No matter what summary or review I give this, fans of this book will say it’s wrong. Oh well! Severian is trained as a torturer for the kingdom. He’s happy to learn his trade until one day he meets a woman and he does the one thing you’re not supposed to do as a torturer - show mercy. Now, he’s on the run in a world that is far bigger than he realized. And that’s it. Nothing else….Well ok, this maybe the far-far future and there are androids and magic might just be high levels of tech and the whole book is from Severian’s perspective as the future ruler of the world but maybe not and it all might be Gene Wolfe metanarrative although he claims to have received this story from the future in some sort of channeled fever dream. I love scifi!
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