Book of the New Sun

Needing to reread genre fiction.

I do believe his memory is perfect like he says. The inconsistencies are a result of him exaggerating his experiences or actual inconsistencies in reality

Because she was his grandmother

I thought it was a future Earth at first but im pretty sure it's just an Earth from another universal cycle that was similar to our own. Whether it happened before or after our universal cycle is impossible to know

Page 2 of Shadow:
>“Someone’s coming,” Roche whispered. Drotte jerked Eata out.
>(...) I would have hidden, but Roche held me, saying, “Wait, I see pikes.”
>(...) In the recesses of my mind we stand shivering there even now. Just as all that appears imperishable tends toward its own destruction, those moments that at the time seem the most fleeting recreate themselves—
>not only in my memory (which in the final accounting loses nothing)
>(...) The men had no armor, as I could soon see by the sickly yellow light of the lanterns; but they had pikes, as Drotte had said, and staves and hatchets.

demon prince series comes close

Yes, I'm well aware of the many contradictions. What is your point?