(urth) Latro Thoughts
Fernando Gouvea
fqgouvea at colby.edu
Mon Jul 29 10:04:55 PDT 2013
From what Wolfe has been saying, another /Soldier/ seems very unlikely.
The interaction with the gods is central to the Latro books in way that
go way beyond the /Long Sun/ books, I think.
Fernando
On 7/29/2013 12:14 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:
> "Does the series conclude with S.o.Sidon?" -- That depends on whether
> Wolfe writes another one or not. The series is open-ended.
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 9:06 AM, Antonin Scriabin
> <kierkegaurdian at gmail.com <mailto:kierkegaurdian at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> I had been putting off the Latro books for a while so that I would
> always have an unread Wolfe series to look forward to, but my
> curiosity has finally gotten the better of me. I am nearly done
> with /Soldier of the Mist, /and have been enjoying it. It has a
> number of parallels with the /Long Sun /books, such as the
> (apparent) reality of gods, detailed discussions of blood
> sacrifice, a just-outside-of-view threat from non-humans like
> vampires and werewolves, etc. It actually seems like a prototype
> version of what became /The Book of the New Sun/; a central male
> hero suffers some kind of mental "event" (on the one hand, severe
> brain trauma, and on the other, enlightenment) that opens the door
> to gods (or to what appear as gods). In both works, these gods
> are petty, prone to infighting, and in many ways offer more
> questions than answers to the hero. He has only been mentioned
> twice so far, but I also feel that the Unknown God / Outsider
> similarity can't be a coincidence. Anyways, I know that you guys
> have all probably been over these topics plenty, I just wanted to
> air a few thoughts. I do have one question: does the series
> conclude with /Soldier of Sidon/? I would, of course, like to
> avoid spoilers, I am mostly interested in the possibility of more
> Latro novels. Thanks!
>
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