Argh. Nice to see Schuyler Hernstrom's THUNE'S VISION. Was kind of hoping you were going to do a run-down on the tropes therein, for it is a master class in renovating them.
Wolfe is very parsimonious with lore. Key to New Sun is putting together the doled out pieces. New info usually subverts an expected trope. Results in unsettled feeling. Which is what Severian is often feeling. Thing after thing not going as expected.
It had just arrived in the mail earlier that morning and I wanted to include as a nice piece of the set but had not yet dug in. The only stories I had read thus far were Images of the Goddess, The Gift of the Ob-men, The Space Witch, and the Tragedy of Thurn. You are 100% correct that his writing both honors and refreshes beloved tropes.
The man-chimp-pig thang has some relevance, here... I've know for years that y'all are hams.
Great show. Thanks for the laughs and thoughts.
Best secret heir trope I can think of is found in John Le Carré's Smiley trilogy. Secret traitor--but really secret heir.
Sounds interesting! We’ll def make a note
Argh. Nice to see Schuyler Hernstrom's THUNE'S VISION. Was kind of hoping you were going to do a run-down on the tropes therein, for it is a master class in renovating them.
We will 100% be revisiting both this conversation in general and that work specifically here soon.
Wolfe is very parsimonious with lore. Key to New Sun is putting together the doled out pieces. New info usually subverts an expected trope. Results in unsettled feeling. Which is what Severian is often feeling. Thing after thing not going as expected.
The stories in Thune's Vision, there on the table, is great at renovating tropes.
It had just arrived in the mail earlier that morning and I wanted to include as a nice piece of the set but had not yet dug in. The only stories I had read thus far were Images of the Goddess, The Gift of the Ob-men, The Space Witch, and the Tragedy of Thurn. You are 100% correct that his writing both honors and refreshes beloved tropes.
@@daniel_frazier What are the other two books? I can't quite read the titles.
@@btrenninger1 The Wolfe at the Door by Gene Wolfe and The Red Book Liber Novus by Carl Jung.
@@daniel_frazier Awesome thanks!
Because Renninger said I subscribed.
Audio is a tad low.
Thanks for letting us know! Will turn up