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Most of the action scenes in this novel play like something from a particularly whacked out Hong Kong wuxia film from the same era the novel was written (mid/late 1960's), which I find absolutely awesome.
— Nov 19, 2025 07:13AM
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Simon
is on page 96 of 296
This has a similar vibe as Gene Wolfe's "Book of the New Sun" in that it appears at first to take place in a fantasy setting but is slowly revealed to take place in a science-fiction universe, that only looks fantastic to most of its inhabitants because they only have a pre-modern frame of reference for understanding the world. Really enjoying it so far, for most of the same reasons I liked "Book of the New Sun".
— Nov 17, 2025 02:17AM
