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![]() ![]() I can’t put myself through any more of this. The simplest explanation I can come up with (apart from the one in which Gene Wolfe fails to proof the final draft of Claw properly) is that Severian is talking about the play 3Das it was performed3D rather than as it existed as a whole. Each volume contains two of the original novels. Language Label Description Also known as English: The Claw of the Conciliator. I found the book confusing, boring and filled with characters that I could never bring myself to care about and couldn’t keep straight long enough to try. RT WeirdFriction: Ive finally collected Gene Wolfes 'Book of the Long Sun' in the form of this two-volume omnibus set from the 90s. The Claw of the Conciliator (Q3209610) From Wikidata. ![]() ![]() He teams up with some rebels for awhile and may or may not be trying to escape from them because there may or may not be something nefarious going on. He has a new friend, completely out of nowhere. He sees ghosts but that might have been a dream or a hallucination. The story is told in the first person by Severian who is in possession of a legendary artifact that he got from somewhere and that glows really brightly but doesn’t seem to actually do other things. Gene Wolfe’s prose is so dense it is hard to tell what the story is about and even harder to tell why I should care. I have heard great things about Gene Wolfe’s Book of the New Sun, which technically is actually science fiction in the very far distant future but stays firmly rooted on the ground with swords and horses and caves and ghosts. I’m beginning to think that all the ‘classics’ of fantasy are a lie. ![]()
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