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A review by arf88
The Fifth Head of Cerberus by Gene Wolfe
3.0
Avoid the introduction of the SF Masterworks edition– it does that thing where it spoils everything noteworthy about the book.
This is an interesting collection of loosely connected novellas. There’s lots of deep subtext here, about colonialism, about what it means to be human, but I’m not sure the entire thing meshes into a coherent narrative, and despite the short length I found parts the 2nd and 3rd novellas a bit of a slog. The first novella is by far the best of the bunch, and it and the 3rd have very well done twists.
This is an interesting collection of loosely connected novellas. There’s lots of deep subtext here, about colonialism, about what it means to be human, but I’m not sure the entire thing meshes into a coherent narrative, and despite the short length I found parts the 2nd and 3rd novellas a bit of a slog. The first novella is by far the best of the bunch, and it and the 3rd have very well done twists.