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Of course an astute reader will remember that earlier in the narrative Horn demonstrates his ability to do a perfect imitation of Silk. The short scene is then appreciated on another level after finishing Book of The Short Sun. A perfect little Wolfe moment.

The Cavern by Alister Hodge has real Alien vibes mixed with maybe The Cave. Really great read.

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Can you be in a darker room next time? This one was much too bright 😂

The moment you mentioned perspectives, I figured that's what it was.

I wish i could get this book before i check into rehab tomorrow. Oh well. Ill have it once i get back.

saw your first video a few weeks ago. running into you again, and gotta say i definitely would love to see what other book recs you may have

Are you insane? You keep recommending Gene's books, but you haven't said anything about what they're about. Your big reveal is a lousy gip. Gene Wolfe got another chump to talk about him. Too bad the books are crap. Not a mystery and certainly not a story. There's nothing cool about your post, you haven't figured anything out. You're lost and you don't know why, but you think you're close. Have a good trip... to nowhere. Without a plot how do you know if there are any plot holes?

I was kinda worried you were going to reveal something I totally missed, but luckily, the audiobooks don't include the editor's error. Thankfully, I also managed to pick it up the first time around, and it definitely was a totally mindblowing recontextualization. Gene was incredible, maybe the greatest author who ever lived for my money, certainly the best of our time. Great video, I'll be anxious for more. 😊

#useful❤ I have to read these again. I remember it as a long slog of amazing world building w/ unreliable narrator riffing on classic tropes to incredible reveals, over and over. But rereading Book of the New Sun has been so comfortable and rewarding, I haven't gone back. Thanks for the nudge.❤

“everyone’s doing long shots, everyone’s doing an unreliable narrator” im not finding the results to my question with search engines: is “long shot” a trope in fiction? does it mean macro world building? please explain. thanks

44:04 This is where I think you've misjudged Oberstein. He realizes he fucked up BADLY getting Kircheis killed like that, and that as Reinhard's light is dying without Siegfried, Oberstein, his shadow, is lessened in kind.

43:37 not in the royal family, in the family of the Prime Minister he'd just couped. Every male over 10, all girls and women get exiled.

In the novel, Obestein does not lie about the timetable, Reinhard simply agrees to it. It's his Truman moment. "How many soldiers is one civilian's life worth?" (Especially in an empire with Conscription)

22:25 the ice makes sense scientifically but has an issue of trivializing the other forms of battle.

The original OVA had a 2 episode pilot dub by Ocean up in canada, they did eps 52 and 53. No other eps were done. Oberstein was awful, Julian was Amuro, Schonkoph was Char(RIP), and Reinhard was Wufei from gundam wing.

Reinhard is absolutely a full admiral. A high admiral even. But Yang is a Commodore, someone who can serve as a staff officer to an Admiral or Fleet admiral, or command a "small" floatilla of a couple hundred ships.

An intersting novel note I was told about about the Alliance, and jjust humanity in general by the time of even Rudolph, 150 years before the Alliance fled the empire, Humanity was getting close to some sorta new race, and one of the offshoot gaidens of the OVA mentions a purebred asian being a rarity. So the various names may have little to do with race or ethnicity in the Alliance, Given both he OVA and new DNT anime have two very specifically black guys that seems to indicate the novel had them as black and it wasn't just an animation choice to set the alliance apart from the Empire visually.

I mean yeah the Empire does draw a bit from that, Rudolph got his start stopping the awful chaos of a decaying society.... And then decided to kill like 4-8 billion people over genetics. Though apparently in the novels humanity was already basically a blend of whoever survived past nuclear wars before he came to power with very few populations having a distinct race anymore so it was more the purging of the disabled than the racial angle. Not that either's better or worse, killcount is killcount I don't much care how you sort it once you hit those numbers. And that was *On top* of the sterilization, impatient evil bastard couldn't just feed *one* generation.

Great video!! I read the whole solar cycle last year and was blown away. Silk Horn Severian I love it all! Unfortunately I got the orb edition but honestly idk if I would have caught it.

Just found it secondhand 😊 so cool!

good silk! read book! i pirated the book (can't afford importing, cause of where i live) and lucked out. it was the correct 'unedited' version. and that part was explosive haha.

I got here from watching videos on The Three Body Problem... I have never heard of this series, but color me intrigued.

I have no idea who you are, or why you're gushing to a camera in a dark room. But well done. This is the most frenetic thing I've scene today, and wish you the best on your future video essays. Turn the light on next time.

Fishheads?

Nice one

Now I have to reread the entire series. Thanks.

Didnt know rasputin watched logh

I think the next seasons are gonna change your perspective about Oberstien immensely. He becomes my top 3 favourite characters after Yang and Reinhard. Tied with Mittermayer.

I'm 5 pages in and it's a solid 10/10 I can't help but feel this is going to be one of my favourite books.

I would say that the watch order is pretty widely accepted to be the 2 movies, episodes 3 to 110 then Gaiden. Since the remake isn’t finished there’s no point watching it even if someone would like it more though I personally think the og show is much better. The 2 movies are easily the best way to get into the show. Prequel one should be watched first obviously. There is also another movie called like golden wing or something but that isn’t that good so it’s not suggested you watch it.

Love the cutaways to the relevant clips lol youre right about the colossal set ups are the best part of LotGH. I am only like ~80 eps in but what a great series for you to get into, glad this stumbled onto my feed and i cant wait to hear more from you!

Great review Spoilers for season 1 Reinhard was already very relevant at ep 1 since he was already a High Admiral. Yang was just a commodore and he was serving as Staff Officer. The order of ranks is Commodore Rear admiral Vice admiral Admiral High Admiral (only exists in the Empire) Fleet Admiral Oberstein and Mittemeyer are amazing characters. Tip: a good way to memorize characters is by their hair, they all have unique hairstyles.

As a big Twin Peaks fan, FWWM has the teasing line about the Good Coop being trapped in the lodge. American Nightmare's Patrick Bateman inspired Mr. Scratch was very much playing on that concept.

Scoff, says I, Remedy superfan. Scoff!

I do love long form fiction and stories that connect to each other but it should have a solid story but i dont feel mcu story... Hate me but that's for not me.......Am a sucker for remedy played their every game till date.

I just discovered you and wow! I had to stay half way through because I haven't played Alan Wake 2 yet, but still. I can tell that everything you say comes from your heart and it's always nice to hear the opinion of someone who knows where the inspiration comes from. Remedy would make an awesome Silent Hill just to say that.

Solemn nod to everything you said here about the game - sometimes when you call something out as a "labor of love", you're extending credit against the artists' earnestness in order to excuse a lack of finesse, but here it's a labor of love that produced rarified gold. The care that went into every detail, every tonal choice, the unbelievable technical wizardry behind the custom Northlight engine that allowed for a game that looks like it probably belongs in a future console generation... it's truly a labor of love. The thing that took it from an A+ to a "what even are grades" was the masterful integration of multimedia. The live-action elements and the music so good I'm still playing it on loop were included in ways that just amplified everything. I remember the first time in Parliament Tower where you watch Alice's initial video, standing in front of the projector a bit and seeing some of her projected on Alan's tweed jacket shoulder, just experiencing a jaw drop. Remedy made me feel things with this work of art that I wasn't sure I was still able to feel - and I'm straddling gratitude and anticipation of where they go from here. I feel like they're hitting an exciting stride.

One thing that gets on my nerves is criticism of Severian's treatment of women in Claw of the Concilator (the second half of "Shadow and Claw" in new editions) We learn from the start he was raised in a Torturers Guild, but you thought he'd turn out to be nice and instantly redeemed? Maybe that works in "Twilight" stories, not in Book of the New Sun!

No it requires critical thought outside the text buy a new york times best seller....

There is no F-ing way i am re-reading this series. Theres too much that ive actually enjoyed the first time that i dont have time to re-read.

Please make more videos! There is more Wolfe zealots out there than you think.

Definitely look up the words. Because it's quite often impossible to infer from the context alone, not to mention the book is so dense with these words you will often come across multiple new ones in a paragraph. If you want to understand what's going on it's probably a smart idea to google most of them for their meaning in the book of the new sun specifically. The lexicon Urthus isn't necessary, but I got it on my phone after finishing the first book and it was a major help for the rest of the series. Also as someone that loves ereaders and all their great functionality, the dictionary on your kindle likely won't cut it. Many of these words are so obscure and old they aren't in many dictionaries, and the only way to find their meaning is to google them. Even then sometimes they are ultra obscure and not in the immediate results. Which is why the lexicon Urthus is so incredible. I still have to read the Urth of the new Sun. I plan to wait a bit for that and maybe reread the main books of the BOTNS right after

I love BOTNS.

I play a game called kenshi and saw this as a recommendation on the reddit. I listened to a bit, and it seemed interesting, but decided to click off since I am usually a reader. This overview has convinced me to buy copy and read it, this is probably the type of book I need to start enjoying fiction again. I would read Dune and all that, but I am young a busy and have decided to just get the spark notes and settle with youtube overviews, if I am going to start reading huge books again it's probably going to be in retirement.

Great video. Funny story: I grew up in Chile, but my mother is English. In Chile we didn't have access to that many books in English back then, so a few times a year my aunts in Australia would plunder the used bookstores there and send us a big boxful. They knew I loved fantasy and sci-fi, so they would always send a selection for me, but because they couldn't always find all the books in a particular series, I would often end up with a bunch of random books and just have to read them despite missing the other books in the series. In the case of 'The Book of the New Sun', it was 'The Sword of the Lictor'. So I actually read book three in the series twice before getting a copy of the other books years later. It's no surprise that there were many, many things I didn't understand. Now I just reread the whole series. Wasn't sure if I would still like it, but I really enjoyed it. I'm thinking about looking into the other Urth books, but I'm worried about being disappointed like when I started reading the Dune sequels and finally gave up, because I felt he lost the plot. Cheers!

The lexicon is great. The chapter guide by the same guy is lacklustre. It doesn't actually talk about themes, easter eggs etc it mostly focuses on literary inspirations for characters and things. And I'm pretty sure half of them are just speculation. I mean at times it was outright wrong. In others I discovered major things (like I discovered what I likely inspired the Mirrors of Father Irinire but that one, no one seems to realise or know. See "Kozyrev's mirror"). He's also wrong about who the missionaries are in the garden. He claims it's based on a book character. When it seems to be based on real life 19th century missionary Robert Moffat and his wife Mary who worked a lot with the Zulu. I found this myself suspecting they must have been based on real missionaries (Gene is a Catholic and these two have names from our time, read the Bible and are sitting in a tree hut with a Zulu medicine man) and found those two famous missionaries before I read the guy who wrote the chapter guide claim it's someone else that seems far more of a stretch.. Also wish some of the lexicon descriptions were better and more elaborate.

Anyone who likes Gene Wolfe should have a look at Eric Ortlund’s latest books. Titles are “Dead Petals” and “I Am the Doorway”