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... New Sun: The sequel to 'The Book of the New Sun'", which is not the canonical title for that work. Oddly enough, Shadow and Claw recommends the same book (Urth) but displays it by its canonical title. (Though in this case, it's rolled up into the series.)

... the original ending. 3. Gene Wolfe's novels are rich with allusive names and events. I remember when I first read The Book of the New Sun, and encountered a man named Baldanders, I was alerted to expect Borges-like goings on, and I was not disappointed. Wolfe uses incidents drawn ...

... picking just ten and might give you a different list tomorrow. But here's today's list: The Lord of the Rings The Book of the New Sun A Confederacy of Dunces Freddy and Fredericka The Eyre Affair All Mortal Flesh The Universe is a Green Dragon If on a Winter's Night ...

... by August Kleinzahler. I like music. I am hopeful that Mr. Kleinzahler will help me understand how and why. Shadow and Claw and Sword and Citadel both by Gene Wolfe and altogether comprising The Book of the New Sun. I loved science fiction at the age boys are supposed to ...

... it was excellent. I actually didn't like the first half of The Wizard because it didn't focus on Able. I read The Book of the New Sun (all 5 volumes) last December for the first time, and it was great. I'm planning a reread this December. I recently read There Are Doors which was ...

Shadow and Claw

OK, that list was way too long! I've deleted it. If anyone wants the alphabetized list, tell me and I'll send it to you.

... latest book, and I can see it's going to add to my TBR list! I have Imperium by Kapuscinski waiting to be read and loved The Shadow of the Sun. I'm 270 pages through it and really, really loving it. I'm exactly his target audience - I have a good maths and statistics background, but am ...

... reading Dostoyevsky. I found this group from a post in Snobs. It pays to advertise! As far as my relationship to The Book of the New Sun, I read the first section and found it too fantastic for my taste and the sense of ennui is stifling. I think Wolffe may have been aiming there, but ...

... spy on, Lit. Snobs, or a host of other locales. Happy to have you aboard, geneg! And is it really true you can't stand The Book of the New Sun?

The Fifth Head of Cerberus is a classic, although as much because it is a literary puzzle as for anything else. The Book of the New Sun is also very good, although having reread it recently for a LT group read I found it less satisfying than I'd remembered it. The Book of the Long Sun is ...

... Persepolis 959--General history of Asia; Southeast Asia: The Trouser People 960--General history of Africa: The Shadow of the Sun 970--General history of North America: 973--General history of North America; United States: The Spanish-American War and President McKinle ...

For my money, Gene Wolfe's original Book of the New Sun Quadrilogy is the most solid of any scifi/fantasy series (i.e. no "where the blazes did that come from?" in later volumes), probably because Wolfe wrote all four volumes before publishing any of it. But Urth of the New Sun, which I think ...

... of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe - read as part of an omnibus named Severian of the Guild which contains the books of The Book of the New Sun series. Perhaps I am to old for it. Perhaps I should make allowences as it is a 'classic'. I don't know. But this book did absolutely nothing for ...

Interesting. Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun is the only novel in which I've encountered a character named Hethor, and it has beings whom some view as angels. But that sentence is not from it. Oh well.

... of series types, and you have to decide which kind you're writing. At one end, there's The Lord of the Rings and The Book of the New Sun, which are not actually series but multi-volume novels. In this type of books, you're expected to read in order and to be ready to start a new ...

Category 6: Fantasy Masterworks Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe Time and the Gods, Lord Dunsany The Worm Ouroboros, E.R. Eddison Tales of the Dying Earth, Jack Vance Little, Big, John Crowley The Chronicles of Amber, Roger Zelazny Viriconium, M. John Harrison The Con ...

I just finished Shadow and Claw, and since I have no desire to read the second omnibus so quickly after, I am about to start Lavinia instead. I am feeling a little guilty about ignoring my non-fiction pile though.

... the Rings Experience shows I can re-read parts of this every couple of years. Haven't gone end-to-end in quite a while. The Book of the New Sun Every time I read it, I notice new stuff or solve another of Wolfe's mysteries. The collected Works of William Shakespeare I can finally get ...

Teelgee, Cmt, and KimB - Tonight I bought a copy of The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski. It does seem like a good book on Africa. Now I would still like to find something with lots of pictures and trivia(ish) information - like I might find in a kids' Dorling Kindersley book about Afric ...

#92 and #94 - Terri beat me to it! I loved The Shadow of the Sun. Kapuscinski was a journalist in Africa for many years, and the book covers many different countries.

... a nation, that if you want to grow something you proscribe it. Psychologically, America is a mess. Jim, I tried to read The Book of the New Sun for the SF group read some months back. I got through the first book but could not proceed. I just couldn't face slogging my way through more sludge. ...

Ummm, Gene Wolfe plays around with lots of old words in his Book of the New Sun and sequels, to the point where you might think he was making up his own language, but it's not erotic and I'm pretty sure she'd mention the fantasy-ish elements. (Okay, technically it's sci-fi, but society has ...

Pam, good review of The Shadow of the Sun. Liked the sound of the Mr. Whicher book too. AND the Margery Sharp! You're dangerous!!!

If you've any interest in Africa you must read Ryszard Kapuscinski's The Shadow of the Sun. Can't recommend it highly enough, 5*. Reviewed here. Have been waiting here for eons for the touchstones to load, but no joy. ...

Sword & Citadel: The Second Half of 'The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe. I forced myself through the first book, Shadow and Claw, in the hopes that this series warranted all the hype. After making it 3/4 of the way through Sword and Citadel I stopped and, although I NEVER stop reading a ...

... easier read, I thought LHoD was deeper and more significant in terms of introducing social science to SF. I also don't see The Book of the New Sun, which if I remember correctly just sneaks by the time criterion, and is one of the finest pieces of writing that SF has produced. How about The Dy ...

... I plan to re-read over the next year, a little at a time. My shortlist for the moment is: Dune and Dune Messiah The Book of the New Sun Hyperion Snow Crash I want to read books that I have not read since the initial read at least 15 years ago or so, but which I have ...

Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe Accelerando by Charles Stross Appleseed by John Clute The Maze of Death by Philip K. Dick Feersum Endjinn by Iain M. Banks Bugs by John Sladek The Dying Earth by Jack Vance Gateway by Frederik Pohl Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson Blue Ma ...

Donaldson is the first author I thought of when I read the OP. Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun also has a challenging vocabulary, but for a different reason: he's a describing life on an Earth millions of years in the future--though all the language that he's "invented" for the story are all ...

... Abbey Before Night Falls by Renaldo Arenas The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh by Van Gogh River Town by Peter Hessler The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski The Places in Between by Rory Stewart The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca We ...

Strong agreement with ogodei in #4 on the excellence of Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun as a first-person narrative. The narrator is unreliable, so we have to work a bit to figure out what's really going on. My theory is that Wolfe is teaching us how to read carefully. One of my ...

... doesn't seem to get the significance of anything that's going on around him other than how it accents his outfit. The Book of the New Sun series by Gene Wolfe probably uses first person to the best effect I've ever seen. If you want to know what's going on you are forced to read around Sev ...

... Illustrated Man--Ray Bradbury Left Hand of Darkness--Ursula LeGuin Ender's Game--Orson Scott Card (again for teens) Book of the New Sun--Gene Wolfe Farenheit 451--Ray Bradbury Y:The Last Man--Brian K. Vaughn (It's, horror of horrors, a comic book. I know, kick me right off ...

... of some older books that many hold in high regard. As a result I went digging this morning to pull out Snow Crash, the Book of the New Sun , Star Maker and a few others. They have been added to my already too big TBR books stacks. I am really hesitant to recommend these to new readers ...

... of Cerberus. Like most of Gene Wolfe's works, it requires a bit of work to keep involved (though certainly not as much as The Book of the New Sun I mentioned above). I find him a very subtle writer - there is a lot going on behind the words he writes, and it is a great experience to let that ...

... context and the inclusion of science, math and logic as "natural philosophy." For some reason, it put me in mind of The Book of the New Sun, though the books are quite different, in theme and in style. I do not think that Anathem was his best work (unless a second read of The Baroque ...

... to read (and review) every book nominated for the major awards in the genre. Gateway by Frederik Pohl The Book of the New Sun (all four books, and probably The Urth of the New Sun too) by Gene Wolfe The Ophiuchi Hotline by John Varley The ...

> 149 Kapuściński is one of my favorite writers -- do try to read The Shadow of the Sun -- an insightful, beautifully written book affording us a glimpse into some little-known facts about the continent.

Yes thanks, but I have no ideas. Personally I have Halting state, Book of the new sun and Century rain (and a Chanur omnibus, but I really don't expect there to be another C.J. Cherryh read, no I haven't read that yet) in my immediate TBR pile, but I'm up for suggestions.

cmt, no you didn't mention this to me already. I haven't read The Shadow of the Sun yet, but I will soon. I was in an academic environment before I went to med school, working in a research lab at NYU Medical Center. I enjoyed working there and the people I worked with, including the head of ...

Kidzdoc, have you read The Shadow of the Sun too? It's wonderful, if you haven't already read it and want to read more. I found the malaria chapter fascinating too - it's the only thing I've read about it. I have his Shah of Shahs and The Emperor (about Haile Selassie) waiting patiently. ...

Moved this tally to post #2.

... stopped after 50 pages and am waiting to resume @ some point soon. I started too soon after slogging through Gene Wolfe's book of the new sun and the beginning was too reminiscent of the Wolfe at the time.

... (finishing up from December) was The Urth of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe. Very good, and it explained a good deal about The Book of the New Sun. I'm going to have to reread the whole thing at some point. I followed that up with The Warded Man for LT Early Reviewers. It was good, and ...

... azzard The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski Great Expectations by Charles Dickens The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz Death in Rome by Wolfgang Koeppen

Oooh - I haven't read this one of his yet, but I loved The shadow of the sun. Have you read it? I have Imperium on my bookshelves waiting for me.

... Marai 3.5* The Radetsky March Joseph Roth 5* 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth Xiaolu Guo 3.5* The Shadow of the Sun Ryszard Kapuscinski 5* Le Bal Irene Nemirovsky 3.5* The Bass Saxophone Josef Skvorecky 4.5* 9. Miscellaneous and Overflo ...

There's a two-headed creature in Gene Wolfe's pathetic The Book of the New Sun.

... nitsyn Hunger by Knut Hamsun Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie The Yellow Wind by David Grossman The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski

... this a boffo read in German, but not so much in English. The science fiction group read yielded a clunker, IMHO, in The Book of the New Sun. The protagonist was too laconic and the ennui apparent in the text just made me not want to care one whit, so I stopped reading after the first ...

... Catholic stuff in Pirate Freedom, and Cthulhu stuff in An Evil Guest. Is anyone interested in joining me in reading The Book of the New Sun? Going to start soon...

... their Lives: Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon in 1948 by Lance Morrow and The Emperor by Ryszard Kapuscinski because I loved Shadow of the Sun. No more books for a while. But I said that last time... oh well, at least they were second hand.

... several other books higher than Foundation or Ender, including The Left Hand of Darkness, The Stars My Destination, and The Book of the New Sun.

... Alasdair Gray has been on my "authors I need to get around to reading " list for a long time now. Vis a vis Shadow and Claw, I read it because a colleague (and a quite conservative one at that) recommended the series. I was fascinated because after reading the book, I found it ...

#27: I see what you mean re Shadow and Claw. I don't recall anything particularly gruesome in The Fifth Head of Cerberus, but maybe my standards have become debased ... A couple more nudges: Lanark by Alasdair Gray and The Vintner's Luck by Elizabeth Knox. The latter is by an NZ writer, ...

... froze or else I had to beetle off to battle with dust and Republicans. >19 timjones, I've read one book by Gene Wolfe The Shadow and the Claw - something to do with torturers and really bizarre sadomasochistic forms of death. It turned my stomach a bit, so I passed it own. >20 cmt, I ...

... ns Royal Road to Fotheringay The Captive Queen of Scots The Sixth Wife Doomsday Book by Connie Willis The Book of the New Sun: Volume 1: Shadow and Claw by Gene Wolfe The Book of the New Sun: Volume 2: Sword and Citadel by Gene Wolfe Lovely copies of the Gormen ...

... ains Royal Road to Fotheringay The Captive Queen of Scots The Sixth Wife Doomsday Book by Connie Willis The Book of the New Sun: Volume 1: Shadow and Claw by Gene Wolfe The Book of the New Sun: Volume 2: Sword and Citadel by Gene Wolfe Lovely copies of the Gormen ...

So, I was wondering whether you ever got through the Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe. I read the series years ago and have very strong images of the themes and characters. I was considering rereading the books now, as an adult, rather than a teen reader and wondered how you felt about the ...

#16 MusicMom41 -- my book club read The Shadow of the Sun a few months ago. Fascinating reading. The essays are from all over Africa, and span many years.

... would like to read this one--that's good enough for me. I will read it, too. Category: memoir Kapuscinski, Ryszard: The Shadow of the Sun (Congo—late 1950s) This one was a real find--written by a Polish journalist who was on assignment in the Congo at the time Poisonwood Bible was set! ...

SF: Book of the New Sun, Left Hand of Darkness,The Stars My Destination Fantasy: The Odyssey, {Lord of the Rings, The Worm Ouroboros Lit: Huck Finn, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler Romance: The Lions of al-Rassan Humor: A Confederacy of Dunces, Freddy and Fredericka humor ...

... group read) Butcher, Tim: Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart (Congo, 2000) Kapuscinski, Ryszard: The Shadow of the Sun (Congo—late 1950s) Jeal, Tim: Livingston (biography) (no touchstone) Jeal, Tim: Stanley: the impossible life of Africa's greatest explorer (biogr ...

I know it's really science-fiction, but the Claw of the Concilliator in Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun is a magical jewel. Also, didn't Janny Wurts's Cycle of Fire books have quasi-magical crystals? (Also, am I the only one totally flashing back to The Tough Guide to Fantasyland?)

... 3 of Book 1 of Kristin Lavransdatter. I am also reading The Name of the Wind for another group read and just finished The Book of the New Sun and The Poisonwood Bible. It has been hard reading so many books at once, but then today I picked up The Thirteenth Tale. So I guess, I will ...

... story about how he'd come to be so rigid, but then very little about what he really thought. Musicmom41, I loved the Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski - hmmm, touchstone not working. It's about post-colonial Africa, and beautifully written. He wa s a journalist there for ...

I'm taking The Book of the New Sun off my list after the recent group read. I no longer like it as much as I did or thought I still would. See here. Now I have to think of another title for the list...

... House (I am only halfway through this one), The Quest for the Northwest Passage (pretty near the beginning of this one), The Book of the New Sun (halfway through this one), and The Name of the Wind and Kristin Lavransdatter (neither of which I have started yet). Oh, and The Poisonwood Bib ...

... on friendship. 107. The Secret Scripture, Sebastian Barry, 2008 Booker shortlist 2008. I liked it. 108-111. The Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe Science fiction/fantasy which documents over four books Severian’s rise to Autarch from the guild of Torturers, a relic of an ...

I highly recommend Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun and The Book of the Long Sun series. They are hard fantasy, with some very interesting historical aspects mixed in. It's very different from Erikson, Bakker et. al. but my most recommended books after Erikson. Donaldson's books are ...

... Scalzi's The Ghost Brigades because I enjoyed Old Man's War. Also having a great time re-reading Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun for the SF group read over here.

... The Aunt Dimity book I got as a result of recommendations on LT. It was a fun light mystery/romance. Now back to The Book of the New Sun for the group read!

... the next Dresden book. Entertaining, but like a light snack - tasty, but it won't sustain you. I think I'll pick either The Book of the New Sun or Century Rain next.

... not all that well written. Just started The Ghost Brigades, Scalzi's follow-up to Old Man's War. Also re-reading The Book of the New Sun for the SF group read. Waiting for the library to deliver my Laura Lippman book for my monthly club there.

... size of a house arriving at your door and a very disgruntled delivery person sweating outside. 228:richardderus, I loved Shadow and Claw and Sword and Citadel so you have to post your review so we get your thoughts on these books after you're done with them. Nerd Gone Wild by Vicki Lewi ...

... the novel. Fast Forward by Eric Spitznagel—a memoir of a screenwriter’s descent into porn. Cain’t wait! Shadow and Claw and Sword and Citadel by Gene Wolfe—for my Group Reads-Sci Fi forum. Never found it in me to read these two before, so I’m looking forward to ...

... target=_blank>here. We just started, in fact I have not yet started but should soon, The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe. I find that if I limit myself to reading one book at a time, I can get my books read in good fashion. If I try to read more than ...

I finally finished Blackbird, Farewell, my less-than-superb ER book from last month. Am having a great time re-reading The Book of the New Sun for the SF group discussion, and have also just started The Anubis Gates based on favorable LT mentions.

Aren't the Orb omnibus editions Shadow And Claw and Sword and Citadel available either?

... the ball named Casanunda) What can I say? Granny Weatherwax comes through again, with lots of fun on the way. Now, back to The Book of the New Sun.

... humor. I'm about to start my ER book, Blackbird, Farewell, which looks pretty juicy. But I'm also about to re-read The Book of the New Sun for a group read, which is exciting because it's a favorite and (IMHO) still the finest example of literary spec fic. Come on over and join us! (I ...

... Reads - Sci Fi group I have set up discussion threads for each of the four books that make up The Book of the New Sun.

I got busy and lost track of time. Polls are closed. The winner is: The book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe I'll set us up some discussion threads. Remember, their is no time limit, but in a month or so, as people get finished we'll do this again, if their is still interest.

... New Space Opera and Vonnegut. I have about 15 years to fill in and have missed some of the older classics like The Book of the New Sun. Hi everyone.

All will be revealed? When? Where? ... oh, right. This is the internet. Although I voted for The Book of the New Sun all the other options look appetizing. I'm for reading them all.

Here's a link of relevance should The Book of the New Sun win the vote.

Isn't it, well, cheating to include series as one book? The Book of the New Sun is a single book split into four for publication. But Hyperion and it sequels can't be considered like that.

Even more reason to pick The Book of the New Sun: I've just been given the new edition of Lexicon Urthus to review for Interzone...

... 21 Chekhov's Journey, Ian Watson 23 Pavane, Keith Roberts 24 A Time of Changes, Robert Silverberg 25 The Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe

... two, and Simmons book is no slouch for page count either: Hyperion - 482 pages A Fire Upon the Deep - 613 pages The Book of the New Sun 260 + 250 + 298 + 313 = 1121 pages As a side note observation - I can always guage pretty accurately the age of a SF book on my shelves by the ...

... to join in our read. The five possible books that we get to choose from are: A Fire Upon the Deep, Vernor Vinge Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe Old Man’s War, John Scalzi Hyperion, Dan Simmons Farthing, Jo Walton Hope everyone else is as interested in ...

... Butler - Wild Seed Russell Hoban - Riddley Walker John Sladek - Roderick and Roderick at Random Gene Wolfe - The Book of the New Sun Philip Jose Farmer - The Unreasoning Mask Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle - Oath of Fealty Michael Bishop - No Enemy but Time John Calvin ...

I just finished Kapuscinski's The Shadow of the Sun and it catapulted itself to the top of my non-fiction-best list. It's in the first place about Africa, but it's also (sometimes explicit, sometimes between the lines) the story of Kapuscinksi's relationship with Africa. My second favorite: I ...

Seems a bit daft to vote for a series and the first book of that series. Can we assume all votes for The Book of the New Sun or The Shadow of the Torturer are for the latter, and a decision will be made at the end of the first book on whether to continue?

My votes: The Book of the new Sun The Shadow of the Torturer

My official votes: The Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe (or The Shadow of the Torturer) Farthing, Jo Walton

... again, i need motivation to finish one of his books...started a couple and for whatever reason gave up. But I WILL finish The Book of the New Sun if selected!!

After a little research, I wholeheartedly endorse iansales's recommendation of Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun. It sounds both interesting and mature, and its themes suggest lots of juicy discussion topics.

... going to have to go back to his classics - Rendezvous with Rama, Childhood's End, The City and the Stars... The Book of the New Sun gets my vote. It's a book that will generated a lot of discussion. And reading it at a relatively leisurely pace shouldn't detratc from it.

... of Hyperion. But if we're in that sort of mood, then one book(s) I've been wanting to reread for ages is Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun, and I think that'd be fun to do as a group read.

... of Hed. Mary Gentle's city from Rats and Gargoyles. Moorcock's Melnibone. Gene Wolfe's Nessus from Book of the New Sun. Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere. Eric Van Lustbader's isolated underground colony in the Sunset Warrior novels. Peake's Gormenghast. M ...

... the Castle by Dodie Smith. I thought this book was fun and charming. 5. Enslaved by Ducks by Bob Tarte. 6. The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinsi. Another book club book. A collection of essays abuot Africa from a celebrated Polish journalist. 7. Standing in the Rainb ...

... priest or two...but really, given the length of the books, not much magic at all! I also do not consider Gene Wolfe'sThe Book of the New Sun to be fantasy, but sci-fi. But it is definitely a genre-blend, so I can see why it might be considered fantasy to some. I'd also suggest "Americ ...

... Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture My new discovery: Camilo Jose Cela Would make a good read on trips The Shadow of the Sun The Man Who Ate Everything Something I would like everybody who lives in (big) cities to read: Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash ...

... TBR pile before being allowed to buy something... But now I couldn't hold off any longer > I bought (finally!) Ysabel, Shadow and claw and Polity Agent. I've heard a lot of good things about Book of the new sun (of which Shadow & Claw are no. one & two of five) and I've had it listed in ...

Gene Wolfe has a vocabulary that is genuinely frightening. While keeping a journal for my rereading of his Book of the New Sun, I've already filled 20 pages just with unknown words. As he says in the first appendix, despite the fantastical nature of the book, none of the them (except character ...

Sun and Shadow by Ake Edwardson

... find Kress' and Willis's short fiction a bit meh. And I hate Wolfe's short stories (but I like his novels and consider The Book of the New Sun a classic work). I've not read the Shepard yet, although I do rate his fiction very highly.

... and Fantasy Fans. Though off the top of my head, the king of literary fantasy is Gene Wolfe. He's most known for his Books of the New Sun. But his The Knight and The Wizard and Latro in the Mist are raved about too. You might also want to check out Stephen R. Donaldson's Chro ...

... hile. Hi, TheNun! Haven't personally read any Diderot, but I've heard and read good things. Personally still busy with Book of the New Sun. Every time I read it, I find new things...

... writing. I'm still busy with David Quammen's Monster of God. After that I'll be onto a reread of Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun - all four volumes of it!

... are the books I've tagged for time travel. My favorites are: The Book of the New Sun Slaughterhouse Five Fire Watch

... Later Clarke is a very different matter: avoid! For someone who's not afraid of a literary challenge, I suggest The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe. And there's always the "SF that isn't marketed as SF", such as The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell and The Handmaid's Tal ...

There isn't much magic, as far as I recall, in Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun, arguably one of the masterworks of modern fantasy. Been a long time since I read it, though. I should reread it sometime in the not too distant future. I would also second the recommendation for George R.R. Mar ...

Master Ultan, the head of the guild of librarians in Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun, is supposedly based on Borges. Some readers have speculated that his assistant, Cyby, is a projection of the author into the story.

... Shadow William Morris The Well at The Worlds End, The Wood Beyond the World I'll second Gene Wolfes Book of the New Sun series. They are great. I don't know how old Robert Holdstocks Mythago Wood series is, but it is bound to become a classic. Early Darkover by ...

... Short stories: Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges Non-Fiction: Seven Pillars of Wisdom by TE Lawrence, The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski, Pity the Nation by Robert Fisk, Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault... ...and I would, of course, ...

Nice list! I want to read Travels with Herodotus--I read The Shadow of the Sun this year and thought it was great.

... Iran: Persepolis 959--General history of Asia; Southeast Asia: The Trouser People 960--General history of Africa: The Shadow of the Sun 973--General history of North America; United States: The Spanish-American War and President McKinley 974--General history of North America--North ...

... of the Balkan Peninsula: The Balkan Express DS--History of Asia: The Trouser People DT--History of Africa: The Shadow of the Sun DU--History of Oceania: Coming of Age in Samoa E--History of America: The Fifties F--Local history of the United States and British, Dutch ...

... sense whether it's divided or not. #19 I believe the only copies of BotNS currently in print are the double volumes Shadow and Claw and Sword and Citadel, so you're right about that.

Shadow and Claw by Gene Wolfe. (or is this a fantasy read?)

... Home (author on my wishlist, but not this book) Child Garden (ditto) The Warrior's Apprentice (favorite author) Shadow and Claw (actually the first half of this was on my wishlist) I'll blame the printer that broke down and refused to print out my BookMooch wishlist for me to ...