I won’t say this is a must for anyone who’s head-scratched his way through the Book of the New Sun, but it’s got enough interesting perspectives on what’s “really” going on to be an enjoyable companion to those great, great books.

Borski has read a lot more of Wolfe’s oeuvre than I have, and the parallels he draws between elements of New Sun and the Fifth Head of Cerberus sent me skittering off to get a copy of that collection as well. I always appreciate a signpost to more good reading!

I don’t agree with all of Borski’s theories about who everybody is but it’s nice at last to know who everybody means when they start their beard-stroky maunderings about how Severian isn’t really the protagonist of New Sun. I won’t spoil it. Read The Solar Labyrinth.

Man’s got a point…