<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Since Gene Wolfe was mentioned in an article appearing in First Things recently and was recommended through a friend I decided to pick up some of his books. I read "An Evil Guest" first, and once I realized I had missed pretty much the whole book, I picked up the New Sun series (including the fifth book) and promised I would pay more attention. I have read some of the archive and the notes on the Gene Wolfe Wiki (which I _think_ is maintained by one of you folks?). <br><br>I am now going to add my entirely wild musings to the mix.<br><br>1.) Is Severian Albion? He becomes the "Storm God" in the end and the servitors of Albion also "serve" him especially when he is saved.<br>2.) Is he the same Storm God as is in an "Evil Guest"? If they both exist on the same timeline then "An
Evil Guest" would be well within the period in which the new sun is in transit (I'm assuming Apu is pre-colonial South American).<br>3.) Has anyone else had difficulty explaining the plot to his aged grandmother and consciously skipped over the Dorcas character?<br>4.) Is Severian a proto(/post)-Christian (not -like) figure in a Mormon universe? That is it seems to have an endless hierarchy of gods. The concept of an "uncreate" blows this theory but the robots seem to have an endless hierarchy topped (roughly) by a race. Am I missing something?<br><br>Nicholas Jost<br></div><br>
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