Book Review: Soldier of the Mist by Gene Wolfe
A fantastic story about a Roman who lost his memory and his Odyssey-like adventure to get it back.
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About a year ago, a friend and avid reader of this blog1 introduced me to Gene Wolfe’s Solar Cycle series, specifically the Book of the New Sun. He kept a list of vocabulary words that were unfamiliar to him, some of which intrigued me. Some were pulled straight from ancient Greek: eidolon, caryatid, thaumaturge, and agathodaemon were all eminently famil…
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