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Introduction and Chapter 1 - Gene Wolfe's The Shadow of the Torturer

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The Necropolis and the Citadel

"We're still getting all these signifiers of the medieval or Renaissance or at least older set dressing, right? Yep. And we get this term, Barbican, as something that they're trying to get around," he said. "Even if we know this is dying earth, I don't even know if the back of the book says, but let's presume we know that this is a future story."

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