494: The Mists of Memory




C-Realm Podcast show

Summary: KMO welcomes <a href="https://twitter.com/peterbebergal" target="_blank">Peter Bebergal</a>, author of <a href="http://www.npr.org/2014/10/23/356988948/season-of-the-witch-shines-a-black-light-on-the-occult-in-rock" target="_blank">Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll</a> back to the C-Realm Podcast to talk about the role of memory in the writing of Gene Wolfe. One of Wolfe's characters, Latro from <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/322067.Soldier_of_the_Mist" target="_blank">Soldier of the Mist</a>, forgets everything. Severian, the protagonist of <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60211.The_Shadow_of_the_Torturer" target="_blank">The Book of the New Sun</a>, forgets nothing. Who do you think would make a more <a href="http://aidanmoher.com/blog/featured-article/2014/07/gene-wolfe-reliably-unreliable-author-chris-gerwel/" target="_blank">reliable narrator</a>? Later, the conversation turns to roleplaying games, comics, dinosaurs and rock-n-roll. A full <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igK0dQXihjE" target="_blank">audiobook </a>of The Shadow of the Torturer can be found on YouTube. Here's <a href="https://stephenpalmersf.wordpress.com/2013/05/02/podcast-on-the-book-of-the-new-sun/" target="_blank">a short podcast</a> about The Shadow of the Torturer.