I don't know if anyone else on the board is an Epic Fantasy/ Sci-Fi guy, but wanted to give a recommendation for Gene Wolfe's Books of the New Sun series.
For those of you who don't know Wolfe, he is the most criminally underrated writer of all time. He has been described as "the best writer alive" and "the Herman Melville of sci-fi" by award winners such as Neil Gaiman, Patrick O'Leary and Michael Swanwick
I was recommended to him by a fellow Catholic and didn't realize he was a fellow Ag until after he died a few years ago. His books while not explicitly religious, are heavily influenced by his devout Catholicism.
The Books of the New Sun are the story of Severian the Torturer, a journeyman torturer who is exiled from his guild for showing compassion to one of his victims. The world building is insane, and Wolfe writes in such a way as I've never before seen, where you will have a "Memento" or "Prestige" OMG moment where random details mesh together into a gigantic reveal.
Before diving into the series if you want a short work which will get you used to Wolfe's writing style I recommend "the fifth head of cerberus".
For those of you who don't know Wolfe, he is the most criminally underrated writer of all time. He has been described as "the best writer alive" and "the Herman Melville of sci-fi" by award winners such as Neil Gaiman, Patrick O'Leary and Michael Swanwick
I was recommended to him by a fellow Catholic and didn't realize he was a fellow Ag until after he died a few years ago. His books while not explicitly religious, are heavily influenced by his devout Catholicism.
The Books of the New Sun are the story of Severian the Torturer, a journeyman torturer who is exiled from his guild for showing compassion to one of his victims. The world building is insane, and Wolfe writes in such a way as I've never before seen, where you will have a "Memento" or "Prestige" OMG moment where random details mesh together into a gigantic reveal.
Before diving into the series if you want a short work which will get you used to Wolfe's writing style I recommend "the fifth head of cerberus".
