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The standalone 1984 Gene Wolfe novel Free Live Free is set in a contemporary American city, and it plays its science-fictional cards very close to the chest for more than four-fifths of its total length. Written after the magisterial Book of the New Sun, it is similarly coy about its crucial speculative underpinnings, to the point where the Tor Books edition of 1985 appended a short explanatory chronology demanded by the editors. Unlike the nearly solipsistic first-person focus of the Book of the New Sun, Free Live Free centers on a set of four characters, each richly detailed, who are made interdependent by circumstance.
![Val Biro's cover for Charity Blackstock's "Exorcism" [I'm assuming, by the title, that there's genre or genre-related elements]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:oaffsikc5nub6hqya4ufufxd/bafkreif5lpcihzhyaaymglqq34fygwfp2td4w7oygykbro6nu2n7vdz6i4)
