gene wolfe

Jack Vance who gave us the Dying Earth Book , The Demon Prince novels ect ect or Gene Wolfe who gave us the book of the Ne sun series , . The Knight and The Wizard duelolgy , The Latro trilogy ect ect which of the town...

One of the truly great literary talents to work in the field of imaginative fiction: Gene Wolfe (1931-2019)

My website hosted a piece by Wolfe scholar Michael Andre-Driussi (Lexicon Urthus) about the origins of the Book of the New Sun: The Feast of Saint Katharine (with a “K”)

Soldier of Sidon Gene Wolfe Tor, Oct 2006, $24.95 ISBN: 0765316641 Due to war injuries Latro’s short term memory is lost. When he wakes up he remembers nothing of the previous day. To compensate, he has learned to write down everything important that happened that day, a desperately needed...

An Evil Guest Gene Wolfe Tor, Sep 2008, $25.95 ISBN: 9780765321336 A century from now, the President of the United States makes a fervent request of academia private detective wizard Gideon Chase, known for solving problems no one else can. He wants the wizard to figure out how Bill Reis gets...

The Best of Gene Wolfe: A Definitive Retrospective of His Finest Short Fiction Gene Wolfe Tor, Mar 17 2009, $27.95 ISBN: 9780765321350 This superb anthology lets the 31 tales sell the talent of the author to science fiction and fantasy readers; as the compilation jumps right into the stories...

Home Fires Gene Wolfe Tor, Jan 18 2011, $24.99 ISBN 9780765328182 Due to an interstellar military duty, affluent attorney Skip Grison is now two decades older than his contracted paramour Chelle Blue though they were the same age when they met at college. Her time in outer space was months, but...

Started this a couple of nights ago and finding it quite unusual. I'm quite widely read and have a degree in English so I'm capable of dealing with the text. My question/quandary - it's unlike most other literature I've read over the last few years which has been a combination of fantasy...

Hello- So which version of 'Free Live Free' is preferable? I haven't read Gene Wolfe's 'Free Live Free' but plan on doing so soon. It just so happens I have both the 1984 Mark V. Ziesing small press edition and the standard 1986 Tor mass market version on my shelf. Several places online...

Jonathan Laidlow of Ultan's Library and myself recently completed a brief interview with TBOTNS artist Bruce Pennington. Some interesting new insights. Here's the link - enjoy!

I'm on my third read through of The Book of the New Sun. While several of the mysteries have been solved, I'm still frustrated with a few: 1) How does the Claw work? I understand it's all Severian's doing, and he uses the claw to focus his energies, but why does it work sometimes and not...

Gollancz has just released the titles of its 50th anniversary special reprints, and The Book of the New Sun is on the list, along with a number of other favorites, new and old: http://www.gollancz50.com/ I kind of like the retro look ... I will probably be adding this to my collection when it...

Do any of you Wolfe fans have Castle of the Otter? How is it? I am slowly increasing my Wolfe collection, and will probably buy a copy soon. I think I have about 25 of his books at home (combination of short stories and novels). I am very intrigued by this book, and had no idea it was so...

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So I just found out that there are two omnibus editions of The Book of the New Sun. One was put out by the Science Fiction Book Club, and the other by a UK publishing house, entitled "Severian of the Guild." They both clock in at ~950 pages. I remember reading in a forum somewhere that there...

I'm taking a philosophy class that deals largely with what the teacher calls modern literature, post-modern literature, and metafiction. By her definition, this essentially means stories that are mostly about the story itself (meaning there is no particular lesson to be learned by the end of...

Gene's latest novel Homes Fires was released today. Hardcover is $16.49 on Amazon. Kindle version is $11.99. I will buy it soon, not sure if I'll get to it before I finish the Long and Short Sun. Here's a description from Amazon: "Gene Wolfe takes us to a future North America at once...

So after a sojourn into some other books on my reading list, I am starting off a Gene Wolfe stint. I am almost done with The Urth of the New Sun, and plan to read the Long Sun books after that. So far I am enjoying Urth, but not as much as TBONS ... I find it to be incredibly different. The...

There is another New Sun/Long Sun thread, I think it deserves its own thread though. I finished Nightside the Long Sun last night and I really enjoyed it. It almost didn't feel like a Sun book, the prose was not as dense as in New Sun and although it takes place on a ship, it felt like it...

Finished this over the weekend. I wasn't sure I would like this after reading the mixed reviews on Amazon. Reading such comments as it is mostly talking and eating and not much happens. Well, that is true, however I really enjoyed the book. While there is not a lot in the way of action-then...