A spoiler-dense, chapter by chapter discussion of Gene Wolfe‘s science fantasy masterpiece The Book Of The New Sun, covering all four volumes and a little bit from Urth of the New Sun when necessary. They don‘t try to spoil anything else but, then again it‘s not a prepossessing podcast. https://www.patreon.com/rereadingwolfe
Episodes
Monday Sep 21, 2020
Monday Sep 21, 2020
The Shadow of the Torturer Chapter 29, "Agilus"
Severian visits Agilus in prison. Agia draws... what? A face? A map? A symbol?
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- Intro from "The Alligator", Annihilation soundtrack by Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow
- Outro from "Mask of My Own Face" by Lemon Demon
- Logo art by SonOfWitz
Outros and alternate outros are cued on the Rereading Wolfe Podcast Spotify playlist IF the songs are available on Spotify.
Sunday Sep 06, 2020
Sunday Sep 06, 2020
The Shadow of the Torturer Chapter 28, "Carnifex"
Severian wakes up in the lazaret to discover he's being attended to by a baboon. He wanders around the Hall of Justice and comes back to talk to Dorcas.
Links:
- Michael Andre-Driussi, Cody Martin, Bowenkage, and Ubikan responded to chapter 27 and other things.
- Sean Michael Robinson on Cadroe of the Seventeen Stones
- Ian C Smith on Raucho and the events at the Botanic Gardens 1 and 2
- Marco Gouvea on the pronunciation of "Gurloes"
- Adam Roth's First Severian/Agia Curiositus Urthus
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This episode is sponsored by Tough Love Medical Center.
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- Intro from "The Alligator", Annihilation soundtrack by Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow
- Outro from "Dog Faced Boy" by Eels
- Logo art by SonOfWitz
Outros and alternate outros are cued on the Rereading Wolfe Podcast Spotify playlist IF the songs are available on Spotify.
Sunday Sep 06, 2020
Sunday Sep 06, 2020
The John Crowley Interview
John Crowley has never read a whole Gene Wolfe story but he's read Hamlet's Mill and that is the only 20th-century work included in the Chrasmological Writings (The Book of the Long/Short Sun). So we talked to him about that and about related works.
Then Craig and James talk about why James is so obsessed with the Wolfe/Hamlet's Mill connection.
Links:
- Hamlet's Mill - Wikipedia
- Hamlet's Mill - Amazon
- Little Big by John Crowely - Amazon
- Aegypt franchise by John Crowley - Amazon
- A Fish Dinner in Memison by ER Eddison
- Thinking with Demons: The Idea of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe by Stewart Clark
- Francis Yates
- Black Athena by Martin Bernal
- Focault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
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This episode is sponsored by The Precession of the Equinox.
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- Intro from "The Alligator", Annihilation soundtrack by Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow
- Outro from "Lost In the Stars" [Kurt Veil] by Leonard Nimoy
- Logo art by SonOfWitz
Outros and alternate outros are cued on the Rereading Wolfe Podcast Spotify playlist IF the songs are available on Spotify.