Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun -- set in the far future when sun is dying, featuring man-apes, aliens, time travel, and a hero who can revive the dead -- is on some fundamental level a memoir of the author's experiences in the Korean War.
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And if we talk about authorial intention, Wolfe said so explicitly. Specifically, Severian's slow-then-sudden entry into the war in the fourth volume.
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I was kinda surprised how quickly people dissented.
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Doesn't Severian pledge service to the Autarch and later succeed the Autarch? And there seems to be no lack of individuality on Urth.
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I mean the Ascians -- very clearly a communist regime of some sort. Severin's identity problems parallel stories of USA soldiers being traumatized and or brainwashed.
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No one shall receive more than a hundred blows.
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Behind our tweets, let there be found our tweets.
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