I started An Evil Guest, Gene Wolfe’s latest, on the way to Games Club yesterday. (Oh, lost a lot of games of Race for the Galaxy and Dominion.) Here are things I’m noticing as I go; page references are from the first Tor hardcover:
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A chiropractor who claims he can treat anyone by reaching back in time to when an injury occurred has attracted the attention of state regulators.

Reaching through time to cure injuries? Could he be - the Conciliator?!

Burda calls his treatment “Bahlaqeem.”

“It is a made-up word and, to my knowledge, has no known meaning except for ( Read more... )

I finished up Return to the Whorl on Thursday, completing the last of Gene Wolfe’s Sun books.

( Final opinions and specualtions; spoilers, of course )

I am an idiot. Three times now I’ve read the Book of the New Sun, and it’s not till just tonight, on page 331 of the second Short Sun book, that I realize that ( Spoilers for all three Sun series! )

( More spoilers for Short Sun )

( More spoilers for New Sun and Short Sun )

Just finished On Blue’s Waters, the first book of the Book of the Short Sun.

( Spoilers for all of the Sun books )

Oh, now that’s interesting! I was browsing through the archives of the Whorl mailing list, and I found a message listing the meanings of the names of the various Fliers from Long Sun.

( Spoiler for Long Sun )

I realized the other day: Patera Silk is a Mary Sue!

( SPOILERS for The Book of the LONG Sun )

( Major SPOILERS for The Book of the Short Sun )