![]() ![]() ![]() Gene Wolfe did a very interesting thing when writing the book. The high point of the world-building is an extended trip into a massive botanical garden, where despite the name, is like no garden anywhere on earth. The setting is very well defined one, and has some of the best world-building that I've read. The civilization of Urth had achieved deep-space travel, but eventually degraded into a dark age where technology is often indistinguishable from magic. The setting of the novel is 'Urth' which is clearly our own world, but at an unspecified time in the future, most likely hundreds of thousands of years. ![]() I found this book to be very different from what is considered the norm in sci-fi and fantasy. I'll put my thoughts here, trying to digest what I just read. Of the books that I have read in the speculative fiction genre, very few are like Gene Wolfe's book, Shadow of the Torturer. ![]()
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