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Space!!

They can’t all be the greatest sci-fi novel of time, but imagine writing four perfect novels and then punching your face against the typewriter to write the fifth and you get urth of the new sun

my man is in his children of dune era

Ah shit, here we go again

I knew then that our old world of Urth had perished, even as
Dr. Talos had foretold, and that our boat floated not there,
but upon the waters of the Urth of the New Sun, which is
called Ushas.

“Have you come to take me?” he asked. It was no more than a whisper.
“I’m not Death,” I told him, “though I’ve been mistaken for him often enough.”
“I thought you were, sieur. You look so kind.”

“My task was far from complete, that the New Sun would not come unless i brought it, and that in bringing it i would be responsible for the destruction it would cause as well as the renewal of Urth. Thus every common man who brings a son into the world must feel himself responsible for his womans labor and perhaps her death, and with reason fears that the world will in the end condemn him with a million tongues.”

”Yours is a race of pawns,” Tzadkiel told me. “You move forward only, unless we move you back to begin the game again. But not all the pieces on the board are pawns.”

and it seems strange that in so great a time no words have been found for the pauses in speech, which have each their own quality, as well as a certain length.

Questionable start but once i got past 30% this has been incredible tbh

“Pain brought me to myself. Perhaps that is what pain is for, or perhaps it is only the chain forged to bind us to the eternal present, forged in a smithy we can but guess at, by a smith we do not know.”

“Now I was ready to strike at whoever sought to govern me, and if it were my fate that governed me, I would strike at that too.”

“HAVING CAST ONE MANUSCRIPT INTO THE SEAS OF TIME, I now begin again. Surely it is absurd; but I am not—I will not be’so absurd myself as to suppose that this will ever find a reader, even in me. Let me describe then, to no one and nothing, just who I am and what it is that I have done to Urth.”

I’m back home…

I would have laughed at those windows, if I had not been laughing at myself already so that I would not weep.

What is going on lol

Really enjoying it.

You are a hero, and heroes are always monsters.

Love the start of this. I hope I can give this the consistent attention it deserves.

“Imagine a man who stands before a mirror; a stone strikes it, and it falls to ruin all in an instant. And the man learns that he is himself, and not the mirrored man he had believed himself to be.”

“Pain brought me to myself. Perhaps that is what pain is for, or perhaps it is only the chain forged to bind us to the eternal present, forged in a smithy we can but guess at, by a smith we do not know.“

“I’ve seen his portrait and his bust. They’re in the Hypogeum Abscititious, where the Autarch put them when she married again. He looked like he’d cut your throat whistling.”
I felt that someone had cut my own.”

severian probably the funniest dude in the world man, im gonna miss him so much and New Sun cycle.

Time travel is wild

severian is actually jokes man

“One of the sun-browned rivermen seemed familiar; but I, who can forget nothing, sometimes have difficulty in bringing the quarry to bay in a memory that grows ever more vast.”

Are we in the past?

It’s almost too strange

gene wolfe makes my brain go brrrr

my brain go brrr

This book is wild