HeyJaredClose Reading SFF
Unpacking the art, craft, and wonder of literary science fiction and fantasy — story by story, sentence by sentence.
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The Legends of the Historians (opens the original)
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Hello! I’m Ajai, a writer and nerd, especially where literature and videogames are concerned. Close Reading SFF is about just that — digging into science fiction and fantasy literature at a granular level to see what treasures of art, craft, and wisdom we might find there. My main thing for now and the foreseeable future is the Re-Reading Companion to Gene Wolfe’s The Book of the New Sun. You can find the full series so far, as well as other posts and miscellany at this Index, which also serv
The Bell Tolls for Thee (opens the original)
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