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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Replying to @egavactip
Because the hero comes of age as a soldier fighting in a war against a totalitarian collectivist state that surpresses all individuality.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
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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Replying to @egavactip
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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Replying to @HeerJeet @egavactip
I'm curious - who do you see Baldanders and Dr Talos as in this reading?
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