The Wizard (GOLLANCZ S.F.)

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The Wizard meets Gene Wolfe's own definition of good literature: The writing is simple and straightforward, like the hero-narrator, on the surface. Underneath there are depths where subtle and wonderful things happen. I love the materials Wolfe pulls into his world-building--Norse mythology and cosmology and Arthurian legend among others--and I love the world he builds. Wolfe is a writer who knows that fantasy didn't begin with Tolkien, who has walked in Spenser's Faerie lond, whose imagination is large.

The Wizard is not commercial fantasy. If you want the sci-fi literary equivalent of a Coke you can find it without really trying. This is the wine of the gods, the beer of the Aesir.


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Just don't complain that it's not a Coke. Really a review for books 1 and 2. OK, 4 stars aren't really fair, that is 4 stars relative to Wolfe's level, 5 stars for mere mortal writers. This book, even with it's 7 levels of reality is still has far fewer levels than in other of Wolfe's works. The Long Sun, New Sun series are better.

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Here, the narrator is simpler, less nuanced. In the Long Sun, later facts would often change the whole meaning of earlier scenes. That happens a little such as who the Knight who turned to smoke was in an early scene in the first book -- I like that turn of meaning with new information in Wolfe's works, I like the narrators who are sort of lying or covering their behinds to you and there's less of that in this work.

Still, this is more than worth your while. It's a fun yarn, an adventure with lots of turns in it and an increasingly gripping page turner.

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I'm reading the book to my young daughter -- yes, I edit the sex scenes let's just say she thinks Gene writes in lots of hugs and "sleep overs" and damp down some of the violence. She really got attached to Able in the first book becoming another of Able's odd assortment of followers -- but cried foul when Able stepped out of the picture at the start of book 2 and the pace bogged down in the long cold slog to Utgard and thereafter. But, after about pages, things start to pick right up again and it's worth going along.

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