually fulfilling evening at the jacal with the children, Severian has an encounter with the local fauna.

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Patron-only bonus content can be accessed here.

This episode's bonus content: Gene Wolfe's 1974 essay ''The Tolkien Toll-Free Fifties Freeway to Mordor & Points Beyond Hurray!" from Vector 67/68.

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  • Chapter 9, The Salamander

  • Chapter 8, Upon the Cliff

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  • Chapter 9, The Salamander

  • Chapter 8, Upon the Cliff

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  • Intro from The Alligator, Annihilation soundtrack by Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow

  • Break Music from Symphony #2 - I by Arvo Pärt, performed by NFM Wroclaw Philharmonic

  • Outro from "Salamander" by Jethro Tull

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Listener comments end at: 26:30

The Sword of the Lictor Chapter 8 "Upon the Cliff"

Severian and Cyriaca keep flirting until Abdesius shows up.

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This episode's bonus content: Gene Wolfe's ''Mathoms from the Time Closet"

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  • Chapters 11 and 12 Cyriaca's Story

  • Chapter 7 'Attractions'

  • Chapter 6 'The Library of the Citadel'

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  • Chapters 11 and 12 Cyriaca's Story

  • Chapter 7 'Attractions'

  • Chapter 6 'The Library of the Citadel'

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  • Intro from The Alligator, Annihilation soundtrack by Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow

  • Break Music from Symphony #2 - I by Arvo Pärt, performed by NFM Wroclaw Philharmonic

  • Outro from "Walking up the Hill" by Tom Rosenthal

  • Logo art by SonOfWitz

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Craig talks to CSE Cooney and Carlos Hernandez

CSE Cooney met Wolfe early in her career, and he became something of a mentor to her. Craig caught up with her and her husband at Gen Con where they were releasing and demo-ing their new narrative role playing game Negocios Infernales (all about aliens infiltrating 16th century European culture). Check out her collection Bone Swans or the novel Twice Drowned Saint for a first read.

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Sample story: "The Bone Swans of Amandale"

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Links:

Her website

Her substack

Negocios Infernales

Her music (and this week's outro...)

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  • Intro from The Alligator, Annihilation soundtrack by Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow

  • Break Music from Symphony #2 - I by Arvo Pärt, performed by NFM Wroclaw Philharmonic

  • Outro from "Lysistrata, Strut Your Stuff" Brimstone Rhine (Cooney's musical project)

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Listener comments end at: 10:05

The Sword of the Lictor Cyriaca flashbacks in Chapters 11 and 12

No. You did not miss an episode. We have skipped Severian's actions immediately after leaving the party to discuss the end of Severian and Cyriaca's tryst -- related to Dorcas in her little motel room.

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Patron-only bonus content can be accessed HERE.

This episode's bonus content: Gene Wolfe's ''The Tale of the Rose and the Nightingale (And What Came of It)"

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  • Chapters 11 & 12, Cyriaca's wrap up

  • Chapter 7 'Attractions'

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  • Chapters 11 & 12, Cyriaca's wrap up

  • Chapter 7 'Attractions'

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  • Intro from The Alligator, Annihilation soundtrack by Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow

  • Break Music from Symphony #2 - I by Arvo Pärt, performed by NFM Wroclaw Philharmonic

  • Outro from "Bye-Bye" by Sarah Vaughan

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Listener comments end at: 21:45

The Sword of the Lictor Chapter 7 "Attractions"

Severian and Cyriaca keep flirting until Abdesius shows up.

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Patron-only bonus content can be accessed here.

This episode's bonus content: Gene Wolfe's ''The Tale of the Four Accused"

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Links:

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  • Chapter 7 'Attractions'

  • Chapter 6 'The Library of the Citadel'

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  • Chapter 7 'Attractions'

  • Chapter 6 'The Library of the Citadel'

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  • Intro from The Alligator, Annihilation soundtrack by Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow

  • Break Music from Symphony #2 - I by Arvo Pärt, performed by NFM Wroclaw Philharmonic

  • Outro from "I Hurt You" by The Pretenders

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Ryan Leslie Interview

Ryan Leslie is a writer whose third book, The Garden of Before, is coming out on September 23, 2025. We discuss his other books The Between and Colossus (which Craig narrated for him -- the audiobook is available on Audible).

Links:

  • The Between

  • Colossus

  • Audiobook of Colossus (narrated by Craig)

  • Incubus (Shatner's Esperanto movie)

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  • Sponsor ad background music from "My Name Is" by Eminem
  • Outro from "Colossus" by Magic Sword
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Listener comments end at: 18:10

The Sword of the Lictor Chapter 6 "The Library of the Citadel"

Severian and Cyriaca keep each other company while Cyriaca relates a strange story that is also vaguely familiar.

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Patron-only bonus content can be accessed here.

This episode's bonus content: Gene Wolfe's ''Incubator"

You can read it HERE

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  • Chapter 6 'The Library of the Citadel'

  • Chapter 5 'Cyriaca'

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  • Chapter 6 'The Library of the Citadel'

  • Chapter 5 'Cyriaca'

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  • Intro from The Alligator, Annihilation soundtrack by Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow

  • Break Music from Symphony #2 - I by Arvo Pärt, performed by NFM Wroclaw Philharmonic

  • Outro from "Timemachine" by Suburbs

  • Logo art by SonOfWitz

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Listener comments end at: 14:45

The Sword of the Lictor Chapter 5 "Cyriaca"

Severian goes to a party and chats up a girl in a nun costume.

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Patron-only bonus content can be accessed here.

This episode's bonus content: Gene Wolfe's ''British in Bloomington"

You can read it HERE

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  • Chapter 5 'Cyriaca'

  • Chapter 4 'In the Bartizan of the Vincula'

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  • Chapter 5 'Cyriaca'

  • Chapter 4 'In the Bartizan of the Vincula'

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  • Intro from The Alligator, Annihilation soundtrack by Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow

  • Break Music from Symphony #2 - I by Arvo Pärt, performed by NFM Wroclaw Philharmonic

  • Outro from "Garden Party" by Ricky Nelson

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Listener comments end at: 30:32

The Sword of the Lictor Chapter 4 "In the Bartizan of the Vincula"

Severian has a project management meeting with his boss.

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Patron-only bonus content can be accessed here.

This episode's bonus content: Gene Wolfe's ''Sob in the Silence"

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  • Chapter 3 'Outside the Jacal'

  • Chapter 2 "Upon the Cataract"

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  • Chapter 3 'Outside the Jacal'

  • Chapter 2 "Upon the Cataract"

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  • Pre-Intro from Absolutely Sweet Marie by John Craigie

  • Intro from The Alligator, Annihilation soundtrack by Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow

  • Break Music from Symphony #2 - I by Arvo Pärt, performed by NFM Wroclaw Philharmonic

  • Outro from "Two Tone Feather" by Dion

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Listener comments end at: 23: 50

The Sword of the Lictor Chapter 3 "Outside the Jacal"

Severian sets up Dorcas in a cheap motel, tries to explain himself, gets lost (of course), and ends up outside of some poor people's house.

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Patron-only bonus content can be accessed here.

This episode's bonus content: Gene Wolfe's 'King Under the Mountain'

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  • Chapter 3 'Outside the Jacal'

  • Chapter 2 "Upon the Cataract"

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  • Chapter 3 'Outside the Jacal'

  • Chapter 2 "Upon the Cataract"

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  • Pre-Intro from Absolutely Sweet Marie by John Craigie

  • Intro from The Alligator, Annihilation soundtrack by Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow

  • Break Music from Symphony #2 - I by Arvo Pärt, performed by NFM Wroclaw Philharmonic

  • Outro from Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood by Nina Simone

  • Logo art by SonOfWitz

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Listener comments end at: 38: 10

The Sword of the Lictor Chapter 2 "Upon the Cataract"

After his fight with Dorcas, Severian takes a walking tour of Thrax.

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Patron-only bonus content can be accessed here.

This episode's bonus content: Gene Wolfe's 'The Case of the Vanishing Ghost'

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Links:

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  • Chapter 2 "Upon the Cataract"

  • Chapter 1 "Master of the House of Chains"

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  • Chapter 2 "Upon the Cataract"

  • Chapter 1 "Master of the House of Chains"

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  • Intro from The Alligator, Annihilation soundtrack by Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow

  • Break Music from Symphony #2 - I by Arvo Pärt, performed by NFM Wroclaw Philharmonic

  • Outro from "Walking the City Streets" by George Jackson

  • Logo art by SonOfWitz

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Listener comments end at: 45:05

The Sword of the Lictor Chapter 1 "Master of the House of Chains"

Severian starts his new job. Dorcas is unhappy

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Patron-only bonus content can be accessed here.

This episode's bonus content: Gene Wolfe's 'Why I Was Hanged'

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Links:

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  • Claw of the Conciliator Summary

  • Chapter 31 "The Cleansing" Part 2

  • Special All-Comments Episode

  • Chapter 31 "The Cleansing" Part 1

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  • Reddit

  • Claw of the Conciliator Summary

  • Chapter 31 "The Cleansing" Part 2

  • Special All-Comments Episode

  • Chapter 31 "The Cleansing" Part 1

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  • Intro from The Alligator, Annihilation soundtrack by Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow

  • Break Music from Symphony #2 - I by Arvo Pärt, performed by NFM Wroclaw Philharmonic

  • Outro from "Chain Gang" by Sam Cooke

  • Logo art by SonOfWitz

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The Claw of the Conciliator Summary

At long last we put paid to the second volume.

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Patron-only bonus content can be accessed here.

This episodes's bonus content: Gene Wolfe's 'The Green Wall Said'

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  • Chapter 31 "The Cleansing" Part 2

  • Special All-Comments Episode

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  • Special All-Comments Episode

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  • Pre-Intro from The Claw by Barrence Whitfield & The Savages

  • Intro from The Alligator, Annihilation soundtrack by Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow

  • Break Music from Symphony #2 - I by Arvo Pärt, performed by NFM Wroclaw Philharmonic

  • Outro from Claw Hammer by Elton John

  • Logo art by SonOfWitz

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Listener comments end at: 46:00

The Claw of the Conciliator Chapter 31 "The Cleansing" Part 2

The séance starts at last. And then it all goes to hell. Leaving us to ponder what really happened. But, on the upside, we have finally finished the Claw of the Conciliator.

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Patron-only bonus content can be accessed here.

This episodes's bonus content: Gene Wolfe's 'The Green Wall Said'

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  • Chapter 31 "The Cleansing" Part 2

  • Special All-Comments Episode

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  • Break Music from Symphony #2 - I by Arvo Pärt, performed by NFM Wroclaw Philharmonic

  • Outro from "Yesterday Is Here" by Rebekka Bakken

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Special All-Comments Episode

This is an all comments episode where we go through comments we might have missed talking about in this crazy half-year.

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  • Intro from The Alligator, Annihilation soundtrack by Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow 

  • Break Music from Symphony #2 - I by Arvo Pärt, performed by NFM Wroclaw Philharmonic 

  • Intro and Outro from the theme to "The Rockford Files" by Mike Post and Pete Carpenter

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The Claw of the Conciliator Chapter 31 "The Cleansing"

After Hildegrin reveals himself, Severian and Dorcas' encounter with the Witches continues.

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  • Chapter 31 "The Cleansing"

  • Chapter 30 "The Badger Again"

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  • Chapter 31 "The Cleansing"

  • Chapter 30 "The Badger Again"

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The Claw of the Conciliator Chapter 30 "The Badger Again"

Severian and Dorcas and Jolenta arrive at the Stone Town and encounter two witches, but, gee, it really looked like there was someone else with them. 'No' you say, Merryn? Well, okay. Oh! Wait now you've changed your story...!

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The Claw of the Conciliator Chapter 29 "The Herdsman"

Severian and Dorcas and Jolenta have an eventful morning and afternoon --almost too eventful to be believed -- filled with roast beef, bull riding, and encounters with the animal kingdom.

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The Claw of the Conciliator Chapter 28 "The Odalisque of Abaia"

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First, a very unofficial reading of "Christmas Inn" by Gene Wolfe, narrated by Craig. Then James and Craig discuss the story.

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The Claw of the Conciliator Chapter 27 "Toward Thrax"

Severian, Dorcas and Jolenta camp out Severian dreams of Mama. Then he gets a call.

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The Claw of the Conciliator Chapter 26 "The Parting"

After the thrilling end of the play, Severian gets pensive about the past and wander dolefully beyond House Absolute.

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The Claw of the Conciliator Chapter 25 "The Attack on the Heirodules"

After the thrilling end of the play, Severian gets pensive about the past and wander dolefully beyond House Absolute.

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The Claw of the Conciliator Chapter 24 "Dr. Talos's Play" - PART 4

The Glorious end of the play complete with factionalism and recriminations.

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Craig and James talk about The Shadow of the Con: our little Wolfecon within a con at Worldcon 2022 with other Wolfe fans. 

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The Claw of the Conciliator Chapter 24 "Dr. Talos's Play" - PART 3

Statues! Autarchs! Demons!

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The Claw of the Conciliator Chapter 24 "Dr. Talos's Play" - PART 3

We push on! The Contessa sparks confusion and disagreement. Then we get theological. Links:

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The Claw of the Conciliator Chapter 24 "Dr. Talos's Play" - PART 2

We push on! We encounter Jahi and a statue. Craig and Marc Aramini grapple. James flounders. Links:

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The Claw of the Conciliator Chapter 24 "Dr. Talos's Play"

Marc Aramini joins us for the great event of the late Commonweath! Talos's play "Eschatology & Genesis!" We get started on this thing in this episode. We'll keep at it as long as it takes.

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Joan Gordon and Diane Lambert discuss the meaning and implication of the character Jolenta in The Book of the New Sun.

Gordon wrote the first non-fiction book on Gene Wolfe's works. She's a teacher and scholar. 

Lambert is a moderator of the Gene Wolfe Appreciation Society Facebook Group. She is also a teacher and a scholar. 

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The Claw of the Conciliator Chapter 23 "Jolenta"

Severian and Jolenta tour the House Absolute grounds. Absolutely nothing controversial happens. /sarcasm

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The Darrell Schweitzer Interview

Darrell Schweitzer has been a fanzine/genre magazine contributor and interviewer since the late 60s, a published author since the 70s and the editor of Weird Tales and various anthologies. He is considered a foremost anthologist of weird fiction, dark fantasy, and horror, having edited definitive collections of Lord Dunsany, H. P. Lovecraft, and Robert E. Howard. 

He won the Asimov's Science Fiction's Readers' Award for his poetry and a World Fantasy Award for his editing. 

His novel The Mask of the Sorcerer is often cited by Wolfe enthusiasts as within the Wolfe genre.

He also has some books for sale (please use these links b/c they will go directly to his personal ebay account):

  • Mask of the Sorcerer
  • Sekenre: the Book of the Sorcerer
  • Refugees from an Imaginary Country
  • Echoes of the Goddess
  • The Shattered Goddess
  • The Best of Darrell Schweitzer

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The Claw of the Conciliator Chapter 22 "Personifications"

Dorcas puts Severian on the couch, but it seems she's the one who could benefit from analysis.

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Nathan Carson: musician, agent, writer, Wolfe interviewer

  • nathancarson.rocks

  • Interview with Gene Wolfe

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1 First encounter with a Wolfe story. 

2 Favorite novel or short story, either or both 

3 Favorite Wolfe word 

4 A personal non-consensus theory about a Wolfe story or your favorite one. 

5 Most frustrating mystery in a Wolfe story (any).

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The Claw of the Conciliator Chapter 21 "Hydromancy"

Severian reads a really, really big book and then gets his fortune told by the fountain.

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  • Chapter 21 "Hydromancy"

  • Chapter 20 "Pictures"

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  • Chapter 21 Hydromancy

  • Chapter 20 Pictures 

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The Claw of the Conciliator Chapter 20 "Pictures"

Looking for the Green Room, Severian meets some old friends from the Citadel.

Links:

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  • Chapter 20 "Pictures"

  • Chapter 19 "Closets" 

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  • Chapter 20 Pictures

  • Chapter 19 Closets

  • Reddit: Part 1 The Usefulness of Valeria

  • Reddit Part 2 The Geneology of Valeria

  • Reddit Part 3 The Valeria Train Goes On!

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John Kissane considers what makes a Wolfe story special.

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2 Favorite novel or short story, either or both 

3 Favorite Wolfe word 

4 A personal non-consensus theory about a Wolfe story or your favorite one. 

5 Most frustrating mystery in a Wolfe story (any).

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The Claw of the Conciliator Chapter 19 "Closets"

After Jonas disappeared into the mirror, Severian goes looking for his sword and encounters old friends and new ones.

Links:

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  • Chapter 19 "Closets" 

  • Chapter 17b The Tale of the Student and His Son

  • Capricon Dispatch

  • Noodus' Crab C'thuhlu

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  • Chapter 19 Closets

  • A Mantis View on "The Student and His Son" (with First Severian interpretation)

  • Chapter 17b The Tale of the Student and His Son

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Warning: almost no Wolfe content at all. James and Craig just sit around in the same room (for the first time ever) and talk about going to a relatively uneventful con. Never say we don't provide novel, exciting content. But we do throw around some ideas for a Wolfe-con near the end.

And we mention books we bought and/or learned about:

  • Damon Knight, Three Novels
  • Humphrey Carter, Tolkien: A Biography
  • Tolkien, Unfinished Tales
  • Greg Ketter (ed.), Shelf Life: Fantastic Stories Celebrating Bookstores
  • Tom Disch, Neighboring Lives and The Priest
  • C.S.E. Cooney, Desdemona and the Deep
  • Swanwick, Cigar-Box Faust and Other Miniatures
  • Theodora Goss, Snow White Learns Witchcraft
  • Christopher John Farley, Kingston by Starlight
  • Leigh Brackett, The Long Tomorrow
  • K.B. Wagers, Out Past the Stars
  • William Horwood, Duncan Woods
  • Nicole Korner-Stace, Firebreak
  • Barry Hughart, Bridge of Birds
  • and a new (to us) podcast: The Skiffy and Fanty Show

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The Claw of the Conciliator Chapter 17 parts 3, 4, & 5, "The Tale of the Student and His Son"

Severian continues to read to Jonas from the "The Book of the Wonders of Urth and Sky:" "The Encounter with the Princess," "The Battle with the Ogre," and "The Death of the Student."   Links:

  • Facebook

  • Chapter 17b

  • Chapter 17a The Tale of the Student and His Son  

  • Reader Interview - Sian Greening

  • How the Bishop Sailed to Inniskeen

  • The Circular Ruins by Jorge Luis Borges

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- Chapter 18 Mirrors

- Chapter 16 Jonas (part 2)

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The story of a youth who encounters strange people in a moment of rebellion which sets them on a path to leave their family and their ideals behind.  Yes, that's Severian's story. It's also Sian's.

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3 Favorite Wolfe word 

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5 Most frustrating mystery in a Wolfe story (any).

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Craig and James talk about Gene Wolfe's Christmas ghost story "How the Bishop Sailed to Inniskeen."

Published in:

  • Spirits of Christmas: Twenty Other-Worldly Tales (1989)

  • Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, (December 1989)

  • Innocents Aboard: New Fantasy Stories (2004)

  • Season of Wonder (2012)

David G Hartwell Christmas books:

  • Christmas Ghosts (1987)

  • Spirits of Christmas (1989)

  • Christmas Stars (1992)

  • Christmas Forever (1993)

  • Christmas Magic (1994)

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The Claw of the Conciliator Chapter 17 parts 1 & 2, "The Tale of the Student and His Son"

Severian reads to Jonas from the "The Book of the Wonders of Urth and Sky:" "The Redoubt of the Magicians" and "The Fleshing of the Hero."   Links:

  • Facebook  

  • Chapter 18 Mirrors 

  • Chapter 16 Jonas (part 2)

- Chapter 16, Jonas (part 1)

  • Reddit

  • Chapter 18 Mirrors

  • Chapter 16 Jonas (part 2)

  • Chapter 16 Jonas (part 1)

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The Claw of the Conciliator Chapter 18, "Mirrors"

Severian wakes up as Thecla. Hethor's critter is hunting them, so Sev wakes up Jonas and they go to Inire's mirrors.    Links:

- The Yarn of the Nancy Bell

- Stephen Frug on Jonas

  • Facebook  

  • Chapter 16 Jonas (part 2)

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  • Reddit

  • Chapter 16 (part 2)

  • Chapter 16 (part 1)

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The Claw of the Conciliator Chapter 16, "Jonas"

The chapter continues with Severian gets treats from the concession cart.  Jonas discusses his past in his broken confused way. He talks about Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass."   Links:

- Tea-based time travel clue in the Atrium of Time

- Teilhard de Chardin and THEORY of OMEGA POINT

- Matt Puz

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  • Chapter 16 (part 2)

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The (first) Brian Evenson Interview

Brian Evenson is an academic and acclaimed, award-winning author of novels and stories spanning every conceivable genre. Naturally he is also a Wolfe fan.

Links:

  • Blending Fantasy and Sci-Fi in Gene Wolfe’s The Shadow of the Torturer at Tor.com

  • brianevenson.com

  • bibliography

  • "The Glassy Burning Floor of Hell"

  • Interview at Los Angeles Review of Books

"I returned to Wolfe a few decades later because of a student’s interest in his The Fifth Head of Cerberus and realized that Wolfe (along with the very different J. G. Ballard) had had a deep subterranean impact on me as a developing writer, almost without my knowing. I feel like I’ve learned a tremendous amount from him since, as I’ve systematically gone through and read all of his work."

  • Civilian Reader Interview

Q: "What inspired the novella? And where do you draw your inspiration from in general?"

A: "It was inspired partly by Gene Wolfe’s novella The Fifth Head of Cerberus. I think that’s such a deft little novella — all three parts of it, but the first part especially — and is really satisfying to read. I think I began there, with an admiration for that book, and then let it take me somewhere slightly different. Lurking in the background are aspects of the world and character characteristics of my novel Immobility, though it’s set in a somewhat different place."

  • Coode Street Podcast Interview

"Gary K. Wolfe spends 10 minutes with Brian Evenson to discuss his relationship to genre, reading catastrophe fiction, the rewards of reading Gene Wolfe and Algernon Blackwood, and his forthcoming collection, The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell."

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The Claw of the Conciliator Chapter 16, "Jonas"

Innocents of the Antechamber are whipped and terrorized by Great Wizard of Oz knock-offs, and robot-man Jonas can't decide on the definition of sanity. (The first of two episodes on this chapter.)

Links:

  • Sierra Reynolds on Kim Il Sung and Kimleesoong

  • Stephen Frug on Heliocentric metaphors and hunting leopards

  • Stephen Frug on the Ferentarii's song and Talking heads

pending

  • Facebook 

- Chapter 16, Jonas (part 1)

- Chapter 15, Fool's Fire

  • Reddit

- Chapter 16 Jonas (part 1)

- Chapter 15, Fool's Fire

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The Claw of the Conciliator Chapter 15, "The Fool's Fire"

Severian meets the inhabitants of the Antechamber (not that he learns it is called that) and Jonas starts his mental breakdown. 

Links:

  • Jordon Flato and the Claw

  • Chris Ott: A dweller in forgotten yesterdays  

  • Mark Mandarano and Sev thinks about his death in the Flower of Dissolution chapter

  • Gary Owens and the averns as an Undine Repellant 

  • Michael Grant thinks about the relationship between Baldanders and BFO

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- Chapter 15 The Fool's Fire

- Chapter 14 The Antechamber

  • Reddit

- Chapter 15 The Fool's Fire

- Chapter 14 The Antechamber

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C Derick Varn Interviews Craig and James

Derick interviewed us about Gene Wolfe, his works, and his legacy. 

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  • The Varn Vlog: Voice Podcast 

  • Varn Vlog Video on YouTube by Ada Palmer 

  • Varn Vlog Patreon Site

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The Ada Palmer Interview

Ada Palmer wrote the introductions to the latest edition of "Shadow & Claw" from Tor, "The Path of the New Sun" as well as to the upcoming "Sword & Citadel." And now she talks to us. Yay!

She is a professor of History at the University of Chicago and a scholar of the Renaissance. Her novel "Too Like the Lightning" was a Hugo Award nominee in 2017, and that year she won the John W Campbell award for Best New Writer. 

Links:

  • Ada's Website and Terra Ignota series 

  • Writing the Distant Future of Global Politics by Ada Palmer 

  • Ada and Jo Walton's podcast 

  • The Great Books Podcast interviews Palmer about The Book of the New Sun

Things we talked about:

  • Jacques the Fatalist and his Master by Denis Diderot

  • Phoenix manga series by Osamu Tezuka

  • Cesare Beccaria, 18th century Italian criminologist

  • Neon Genesis Evangelion anime 

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The Claw of the Conciliator Chapter 14, "The Antechamber"

Severian and Jonas do NOT "come to the garden alone," but instead are accompanied by invisible praetorians and strange giant statues. 

Links:

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- Chapter 14 The Antechamber

- Chapter 13 The Claw of the Conciliator

  • Reddit

- Chapter 14 The Antechamber

- Chapter 13 The Claw of the Conciliator

- Morwenna's Guilnocence

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The Claw of the Conciliator Chapter 13, "The Claw of the Conciliator"

Severian resurrects an uhlan and reconnects with the president of his fan club and its first rank and file member.

Links:

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- Chapter 13 The Claw of the Conciliator

- Chapter 12 Notules

- Jeremy Sheets Correction on Baluchitheres, etc

- Stephen Frug's corrections and comments on Chapter 30 - Night

- Stuart Hamm's rant on pronunciation

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  • Chapter 12 Notules

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The Claw of the Conciliator Chapter 12, "The Notules"

Severian and Jonas flee extra-terrestrial ritual murder bats. 

Links:

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- Chapter 11 Thecla

  • Reddit

  • Chapter 12 Notules

  • Chapter 11 Thecla

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The Claw of the Conciliator Chapter 11, "Thecla"

Severian and Jonas share a meal with the Vodalarii -- and that meal is Thecla.

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- Chapter 10 Thea

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  • Chapter 10 Thea

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From New Zealand, Aaron Raisey, collector of signed, first edition Gene Wolfe books, brings love for "The Land Across."

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  • Author Hugh Walters 

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2 Favorite novel or short story, either or both 

3 Favorite Wolfe word 

4 A personal non-consensus theory about a Wolfe story or your favorite one. 

5 Most frustrating mystery in a Wolfe story (any).

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Mike Farrar draws the line between the Whorl and Yesod.  

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4 A personal non-consensus theory about a Wolfe story or your favorite one. 

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The Claw of the Conciliator Chapter 10, "Thea"

Over lunch with Severian and Jonas, Vodalus discusses his plan to return humanity to space and his Megatherian allies. Thea reveals an... unsavory... secret about the Vodalarii.

Links:

  • "Chapter Guide to The Shadow of the Torturer" by Matthew Chiarello

  • Phorusrhacos

  • Behold the Lord High Executioner

  • Facebook

  • Chapter 10 Thea

  • Chapter 09 The Liege of Leaves

  • Reddit

  • Chapter 10 Thea

  • Chapter 09 The Liege of Leaves

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Sierra Reynolds reads from her magic, fabled notes.  

  • Fact checking: "cacogen" = "an anti-social person"? Checks out.  Lexicon Urthus notes this but James was never fully conscious of it.
  • "Jolenta" and violet flowers? Checks out. Lexicon Urthus associates the name with "Jolie" but it definitely is also possible to associate with Iolantha which means "violet flower." Also with names like Jolanta and Yolanda.

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1 First encounter with a Wolfe story. 

2 Favorite novel or short story, either or both 

3 Favorite Wolfe word 

4 A personal non-consensus theory about a Wolfe story or your favorite one. 

5 Most frustrating mystery in a Wolfe story (any).

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Keith Adams and the Soviet Vampires!

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The Claw of the Conciliator Chapter 09, "The Liege of Leaves"

Severian and Jonas ride a baluchithere and Severian gets to meet his hero, and the introduction goes about as perfectly as he could have hoped. Alas, meeting his hero turns out the way meeting your heroes often turns out.

Links:

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- Chapter 09 The Liege of Leaves

- Chapter 08 The Cultellarii 

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- Chapter 08 The Cultellarii

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Sean Michael Robinson, illustrator and musician, turns the tables and interrogates his interrogator.

  • Publisher at Living the Line Books

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2 Favorite novel or short story, either or both

3 Favorite Wolfe word

4 A personal non-consensus theory about a Wolfe story or your favorite one.

5 Most frustrating mystery in a Wolfe story (any).

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Korkut Gule brings it from Singapore.

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2 Favorite novel or short story, either or both 

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4 A personal non-consensus theory about a Wolfe story or your favorite one. 

5 Most frustrating mystery in a Wolfe story (any).

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The Claw of the Conciliator Chapter 08, "The Cultellarii"

Severian and Jonas return to the inn and talk about the man-apes and the Megatherians.

Links:

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- Chapter 08 The Cultellarii 

- Chapter 07 The Assassins

  • Reddit

- Chapter 08 The Cultellarii

- Chapter 07 The Assassins

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David Stockhoff, a man who looooves a good Wolfe theory.

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1 First encounter with a Wolfe story. 

2 Favorite novel or short story, either or both 

3 Favorite Wolfe word 

4 A personal non-consensus theory about a Wolfe story or your favorite one. 

5 Most frustrating mystery in a Wolfe story (any).

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The Claw of the Conciliator Chapter 07, "The Assassins"

Severian leaves the cavern and is reunited with Agia. 

Did Severian heal the man-ape's arm with the Claw in front of Agia?

Links:

  • Mike Bennewitz's Geographical Axis of the Enemies of the Increate:

- #1

- #2 

  • Michael Andre-Driuss (aka Mantis) proffers that the man-apes were not fleeing from the scary sound, but running toward it.

  • Scott, Aaron, BJ, Brendan & Samantha (aka Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich) on the Man-apes cavern -- in the 2:06 Reddit comments.

  • Neal Smith (SarcasMage) -- in the 2:06 Reddit comments.

  • Mike Farrar continues the fight on Morwenna's guilt and murderousness but has some ideas about Hethor including, he's Korean? -- in the 2:06 Reddit comments.

  • Noodus McGroodus on FB says Agia and Agilus could be generated from Hethor's mirror sails.

  • Facebook

- Chapter 07 The Assassins

- Chapter 06 Blue Light 

- Marc's Rebuttal 

- Chapter 05 The Bourne 

- Chapter 04 The Bouquet

  • Reddit

---- Chapter 07 The Assassins

---- Chapter 06 Blue Light 

---- Discussion at the r/Genewolfe

---- Marc's Rebuttal

---- Chapter 05 The Bourne 

---- Chapter 04 The Bouquet 

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SonofWitz 

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  • Mike's Axis of the Increate's Enemies Model

  • Mike's Update to the Model 

  • Instagram

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1 First encounter with a Wolfe story. 

2 Favorite novel or short story, either or both 

3 Favorite Wolfe word 

4 A personal non-consensus theory about a Wolfe story or your favorite one. 

5 Most frustrating mystery in a Wolfe story (any).

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Marcos Go-VEY-ah.

Marcos started out on the podcast with emails analyzing all the possible pronunciations of Triskele. 

  • From the Urth List, some of Fernando Q. Gouvea's contributions. 

  • Additionally, New York Review of Science Fiction, January 1990, Issue 17: Fernando Q. Gouvea reviews ENDANGERED SPECIES and sends loc on SOLDIER OF ARETE.

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1 First encounter with a Wolfe story. 

2 Favorite novel or short story, either or both 

3 Favorite Wolfe word 

4 A personal non-consensus theory about a Wolfe story or your favorite one. 

5 Most frustrating mystery in a Wolfe story (any).

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The Claw of the Conciliator Chapter 06, "Blue Light"

Severian throws down with the man-apes.

Also James changes his mind about what happened at Morwenna's execution... again. (See the comments).

Links:

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---- Chapter 06 Blue Light 

---- Gary Owens on Morwenna's innocence

---- Marc's Rebuttal 

---- Chapter 05 The Bourne 

---- Chapter 04 The Bouquet

  • Reddit

---- Chapter 06 Blue Light 

---- Discussion at the r/Genewolfe

---- Marc's Rebuttal 

---- Mike Farrar's A Little More-wenna 

---- Chapter 05 The Bourne 

---- Chapter 04 The Bouquet 

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Master Stuart Hamm -- Tower of the Bass Line. 

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1 First encounter with a Wolfe story. 

2 Favorite novel or short story, either or both 

3 Favorite Wolfe word 

4 A personal non-consensus theory about a Wolfe story or your favorite one. 

5 Most frustrating mystery in a Wolfe story (any).

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Marc Aramini is not having it with our exoneration of Morwenna and putting the blame on poor flower-gifting Eusebia.

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---- Marc's Rebuttal

---- Chapter 05 The Bourne

---- Chapter 04 The Bouquet

  • Reddit

---- Marc's Rebuttal

---- Mike Farrar's A Little More-wenna

---- Chapter 05 The Bourne

---- Chapter 04 The Bouquet

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Stephen "I can do the Frug" Frug

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Teacher and Gene Wolfe fanatic Diana Lambert

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1 First encounter with a Wolfe story.

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The Claw of the Conciliator Chapter 05, "The Bourne"

Post-Game conversation with Severian and Jonas over dinner. Then Severian get's a letter from "Thecla" and has to bug out.  

Links:

  • Pantopsalis on the significance of Valaria Parts 1, 2, 3

  • Lord of Atlantis on the Geography of the Commonwealth

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The Claw of the Conciliator Chapter 04, "The Bouquet"

Morwenna gets executed but who is guilty? It's surprising how much debate there is and how sure opposing partisans are of their positions.  

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  • The Flammarion Engraving 

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The Claw of the Conciliator Chapter 03, "The Showman's Tent"

Severian chases Agia through the fair. He talks religion with the tea lady. He gets his fortune told by a Green Man. Why doesn't the Green Man, who has been through time from the future, remember the coming of the New Sun?

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The Claw of the Conciliator Chapter 02, "The Man In the Dark"

They pull Barnoch from his House/Tomb. So many parallels between the beginning and end of this book. Was Mother Pyrexia a Cumaean-type of Heiro?

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The Claw of the Conciliator Chapter 01, "The Village of Saltus"

How long has it been since the riot at Piteous Gate? What is the strange connection Severian has to Morwenna even before the execution?

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The Shadow of the Torturer Summary

We talk about our opinions of Severian and company at this point and how our opinions have changed. Also, yes, it is a good book but WHY is it good? Did we accomplish what we wanted? 

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  • Gene Wolfe subreddit 
  • Reddit: Discussions of Chapter 35 
  • Facebook: Discussions of Chapter 35 
  • Mike LeJeune's connection between New Sun and Free Live Free 
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Christmas Special 2020

Craig and James sit down with Glenn McDorman of the Gene Wolfe Literary Podcast to discuss and rate four Gene Wolfe Christmas stories.

  • La Befana
  • The War Beneath the Tree
  • And When They Appear
  • No Planets Strike

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  • Claytemple Media site
  • Weird Christmas Podcast site 

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The Shadow of the Torturer Chapter 35, "Hethor"

This is it! The last chapter of The Shadow of the Torturer! Let's talk about Hethor again. And what DID happen at the end of this chapter?

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  • Obiwanspicoli's citations where Severian says the havoc at Piteous Gate was caused by uhlans attacking the travelers:

Claw of the Conciliator, chapter 12: The Notules:

The day before, we had seen uhlans on patrol, men mounted much as we were and bearing lances like those that had killed the travelers at the Piteous Gate.

Citadel of the Autarch, chapter 1, The Dead Soldier:

It was much like the old road the uhlans had been blocking when I had become separated from Dr. Talos, Baldanders, Jolenta, and Dorcas when we left Nessus, but I was unprepared for the cloud of dust that hung about it.

Urth of the New Sun, chapter 34 Saltus Again:

A good inn's there." I answered, "I know," thinking as I did how Jonas and I had walked there through the forest after the uhlans had scattered our party at the Piteous Gate, of finding the wine in our ewer, and many other things.

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The Shadow of the Torturer Chapter 34, "Morning"

The Garden of Eden in Nessus! How is Talos like Pandora? Also, Severian suddenly remembers Valeria 30 chapters later.

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  • Ultan's Library: A Curiously Conflicted Book: Craig Brewer reviews ‘Interlibrary Loan’

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The Shadow of the Torturer Chapter 33, "Five Legs"

Severian has a nightmare about going to political science class and having to take a test he didn't study for. Why are Severian's memories about Master Malrubius so fuzzy? What is the point of the events of this chapter? Hi, Triskele! Who's a good boy!

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  • Ultan's Library: A Curiously Conflicted Book: Craig Brewer reviews ‘Interlibrary Loan’
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The Don Maitz Interview

Don Maitz created the covers for The Book of the New Sun and The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories. And also how he got started and the book cover illustration industry. 

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The Shadow of the Torturer Chapter 32, "The Play"

Marc Aramini assists on this one to talk about symbolism and Talos's play. Severian and Dorcas try out some improv drama.

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  • Cody Martin doesn't think Thecla gets the treatment most exultants do after execution.
  • Boombaptraprap talks about chapter 31 and Jung
  • The Psychologist that Went Mad to Understand Madness
  • Angus Townsend theorizes about Agilus and Kim Lee Soong

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The Shadow of the Torturer Chapter 31, "The Shadow of the Torturer"

We are Jung! Severian removes his first head, finds the Claw, and has a vision of a Temple in the Sky!

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  • Chapter 29 episode subreddit
  • Chapter 30 episode Facebook post
  • Chapter 29 episode Facebook post
  • Jack Redelfs on why the castrate failed Autarch's
  • "Black Robes in Paraguay" by William F. Jaenike

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The Shadow of the Torturer Chapter 30, "Night"

What the heck is the deal with Hethor? Also, New Wave SF sex!

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  • Eurobubba sees something going on with Agia and Agilus' halos, also her name
  • LaughterHouseV wonders what Agia scratched
  • Urth List Ryan Dunn asks Is Agia a Robot?
  • Goonhandz and James talk about Agia
  • Michael Andre-Druissi takes inventory on Agia's weapons

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The Shadow of the Torturer Chapter 29, "Agilus"

Severian visits Agilus in prison. Agia draws... what? A face? A map? A symbol? 

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The Shadow of the Torturer Chapter 28, "Carnifex"

Severian wakes up in the lazaret to discover he's being attended to by a baboon. He wanders around the Hall of Justice and comes back to talk to Dorcas.

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  • Sean Michael Robinson on Cadroe of the Seventeen Stones
  • Ian C Smith on Raucho and the events at the Botanic Gardens 1 and 2
  • Marco Gouvea on the pronunciation of "Gurloes"
  • Adam Roth's First Severian/Agia Curiositus Urthus

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The John Crowley Interview

John Crowley has never read a whole Gene Wolfe story but he's read Hamlet's Mill and that is the only 20th-century work included in the Chrasmological Writings (The Book of the Long/Short Sun). So we talked to him about that and about related works.

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Links:

  • Hamlet's Mill - Wikipedia
  • Hamlet's Mill - Amazon
  • Little Big by John Crowely - Amazon
  • Aegypt franchise by John Crowley - Amazon
  • A Fish Dinner in Memison by ER Eddison
  • Thinking with Demons: The Idea of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe by Stewart Clark
  • Francis Yates
    • Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition (1964)
    • The Art of Memory (1966)
    • The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age (1979)
  • Black Athena by Martin Bernal
  • Focault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco

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The Shadow of the Torturer Chapter 27, "Is He Dead?"

Severian battles with averns at the Sanguinary Fields. Dorcas takes him to find medical help.

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  • Sean Michael Robinson why Dorcas doesn't let Severian buy clothes for her at the Inn of Lost Loves. Also, why Severian is such a good wine critic.
  • Mickey Smith wonders if when Dorcas said "Sun" in the Hildegrin chapter, she actually said "Son".
  • Wolfe and the number 17

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The Shadow of the Torturer Chapter 26, "Sennet"

Severian and Dorcas and Agia continue their search for the writer of the secret note. Severian considers the connection between love and desire and offers bad relationship advice.

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  • The Dragonstairs Press release official of the print version of Rereading Wolfe's interview with Michael Swanwick about Gene Wolfe. Handbound and signed by Swanwick.
    • Dragonstairs Press FB page
    • Dragonstairs Press website
  • GoonHandz: Dorcas and the Hyacinth -- labryrinths, mists, fog, Sev getting lost are all signals of time-travel
  • Mickey Smith on Inire's mirror room and what happens if you turn on a light in a circular mirrored room
  • Ask Me Anything on Reddit: Author of Lexicon Urthus, Michael Andre-Driussi
  • Review of Operation Ares posted on Ultan's Library
  • A bugle tattoo

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The Jack Dann Interview

Dude, it’s Jack Dann. What more do you want to know? 

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  • Jack Dann’s ISFDB page

Errata:

Jack requested that we note the following corrections:

  • "Joy In Our Cause" was written by Carol Emschwiller, not Kit Reed.

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The Shadow of the Torturer Chapter 25, "The Inn of Lost Loves"

Severian, Agia, Dorcas, go to supper at a restaurant in a tree. Severian finds a note on his plate.

Links:

  • Aeneid Book 6
  • At Ultan's Library, Marc Aramini reviews "Gene Wolfe's 'The Book of the New Sun': A Chapter Guide"
  • Ask Me Anything on Reddit: The Gene Wolfe Literary Podcast
  • Austin Beeman: Was Dorcas Possessed?
  • Gary Ownens: Does the Cumaean summon aquastors?
  • Ted Kuster: A ReReading Banks Podcast?

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The Shadow of the Torturer Chapter 24, "The Flower of Dissolution"

Severian, Agia, Dorcas, and Hildegrin cross the Lake of Birds. Severian and Dorcas both pick flowers.

Links:

  • Sean Michael Robinson on Beatrix Potter of the New Sun
  • Mike Bennewitz on Hildegrin's persistent presence at resurrections
  • Sean Michael Robinson on the coincidence of Severian happening upon Dorcas's body
  • Mike Farrar's theory about the voices Severian hears on the Lake of Birds
  • Fillipo di Paola on Agia's peacock print dress and the Islamic Garden of Eden story
  • Wolfe on the tBotNS being about "a man who was raised to do terrible things and who reforms himself from inside”
  • Michael Andre-Driussi's new article on Ultan's Library about the timeline of the Autarchy
  • Redditor Harshael on Gene Wolfe's female characters

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The Shadow of the Torturer Chapter 23, "Hildegrin"

Severian and Agia meet Dorcas and Hildegrin in the Garden of Endless Sleep. 

Links:

  • clew-ah-saw-nay or cloyzn-nay?
  • Curiositus Urthus: Old Man at the Gyoll = Old Man at Lake of Birds?
    • Old Man By the Gyoll
    • Among the Nenuphars
  • Octagonal Prisms (FB)
  • Octagonal Prisms (Wikipedia)
  • Michael Andre-Driussi's Reddit Ask Me Anything
  • Book of Gold Origin Story (Kalle Vilenius)
  • A Crush on Hildegrin?
  • The Blind Mole?

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The Shadow of the Torturer Chapter 22, "Dorcas"

Severian and Agia go to the Garden of Endless Sleep. Severian meets his grandfather who is looking for Grandma 'Cas. Then Severian falls into the lake and has an underwater encounter.

Links:

  • Cloisonné in wikipedia
  • Ultan's Library interviews Marc Aramini
  • Michael Andre-Driussi's Gene Wolfe's First Four Novels: A Chapter Guide
  • The Something Awful Form talks about Wolfe
  • Korkut Guie:
    • Origin story and Pratchett's Library of the Unseen University
    • Origin story and other Wolfean works
    • Attempts to transcribe all the episodes of the RRW podcast
  • Adam Roth asks if Ossipago and Dr Talos are the same person
  • Austin Beeman asks if The Book of New Sun could be the First Severian's wish fulfillment fiction
  • Gary Owen asks how many times Severian is regenerated

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Michael Swanwick, Nebula and Hugo award winner, talks about Gene Wolfe and his own writings.

Links:

  • Tor review of Shadows of the New Sun that contains Swanwick’s short story “The She-Wolf’s Hidden Grin”
  • "The Hagiography of St Dozois" by Michael Swanwick
  • "The Gardner Dozois You Didn’t Think You Knew" by Michael Swanwick
  • Tor review, “25 Years in the Making — City Under the Stars by Gardner Dozois and Michael Swanwick”
  • "The Iron Dragon’s Daughter" by Michael Swanwick
  • "The Dragon’s of Babel" by Michael Swanwick
  • "The Iron Dragon’s Mother" by Michael Swanwick
  • "Stations of the Tide" by Michael Swanwick
  • “The Eyeflash Miracles” and “Tracking Song” are included in “The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories”
  • “The Ziggurat” is collected in “Strange Travelers”
  • Carol Emshwiller on Wikipedia
  • Jack Dann on Wikipedia

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The Shadow of the Torturer Chapter 21, "The Hut in the Jungle"

Marc Aramini assists. In the Jungle Garden, Severian and Agia sit in a hut and listen to a conversation among the inhabitants.  

Links:

  • Craig posts a bibliography of Wolfe criticism
  • Father Inire, Lewis Carroll, and Rubber Bend
  • Baudrillard, Domnina as a horror story, catoptromanchy and Agia/Agillus
  • Jonathan Goodwin on captoptramancy
  • Father Inire's mirrors and Star Trek
  • Wolfe as a non-Star Trek fan
  • Plato, Socrates, Apollodorus, and Glaucon
  • Why the Pelerines's robes are red
  • "The Conciliator was a man: Severian the Lictor"
  • Thecla's Religion
  • The Forged Excruciation Orders Theory
  • How did Wolfe choose Thecla's name
  • The shape of the Botanical Gardens
  • The Crystal Palace - London
  • The Crystal Palace - New York
  • Time, dreams, Severian’s memories, and the Cumaean

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The Shadow of the Torturer Chapter 20, "Father Inire's Mirrors"

Severian and Agia walk the Jungle Gardens as Severian tells the story of Domnina and Father Inire's mirrors. Also, we discuss Inire and Sancha's cat. It all wraps up at the hut in the Jungle.

Links:

  • Filippo Di Paola on the Adamnian Steps
  • The Vision of Adamnan (wikipedia)
  • Filippo on the word "mensal" and on the term "monach" and the connection between Terminus Est and the Claw.
  • Redditor dergrimnebulin's First Severian/Thea is Hyperion/Theia - Our Severian is his son, Helios
  • Redditor tbhidgafAboutReddit suggests that Thecla's excruciation was scheduled for Holy Katherine's Feast day but had to be delayed two days.
  • Redditor GoonHandz considers why the Pelerines cloaks are red
  • Oliver Byrne on the Claw as a "symbol that shapes us"
  • Redditor Lord_of_Atlantis that the purpose of the Claw is to GRAB Severian
  • Adam Nelles-Boulton on the SHAPE of the Claw
  • Brendan Greaves on discovered secret tunnels in Brazil
  • Michael Grant on the analeptic alzabo, on why Abia/Erebus didn't like the flood, on what are the Witches
  • Jérôme Laberge's Heirodules inspired music
  • Pelycosaur (wikipedia)
  • Wolfe Riddle in NYRSF

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The Shadow of the Torturer Chapter 19, "The Botanic Gardens"

Severian and Agia go to the Botanic Gardens discussing matters religious and historical. They visit the Sand Garden and then enter the Jungle Garden. 

Author and journalist, Fabio Fernandez, joins Craig and James for this chapter. Fabio has just completed a series for Tor.com entitled Rereading Wolfe. Nice title.

Links:

  • List of Fabio Fernandez's writings at Tor.com
  • Regarding the word "Matachin"
  • Who Are the Witches?
  • GoonHandz about the Claw and McGuffins on Reddit
  • Jordon Flato about the Claw on FB

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Severian and Agia take off for the Botanical Gardens. They get in a street race. They crash into the Cathedral of the Pelerines. The Claw goes missing.

Links:

  • CS Lewis Discusses God and Time and the First, Second, and Third Persons of the Trinity in ways that, James thinks, are especially applicable to the First and Second Severian:

  • 4:3 Time and Beyond Time

  • 4:4 Good Infection

  • Samuel R. Delaney about the blow up over Gene Wolfe's teaching methods at Clarion

  • Mike Bennewitz shares his theory about elevation and the hierarchy of Severian's advesaries
  • Charles Gillingham stirs it up about the First Severian on FB
  • Bruce Pennington vs Mandelorian?
  • Gene Wolfe Fan Fiction

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Severian meets Agilus in the rag shop. He gets a challenge to a duel. Agia agrees to take him to get the flower he'll need to fight it and give him tips.

Links:

  • Robert Borski's theory of Severian's family tree
  • Lee Berman's theory on Severian's family tree (again)
  • Patrick Chesney on UP-Down confusion on FB
  • Sean Michael Robinson re: Thackery on FB
  • "Eating the Fantastic" podcast by Scott Edelman with Michael Dirda
  • "Hoof and Hide" blog on the Marc Aramini episode on the Long/Short Sun
  • Talking Goonhandz about the Marc Aramini episode on Long/Short Sun
  • Catherine Theory by DrEvil1380

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The Shadow of the Torturer Chapter 16, "The Rag Shop"

Severian has breakfast with Baldanders and Talos and meets a skinny waitress. Then Severian bids Baldanders & Co fare-thee-well and encounters Agia in front of her rag shop.

Links:

  • Philip Bonner on FB
  • Mike Farrar theories: First Baldanders Theory and Whorl=Yesod Theory
  • Brett Loftesnes on which side of the continent Nessus is on
  • Bsharp on Dionysus the Fox
  • David Stockhoff on Dionysus and the theater

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The Shadow of the Torturer Chapter 15, "Baldanders"

Severian's first night on his own. He stops at an inn and gets an interesting bed partner.

Links:

  • The Decade-Long Quest For Shadow of the Colossus’ Last Secret
  • The Unseen Lands of Dark Souls and Dark Souls Lore - Do the Souls Games Share A Universe?
  • Ubikcan Reddit theory
  • Mavoris13 Reddit post on the First Severian theory
  • Disagreers
    • DrEvil1380
    • bsharporflat
    • Stephen Gordon one and two
  • Nigel's comments one and two
  • Calum MacPherson's one and two
  • Judge Dee Mysteries

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THIS IS SIDE TWO OF THIS EPISODE

This is Side TWO of our discussion with Mantis about his theory regarding Severian's description of the First Severian in the final chapter of Citadel of the Autarch. 

If you haven't listened to Side ONE, go HERE first.

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Listener comments ends at 35m25s

If you don't want to listen to the listener feedback at the beginning, skip to there., 

No specific chapter

This is Side One of our discussion with Mantis about his theory regarding Severian's description of the First Severian in the final chapter of Citadel of the Autarch. 

Because Severian's reveal as Mantis's frames it has the potential to affect every chapter of "The Book of the New Sun" there's no really good chapter in which to bring it up. So we placed it here upon Severian's exile, just before Severian is thrust into the wider world. 

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  • Craig's Reddit post on the Megatherians
  • Goonhandz Reddit posts: one two and three and an interpretation of Eschatology and Genesis here
  • Stephen Frug's comments
  • Nigel's discussion of connectivity between tBotNS and A Voyage To Arcturus

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Marc and James agree about a lot regarding the plot of the Books of the Long & Short Sun. 

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The Shadow of the Torturer Chapter 14, "Terminus Est"

Severian gets is sword and leaves the Citadel for the North.

Matthew Keeley assists.

Links:

  • Matt Keeley's "How Gene Wolfe Starts a Story (And Where to Start Reading)"
  • Matt Keeley's "The Best Way to Approach the Book of the New Sun"

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The Shadow of the Torturer Chapter 13, "The Lictor of Thrax"

Severian is imprisoned for showing mercy. Palaemon offers him an alternative to being executed.

Links:

  • Palaemon's timeline

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The Shadow of the Torturer Chapter 12, "The Traitor"

Thecla faces her excruciation.

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The Shadow of the Torturer, Chapter 11, "The Feast"

Severian is elevated to journeyman at the Feast of Holy Katharine.

Links:

  • Bsharp's Severian Family Tree theory

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A reading of Gene Wolfe's "War Beneath the Tree" with Joan Gordon, Michael Andre-Driussi, Marc Aramini, and Nigel Price.

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  • "The Dirty Dozen Main Theme" by Frank De Vol
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The Shadow of the Torturer, the rest of Chapter 10, "The Last Year"

Severian and Thecla continue talking all summer and fall. Palaemon and Gurloes prepare to induct Severian into the Guild as a journeyman. 

By the end of this chapter, we have progressed a bit less than 18 months into this story.

Links:

  • Nigel Price - Gene Wolfe Correspondence
  • Jordon Flato's post on Attention
  • Curiositus Urthus: The Guild of Torturers are Dominicans

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The Shadow of the Torturer Chapter 8, 9, and the start of 10, "The Conversationalist", "The House Azure", and "The Last Year"

Severian begins his duties to keep Thecla company and then goes to the House Azure.

Links:

  • Seventeen Redux
  • Nigel Price's "Great Expectations" Allusions 1, 2, 3
  • Stephen Frug discussions
  • Curiositus Urthus: Thecla and Thea are khaibit cousins

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  • Intro from "The Alligator", Annihilation soundtrack by Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow
  • Errata from "It's a Mistake" by Men At Work
  • Outro from "Image" by T Bone Burnett
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The Shadow of the Torturer Chapter 7, "The Traitress"

Severian meets Thecla and has a conversation with Gurloes. 

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  • Outro from "My Little Room" by Tony Brent
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Michael Andre-Driussi, author of "Lexicon Urthus" talks about his new reference for "The Book of the New Sun" and other matters.

"Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun: A Chapter Guide" is available for purchase on November 11, 2019 at:

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  • Google Play Books

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  • Intro from "The Alligator", Annihilation soundtrack
  • Outro from "Black Beans" by Glen Flowers and the Strangers
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The Shadow of the Torturer Chapter 6, "The Master of the Curators"

Severian meets Master Ultan and Cyby. Checks out four books for a new client.

Links

  • The Devil and Master Ultan

  • The Cube is a Father Inire Mirror

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  • Intro from "The Alligator", Annihilation soundtrack
  • Outro from "Can’t Tell a Book by Lookin’ at the Cover" by Bo Diddly
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Nigel Price, co-founder of Ultan's Library, talks about the Library of Nessus and Master Ultan

People and Things

Ultan's Library: https://ultan.org.uk

Fractals: Fractals exhibit similar patterns as you zoom in closer. This is called self similarity, expanding symmetry and unfolding symmetry -- exactly the same at every scale.

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  • Intro from "The Alligator", Annihilation soundtrack
  • Outro from "Ring Them Bells" by Bob Dylan from "Bob Dylan Live Concert in Japan" (1997)
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Joan Gordon, Gene Wolfe scholar, talks about Gene Wolfe's career and works, the Library of Nessus, and Master Ultan

Also, appended to the end of this episode (1:04 mark) is a hidden track where James shares a comprehensive theory of "The Fifth Head of Cerberus."

People and Things discussed in this episode:

  • Joan Gordon: http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?24015
  • Books by Robert Borski: Solar Labyrinth, The Long and the Short of It, and multiple chapbooks from Sirius Fiction
  • Peter Wright: http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?24015
  • Brian Attebury: http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?10790
  • Bill Johnson: http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?11198
  • Jose Luis Borges: https://www.famousauthors.org/jorge-luis-borges
  • Nigel Price is the co-founder of Ultan's Library: https://ultan.org.uk/
  • The Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop http://clarion.ucsd.edu/
  • Joanna Russ review of Operation Aries: https://sffbooksonmars.blogspot.com/2011/06/retro-review-joanna-russ-on-gene-wolfes.html
  • Klein bottle: Informally, it is a one-sided surface which, if traveled upon, could be followed back to the point of origin while flipping the traveler upside down. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klein_bottle

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  • Intro from "The Alligator", Annihilation soundtrack
  • Outro #1:From "I've Got a Theory" from "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
  • Outro #2: From "Mr. Roboto" by Styx
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The Shadow of the Torturer Chapter 5, "The Picture Cleaner and Others"

Drotte and Roche are elevated to journeymen on the Feast of St Katharine.

Severian seizes the role of Captain of the Apprentices.

Severian meets Raucho and Rudesind at the picture galleries.

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  • Outro from "Picture In A Frame" by Tom Waits
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The Shadow of the Torturer Chapter 4, "Triskele"

Severian gets a dog and meets the mysterious Valeria for the first time.

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  • Intro from "The Alligator", Annihilation soundtrack
  • Outro from "The Sun Don't Shine on the Same Dog Every Day" by Porter Wagoner
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The Shadow of the Torturer Chapter 3, "The Autarch's Face"

Extended Errata and an extensive discussion on symbols in The Book of the New Sun.

New Curitas Urthas items from John Clute and Michael "Mantis" Andre-Druissi.

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  • Intro from "The Alligator", Annihilation soundtrack
  • Errata from "You Was Wrong" by Freddie King
  • Clip from "The Frug" by Rilo Kiley
  • Outro from "It's Only Money (Part 1)" by Argent
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The Shadow of the Torturer Chapter 2, "Severian"

Where in Urth is Nessus? Does Severian really die in the Gyoll? Why does this chapter have two sections? Errata from Ch. 1 and "Curiositas Urthus" featuring a name well known to Urth List subscribers.

Links

  • Alice K Turner explains her theory that Nessus is Alexandria, Egypt here: http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0001/0002.shtml
  • And defends it here: http://www.urth.net/whorl/archives/v0004/0251.shtml

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  • Intro from "The Alligator", Annihilation soundtrack
  • Errata from "Wrong" by The Music Machine
  • Outro from "City Drops into the Night" by the Jim Carroll Band
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The Shadow of the Torturer Chapter 1, "Resurrection and Death"

James and Craig dive right in and try not to get buried in a foggy graveyard of confusion with a discussion of Shadow of the Torturer's first chapter and epigraph. Curiositas Urthus: Who was that livid, dead woman?

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Intro from The Alligator, Annihilation soundtrack

Outro from "I Remember It Well" by Maurice Chevalier, from "Gigi"

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Introduction 0:0 Who, What, and Why?

In our very first episode, we talk about what we hope to accomplish, why we chose New Sun, how our approaches to Wolfe do and don't correspond, and generally introduce ourselves. (Short episode...and if you want to jump right to the good stuff, go to Episode 1:1.)

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  • Outro from "Back in the Saddle" by Aerosmith
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