#gene wolfe

This is the line of division / Terminus Est Thecla and Severian from The Book of the New Sun series, which I've been reading for the past couple of years.

I want to give a shout out to Shelved by Genre podcast, which has been excellent listening after reading each book, their long discussions about the chapters have been interesting and inspiring, and provided some context for lot of things I had no point of reference for at all. (Catholic lore, for one). Funnily enough they mentioned in fan art, there tends to be two camps for Severian - either the heavy metal-esque, ripped as hell muscle fantasy type, or, the jrpg protagonist. You can see which camp I am.

Books for every Spotify Wrapped listener class! 

VAMPIRE

Masters of Death by Olivie Blake

Starling House by Alix E. Harrow

Mordew by Alex Pheby

HYPNOTIST

The Library of the Dead by T. L. Huchu

Daughter of Redwinter by Ed McDonald

Spring’s Arcana by Lilith Saintcrow

ALCHEMIST

The Bone Orchard by Sara A. Mueller

The Genesis of Misery by Neon Yang

The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey

SHAPESHIFTER

Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher

The Warden by Daniel M. Ford

Wolfsong by TJ Klune

FANATIC

Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson

Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree

The Fragile Threads of Power by V. E. Schwab

TIME TRAVELER

Kinning by Nisi Shawl

She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab

MASTERMIND

The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

Red Team Blues by Cory Doctorow

Exadelic by Jon Evans

COLLECTOR

The Wolfe at the Door by Gene Wolfe

Cassiel’s Servant by Jacqueline Carey

I love you, but you are another death, a death that has stayed with me and befriended me as the old death in the lake did, but death all the same.

The Mystery of the Guild