This is the final book of the main series of the Book of the New Sun, as told in this volume and three others. Like the previous ones, this one is presented as a kind of found-text in a foreign language and translated by Gene Wolfe. That framing device works as far as you’re not too interested in how a book that supposedly takes place 1,000,000 years into the Earth’s future is found and translated by a contemporary writer. Maybe like a timeloop or something. […]