That is taken directly from historical German executioner swords. The idea for the construction of the sword in the book is cool, with an internal space running down the entire blade partially filled with mercury. When held upright the mercury flows to the hilt end, increasing dexterity. When swung, the mercury flows to the tip and makes the cutting end heavier, increasing power. I wonder if anyone ever tried to make it in real life.
No, anon. I don't think anyone has tried to make a sword with poisonous metal in the middle of it where it is meant to swing and strike things.
You could test it with a baseball bat though.
Every artist has to embellish his attire because the way it's described isn't fancy. He has some boots and trousers, a cloak that doesn't reflect light (not a hood), and a mask he almost never wears. This gay had to add useless embroidery and straps and armor pieces, and bandages on his knees for sucking dick I guess.
Yep. The most prominent cover of this book is notorious for what you described, which is weird because it's pretty much the only cover you can find anywhere despite being totally fricking wrong
Every artist has to embellish his attire because the way it's described isn't fancy. He has some boots and trousers, a cloak that doesn't reflect light (not a hood), and a mask he almost never wears. This gay had to add useless embroidery and straps and armor pieces, and bandages on his knees for sucking dick I guess.
https://i.imgur.com/JwmMU4j.jpg
Could Book of the New Sun be adapted into a miniseries?
>Bitches don't know about the 3 issue adaptation they made in the 90s
Severian is literally an s&m twink that was raised in an s&m tower
thats just the citadel not the whole city
>le gyoll
The french are so gay
book 4 is fine
Urth is unfilmable
>urth is unfilmable
Thats like the most coherent one, what are you talking about? First half is straight up scifi, second half is jesus-but-future.
You homosexuals memed this book into the ground. Frick you.
Best sci fi / fantast author. I wish there were more like wolfe that made me want to reread his work immediately after finishing it.
the virgin severian >bad man trying to be better >dynamic and introspective >was it rape?
the chad cugel >moronic sociopath >learns absolutely nothing >it was rape
I finished Eyes of the Overworld, is Cugel's Saga better? I wasn't a fan of the first one book in the series simply because the dialogue felt like it was straight from a bad anime >ah you have struck me with my one weakness, for that i shall fall back and forgoe my attack on you!
If you're not a fan of the dialogue you're not gonna like the rest of the series I'm afraid, I personally love the dialogue, you can tell Jack Vance was greatly influenced by works of P. G. Wodehouse.
Every artist has to embellish his attire because the way it's described isn't fancy. He has some boots and trousers, a cloak that doesn't reflect light (not a hood), and a mask he almost never wears. This gay had to add useless embroidery and straps and armor pieces, and bandages on his knees for sucking dick I guess.
Isn't the cloak he gets at the rag shop described as being the colour of dead leaves, as he wants to conceal his identity as a torturer. I can't remember what happens to it later on. Does he get rid of it?
>why not
Because it's like post-apocalyptic sci-fi except the language, which is a major draw, is couched in fantasy aesthetic. A lot of it is read between the lines. Like the lance of a knight is actually some kind of extreme high-tech weapon. The language puts the reader into viewing things initially as being more primitive or undeveloped, and that is the mindset of most of the characters who are not privy to the history.
No. The entire point of the book is that the evocative language that makes everyone's interpretation of the visuals completely unique. Seeing someone visually adapt it would be like reading a written description of a song. You're just getting that guy's interpretation with none of the emotion.
It would work very well because the narrative conceit is simply that Latro doesn't remember between certain scenes but the audience does. Lots of room for interesting direction and performances, interesting special effects.
I feel like as soon as you get to the last book it becomes mostly unfilmable. Almost everything that happens is psychological and revolves around what Severian is feeling rather than physical things actually happening.
the virgin severian >bad man trying to be better >dynamic and introspective >was it rape?
the chad cugel >moronic sociopath >learns absolutely nothing >it was rape
why does he look like an s&m twink? did the artist actually think this looked badass?
It's tumblr art, most likely.
the executioners wear a mask and work shirtless
His sword looks cool. I always like swords that are slabs of metal with no tip. It looks very utilitarian and barbaric.
That is taken directly from historical German executioner swords. The idea for the construction of the sword in the book is cool, with an internal space running down the entire blade partially filled with mercury. When held upright the mercury flows to the hilt end, increasing dexterity. When swung, the mercury flows to the tip and makes the cutting end heavier, increasing power. I wonder if anyone ever tried to make it in real life.
No, anon. I don't think anyone has tried to make a sword with poisonous metal in the middle of it where it is meant to swing and strike things.
You could test it with a baseball bat though.
Every artist has to embellish his attire because the way it's described isn't fancy. He has some boots and trousers, a cloak that doesn't reflect light (not a hood), and a mask he almost never wears. This gay had to add useless embroidery and straps and armor pieces, and bandages on his knees for sucking dick I guess.
Yep. The most prominent cover of this book is notorious for what you described, which is weird because it's pretty much the only cover you can find anywhere despite being totally fricking wrong
OP's art deserves credit because it's one of the few works that actually depicts the cloak and mask as not reflecting any light
He gets the fancy, embroidered cloak near the end of the story. It's still supposed to be pure black, though.
>Bitches don't know about the 3 issue adaptation they made in the 90s
jesus, fantasy covers are simply absolute kino
scans never
i want it
I'm pretty sure a rocket ship would fall down over that amount of time lol
it goes into the urth
Severian is literally an s&m twink that was raised in an s&m tower
>le gyoll
The french are so gay
>urth is unfilmable
Thats like the most coherent one, what are you talking about? First half is straight up scifi, second half is jesus-but-future.
Best sci fi / fantast author. I wish there were more like wolfe that made me want to reread his work immediately after finishing it.
I finished Eyes of the Overworld, is Cugel's Saga better? I wasn't a fan of the first one book in the series simply because the dialogue felt like it was straight from a bad anime
>ah you have struck me with my one weakness, for that i shall fall back and forgoe my attack on you!
If you're not a fan of the dialogue you're not gonna like the rest of the series I'm afraid, I personally love the dialogue, you can tell Jack Vance was greatly influenced by works of P. G. Wodehouse.
Isn't the cloak he gets at the rag shop described as being the colour of dead leaves, as he wants to conceal his identity as a torturer. I can't remember what happens to it later on. Does he get rid of it?
he definitely goes back to the fuligin cloak
No, the entire book is based around misleading descriptions that you have to read between the lines to uncover the truth. That doesn't work on screen.
why not
I always imagined it as bigger.
thats just the citadel not the whole city
in english but less detail
>why not
Because it's like post-apocalyptic sci-fi except the language, which is a major draw, is couched in fantasy aesthetic. A lot of it is read between the lines. Like the lance of a knight is actually some kind of extreme high-tech weapon. The language puts the reader into viewing things initially as being more primitive or undeveloped, and that is the mindset of most of the characters who are not privy to the history.
midwits couldn't keep up or even implement it well
i've seen you make this exact thread at least a dozen times in the past two months frick off to Cinemaphile where it belongs
This is the only official map released. Came in 1984's Planet Engineering
>Melito
I feel like this was important but I can't remember why.
I'd add Hyperion and Revelation Space to the list that need to be adapted
Add The Gentlemen Bastards series to that.
One of the few that I think Hollywood couldn't manage to frick up.
you know they'd like cast mindy kaling as both the sanza twins or something
>The Gentlemen Bastards
only the 1st is good
You can't really adapt hyperion because the fist book is seven individual short stories while the second book is a more conventional novel
No. The entire point of the book is that the evocative language that makes everyone's interpretation of the visuals completely unique. Seeing someone visually adapt it would be like reading a written description of a song. You're just getting that guy's interpretation with none of the emotion.
It would only work as an anime
1980s anime OVA would be the absolute best and arguably only way to aakv4xdapt Gene Wolfe.
>Fist of the Northern Star style BotNS
He'd be a weeb if he were born later. I just know it.
he was in the Korean War
nips and asiatics are natural enemies
No and why would you want it?
Long Sun would be much better on film or numerous of Wolfe's other novels
Soldier of the Mist would be pretty kino
It would work very well because the narrative conceit is simply that Latro doesn't remember between certain scenes but the audience does. Lots of room for interesting direction and performances, interesting special effects.
>Should Book of the New Sun be adapted into a miniseries
No.
Heavy Metal/Métal hurlant comic adaptation at the most.
Cast it
ah a true smart lad
good book
I should reread sometime
I feel like as soon as you get to the last book it becomes mostly unfilmable. Almost everything that happens is psychological and revolves around what Severian is feeling rather than physical things actually happening.
book 4 is fine
Urth is unfilmable
I always thought the claw was red not blue
yes but you need a visual genius like Roger Deakins to make it work
bit overrated tbh
Jordan Cronenweth or Peter Suschitzky
You homosexuals memed this book into the ground. Frick you.
thank Cinemaphile not us
Simply read his other stories and don't tell anyone about them. I mean short stories too.
Island of Dr Death and Other Stories is kino
the virgin severian
>bad man trying to be better
>dynamic and introspective
>was it rape?
the chad cugel
>moronic sociopath
>learns absolutely nothing
>it was rape
>chad
>moronic
>sociopath
The Cugel stories are my absolute favorites of all the "Dying Earth" subgenre.
they're so fricking good
Also they have great covers
when did he get the animu treatment
That's the cover from the Japanese edition of The Eyes of the Overworld.
There's also some Japanese editions of BOTNS.
for some reason I always imagined the Claw as being red with a black thorn inside of it, saw this image and thought "what the frick is he holding"
maybe but the showrunner/writer/whoever would have to care a LOT
probably work better as a cartoon
>2022
>asking for goyslop adaptation filled with Black folk and troons
Here's your Severian bro
>Haven't read it yet.
I'm excited.