Dragaera

Robert Jordan (was: Seen the other night....)

Fri Feb 20 08:50:46 PST 2004


On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, skzb wrote:

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> > Spoiler for Gene Wolfe's Book of The New Sun:
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> > On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 Gaertk at aol.com wrote:
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> > > examples of fantasy trilogies outside of D&D tie-ins.  Can
> > > you cite a fantasy series with at least 6 POVs that was
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> > The Book of the New Sun.
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> Uh...that was one ponit of view, first person from Sevarian.

I freely admit the above answer was rather snarky.

But Severian doesn't exactly have one point of view, given that
he's a combination of the original Severian, Thecla, the autarch,
the previous autarch, a white hole ...  Chapter XXXV of _The Citadel_
gives some evidence he's not an alloy but a composite.

I wonder if Vlad will have a unified POV - at the end of _Issola_
the Necromancer is already wondering who's running the show...