Moss Bosch joins us to discuss Gene Wolfe’s “The Shadow of the Torturer”, socially intimate games, tasty and tender world building, reading a book without realizing it is the first in a series, ridiculous ways to introduce new PCs, reading a book written for multiple audiences, cities the size of a nation, Blades in the Dark, stolen sex dolls, flowers as awkward and incredibly dangerous weapons, obvious foreshadowing, TikTok, and much more!
Appendix N Book Club 
Was so taken by this novel that I rolled right into the second in the series!
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Yeah I wanna read more!
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‘Book of the New Sun’ is one of my favorite fantasy series. Wolfe’s prose is wonderful and rewards multiple reads. Some resources which help enjoy the books are Lexicon Urthus, a dictionary of terms used throughout the books, and ‘Gene Wolfe’s A Book of the New Sun: A Chapter Guide’ which is basically what it says – a chapter by chapter guide to the series. Both of these books were written by Michael Andre-Driussi who also wrote an excellent GURPS sourcebook for the series (which also serves as a good resource to help understand the books).
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