First we have to redeem our imaginations, you see. So it's not really that I hoped for a physical salvation of the planet (would be nice though! And in print it costs nothing!), but for a moral salvation of Severian's (Wolfe's) fantasy civilisation. Note-we know that THIS world is eventually beyond saving our sun is a star with an expiration date, however remote, and we can only hope that aliens or AI or, heck, future humans, will figure out a way to preserve human life, or at least the consciousness of it. The sadism, the misogyny, the wobbly structure, the technical flaws-I have to admit I'd have looked past all of them (though not forgotten them), if only Severian (Wolfe) actually saved (t)his world in the end. self-aggrandizing fascistoid reactionary crapola. I'm entering a busier period and don't know if I'll have time (or the will, frankly) to discuss the book(s) in detail, so just my overall impression (finished yesterday).
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