Award-winning SF and fantasy author Gene Wolfe passed away yesterday (April 14, 2019). Here is a sort of obituary for Wolfe posted on Tor's web site.
I mention this here because the majority of the content on this site pertains to Numenera. Even though he did not contribute directly to the Numenera project, Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun series was very likely the single biggest inspiration/influence on Numenera. If you love the Numenera setting but have never read the Book of the New Sun, you should definitely do yourself a favor and check it out. Fair warning: it is a challenging read, but in my opinion, well worth it. (I expect that people familiar with Numenera will be able to grok many of the core concepts of BotNS more readily. Be warned, it will be a challenging read even so; have a good dictionary to hand before you start.)
Even if you don't know about Numenera, I still highly recommend that you check out the Book of the New Sun. It is widely regarded as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, science-fantasy books of all time.
I mention this here because the majority of the content on this site pertains to Numenera. Even though he did not contribute directly to the Numenera project, Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun series was very likely the single biggest inspiration/influence on Numenera. If you love the Numenera setting but have never read the Book of the New Sun, you should definitely do yourself a favor and check it out. Fair warning: it is a challenging read, but in my opinion, well worth it. (I expect that people familiar with Numenera will be able to grok many of the core concepts of BotNS more readily. Be warned, it will be a challenging read even so; have a good dictionary to hand before you start.)
Even if you don't know about Numenera, I still highly recommend that you check out the Book of the New Sun. It is widely regarded as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, science-fantasy books of all time.
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