THE DEEP ONES: "The Arimaspian Legacy" by Gene Wolfe

"The Arimaspian Legacy" by Gene Wolfe.

Discussion begins November 27, 2024.

First published in The Arimaspian Legacy (1987).



BIBLIOGRAPHY

https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?333001

SELECTED PRINT VERSIONS

Starwater Strains

ONLINE VERSIONS

https://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/arimaspian.htm

ONLINE AUDIO VERSIONS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZPgBjylEVA

MISCELLANY

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Wolfe
https://www.wolfewiki.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Stories.SlowChildrenAtPlay
https://nebulas.sfwa.org/grand-masters/gene-wolfe/
https://www.depauw.edu/sfs/interviews/wolfe46interview.htm
https://tinyurl.com/4una95pz

I feel a bit remiss in not having commented on this one despite having nominated it, but I haven't gotten round to re-reading it - reading time has been in very short supply lately.

I am likewise tardy on this story, which I do intend to read, being a Gene Wolfe fan. But it has been hard for me to make time for online reading, and that's the only way I have access to it right now.

Is David being undone by the rising sun a metaphor for God punishing those who presume to attain all knowledge and power?

And what to make of the bizarre physical description of David's book?

Not having read Wolfe's There Are Doors, I wondered how much of one's appreciation for the story might be caught up in familiarity with that novel. It left me with a pleasing sense of amusing distraction and a vague awareness of larger import than is evident in the story itself.

>4 RandyStafford: I like that idea of metaphor. I am not sue if its meant to be G-d, the gods, nature itself?