![]() ![]() ![]() Disch (“Dark, daunting, and thoroughly believable.”). Le Guin (“The first volume of a masterpiece.”) and Thomas M. Promising, too, were the blurbs from Ursula K. The image promised something along the lines of Michael Moorcock’s Eternal Champion Cycle, a baroque, heroic tale with melancholy underpinnings. I was drawn to The Shadow of the Torturer by Bruce Pennington’s cover art, which depicted a man in a black cloak striding away from a ruined citadel, a huge sword on his back. I was 15 years old and a Dungeons & Dragons nerd I spent a lot of time skulking around the Fantasy and Science Fiction sections of the city’s bookstores. On a Saturday afternoon in 1983, I picked up Gene Wolfe’s The Shadow of the Torturer in the Fountain Bookshop in Belfast, Northern Ireland. ![]()
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