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A truly epic journey. I can hardly overstate my admiration for Gene Wolfe. This vast novel is so imaginative, expansive, and intriguing. Silk is a great protagonist, but the whole ensemble receives careful attention. Wolfe might be the best world builder ever. As satisfying, thought-provoking, and worth revisiting as a book can be.

Gene Wolfe is fascinated by merging personalities, by the preservation or transformation of one's consciousness when absorbed into another's.

After a big hiatus, I've embarked on reading the second half of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. I'm a huge Wolfe fan, but have been too busy to do much pleasure reading this fall. I'm only a hundred pages in, but the story is already accelerating in surprising ways--a Wolfe hallmark.

The Book of the New Sun is one of the greatest works of fiction that I have ever read.

This series, the Book of the Long Sun, is set in the same universe but separated by vast gulfs of space and time. It follows a naive young priest named Silk who sets out to save his failing abbey. His journey leads him through political revolution to meet the gods of the gigantic starship in which he lives and ends in an ambiguity that is textbook Wolfe.