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illomens 's review for:
Fifth Head of Cerberus
by Gene Wolfe, Gene Wolfe
Gene Wolfe you son of a bitch!!!!!!!!
Its a fucking good book!
What starts as a criticism of Colonialism starts a narrative spiral where you find a LOT of the subjects and themes Gene will explore later (esp in the three series of the Solar Cycle), a lot of the techniques he already has control of (the familiar rendered alien, the alien deceptively familiar) in a layered narrative with each layer giving complications to the ones before.
And dont get me wrong it stays on the topic of Colonialism Evil all the way through but via stuff like cloning and shapshifting and what Identity and Selfhood mean, but also slavery, prison systems, anthropological racism, and so on.
Its a fucking good book!
What starts as a criticism of Colonialism starts a narrative spiral where you find a LOT of the subjects and themes Gene will explore later (esp in the three series of the Solar Cycle), a lot of the techniques he already has control of (the familiar rendered alien, the alien deceptively familiar) in a layered narrative with each layer giving complications to the ones before.
And dont get me wrong it stays on the topic of Colonialism Evil all the way through but via stuff like cloning and shapshifting and what Identity and Selfhood mean, but also slavery, prison systems, anthropological racism, and so on.