#book of the new sun

[ohotnig]

SKETCHBOOK OF FULIGIN is live! ohotnig.itch.io/fuligin ohotnig.gumroad.com/l/fuligin Here's something nice for you, especially if you're a Gene Wolfe fan: brand new digital fanzine, containing 44 pages of my Book of the New Sun-inspired drawings (originally done as personal sketchbook project for one of my most committed patrons). This little book could also be considered an unofficial companion piece for Book of Fuligin (www.kickstarter.com/projects/715611068/book-of-fuligin-honoring-the-legacy-of-gene-wolfe)

You can grab it for free (as usual) or get an extended edition for $3+ donation! Cheers!

#gene wolfe #book of the new sun #fanzine #zine #fanart #book of fuligin #sketchbook of fuligin #artyom trakhanov

[lil-tachyon]

"I have seen the eyes of many of these creatures that are supposed to have come from beyond the margin of the world ... but their eyes are the eyes of beasts only. The red orbs of the alzabo were something more, holding neither the intelligence of humankind nor the innocence of the brutes" - Gene Wolfe, The Sword of the Lictor

Oldie from nearly two years ago done for The Book of Fuligin.

#gene wolfe #alzabo #book of the new sun #xenobiology #sci fi art

[clementine-kesh]

it’s me, thecla, I’M the shadow of the torturer

-severian, book of the new sun

#book of the new sun

[ancient-magus]

#book of the new sun #amano yoshitaka #yoshitaka amano

[teratocrat]

His grip on my shoulder tightened. "We have books here bound in the hides of echidnas, krakens, and beasts so long extinct that those whose studies they are, are for the most part of the opinion that no trace of them survives unfossilized. We have books bound wholly in metals of unknown alloy, and books whose bindings are covered with thickset gems. We have books cased in perfumed woods shipped across the inconceivable gulf between creations - books doubly precious because no one on Urth can read them. "We have books whose papers are matted of plants from which spring curious alkaloids, so that the reader, in turning their pages, is taken unaware by bizarre fantasies and chimeric dreams. Books whose pages are not paper at all, but delicate wafers of white jade, ivory, and shell; books too whose leaves are the desiccated leaves of unknown plants. Books we have also that are not books at all to the eye: scrolls and tablets and recordings on a hundred different substances. There is a cube of crystal here - though I can no longer tell you where - no larger than the ball of your thumb that contains more books than the library itself does. Though a harlot might dangle it from one ear for an ornament, there are not volumes enough in the world to counterweight the other. All these I came to know, and I made safeguarding them my life's devotion."

Gene Wolfe, Shadow of the Torturer (1980)

#Gene Wolfe #Book of the New Sun #botns #Shadow of the Torturer #Shadow and Claw

[windowsloth]

When I think of my own death, or of the death of someone who has been kind to me, or even of the death of the sun, the image that comes to my mind is that of the nenuphar, with its glossy, pale leaves and azure flower. Under flower and leaves are black roots as fine and strong as hair, reaching down into the dark waters.

Gene Wolfe, the Book of the New Sun

#book of the new sun #look at me drawing fan art #shout out to Ranged Touch #got me all excited about genre fiction

[thisisnotjustkink]

My non horny posts on this account don't tend to be shared too widely, but I need to recommend this so damn badly.

I somehow lived 30+ years and never heard of The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe.

If me posting about it can convince just one person to learn about it's existence, it's worth it.

The prose is beautiful, the world is dense. It may be one of my favorite books of all time, and I'm only about halfway through.

I can see it's fingerprints now in so much of the media I love. Elden Ring, The Dark Tower, and the works of Jeff Vandermeer. It's almost Pynchon-esq in the prose, while being more poetic and narratively satisfying.

Like...

"The best SF novel of the last century."

-Neil Gaiman

HOW DID I NEVER HEAR OF THIS UNTIL RECENTLY??! Possibly because it's obviously not translatable to other media?? A movie or game or show would diminish what makes it beautiful...

Anyway

Please, if you're a fan of weird fiction, scifi, fantasy, or just read The Book of the New Sun. It's so fucking good.

#book of the new sun #gene wolfe #sci fi #reading recommendations #weird fiction #fantasy fiction #shadow and claw

[magicraygun]

read book of the new sun read book of the new sun read book of the new sun

also I started weaning myself off of traditional art via ms paint

wahey

#book of the new sun #gene wolfe #severian #thecla #fanart #scifi #ms paint #dying earth

[lilyblisslys]

tired: severian would be a tumblr sexyman

Wired: severian would be a bpd girlie meme on tiktok

#lilysffposting #book of the new sun

[strangerspub]

Book of Fuligin | Garresh

Three pages from Garresh for the upcoming Book of Fuligin; a comics anthology set on Urth, telling stories to honor Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun and celebrate his genre-defining legacy.

#Book of Fuligin #Garresh #gene wolfe #book of the new sun #dark fantasy #Strangers Publishing #comics #scifiart #art #comic art

[crimsonconciliator]

EXAMINE TOMB =>

Your name is SEVERIAN. As was previously mentioned it is your ELEVATION DAY. A number of ROSES and SEPULCHRAL RELIEFS are scattered about your tomb. You have a variety of INTERESTS. You have a passion for TALL WOMEN. You have a perfect memory but you have a habit of LYING BY OMISSION. You have a fondness for YOUR PET DOG TRISKELE, and are an aspiring AMATEUR TORTURER. You also like to go SWIMMING sometimes.

What will you do?

#book of the new sun #botns #homestuck #shelved by genre

[clementine-kesh]

the shadow of the torturer - gene wolfe

#real shelved by genre listeners will know #shelved by genre #book of the new sun

[taravangianlistenstothebeachboys]

I love Severian so fucking much

#book of the new sun #gene wolfe #the citadel of the autarch

[thelastofthebookworms]

You'll find the other polls in my 'sf polls' tag / my pinned post.

#polls #science fiction #sf polls #a fire upon the deep #vernor vinge #book of the new sun #gene wolfe #old man's war #john scalzi #the gods themselves #isaac asimov #shards of honor #the vorkosigan saga #vorkosigan saga #lois mcmaster bujold #contact #carl sagan #ringworld #larry niven #nine princes in amber #the chronicles of amber #chronicles of amber #roger zelazny #dragonflight #dragonriders of pern #anne mccaffrey

[windowsloth]

“The animal was brought from the stars long ago… it is a beast having no more intelligence than a dog, and perhaps less. But it is a devourer of carrion and a clawer at graves, and when it has fed upon human flesh it knows, at least for a time, the speech and ways of human beings.”

#book of the new sun #botns #it’s alzabo time baby #botns spoilers #digital illustration #my favorite interstellar hyena parrot bear demon beastie

[natalieironside]

Do you ever have day dreams of being in fictional worlds? If so what would it be? For me it’s a Wild West mercenary or Starch Wars bounty hunter

I would put up with living in a dystopian autocracy on a dying planet if I could spend one afternoon in the big library from Shadow of the Torturer

#book of the new sun