The Fifth Head of Cerberus Examined | Gene Wolfe's Cautionary Tale (Book Review/Essay)
Channel: Filip Magnus
Date: 31/07/2023

The Fifth Head of Cerberus is a complex and challenging text addressing a distinct tension about the consequences of human cloning, while also touching on postcolonial and postmodern issues. It's one of the most rewarding intellectual experiences I've had with a book this year. Gene Wolfe deserves that "grand master of SF" title the nerds gave him. (I'd have been one of them.)

References: 

Sheehan, Paul. “Posthuman Bodies.” _The Cambridge Companion to the Body in Literature_, edited by David Hillman and Ulrika Maude, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2015, pp. 245–260. Cambridge Companions to Literature.
Wolfe, Gene. *The Fifth Head of Cerberus*, Gollancz, 2010.
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