/lit/ - Literature

He has said in a video that The Book Of The New Sun is the greatest science fiction story of all time.

cyberpunk made sense in the 80s. its the closest scifi got to being prophetic about the future. we pretty much live in a shitty cyberpunk world except more boring.

I would say the successor to cyberpunk should be the dying earth genre like book of the new sun

Is this really he best sf book ever written? Just started reading it and I'm feeling like in a dream

>Just bought them all after a friend recommended it to me.
Is this shit even good? I'm not a huge sci-fi guy but my friend said it's very well written.
>inb4 take it up with /sffg/
I want to know if it's a good series in general

So I just finished the first book. It was beautifully written and everything I had hoped for when seeing discussions of it on here but I was wondering how much is up to interpretation/ deeper meaning with some of the text. Did any of you go back and read it another time or look up the old words/ made up words spoken through out? One thing I have to criticize about is how the plot unfolded. It just seemed like one thing happened right after the next with very little focus. Was that intentional in making it seem like an almost biblical journey of seeming randomness but will undoubtedly get Severian where he needs to be?

Why are this series so damn good, is there anything similar to this?