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Originally Posted by ShiftyEyedWaterboy
RIP Gene Wolfe. By far my favorite author and one of the GOATs of any genre, IMHO.
Wolfe went on to write over 30 novels, with his best best-known work, The Book of The New Sun, spanning 1980-1983. The series is a tetralogy set in the Vancian Dying Earth subgenre, and follows the journey of Severian, a member of the Guild of Torturers, after he is exiled for the sin of mercy. Over the course of the series the books won British Science Fiction, World Fantasy, British Fantasy, Locus, Nebula, and Campbell Memorial Awards. In 1998 poll, the readers of Locus magazine considered the series as a single entry and ranked it third in a poll of fantasy novels published before 1990, following only The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.
https://www.tor.com/2019/04/15/gene-...iam-1931-2019/
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Haven’t read any of his work. Been wondering what I’ll read next once I finally kill off the Malazan books. Now I know.
Would you recommend I go with The Book of the New Sun as a representative selection of his best works?