British publisher Gollancz is celebrating 50 years of publishing science fiction and fantasy by republishing some of the best titles in their list, among them Gene Wolfe’s Book of the New Sun. The Gollancz blog discusses the reissue. Then Gollancz author and Wolfe fan Alastair Reynolds talks about the Book of the New Sun in [...]
Today, May 14 2011, author Neil Gaiman writes about Gene Wolfe for the “My Hero” section of the UK’s Guardian newspaper. The Guardian previously (2009) ran a discussion of the Book of the New Sun as “Science Fiction’s Ulysses.”
Superb interview with Gene this month at Black Gate: blackgate.com interviews Gene Wolfe
The Best of Gene Wolfe has won the 2010 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection. The collection was published by Tor and PS Publishing. More info @Locus
Stephen Palmer This is an amended version of an article I wrote almost twenty years ago for the British BSFA magazine Vector. The original version was entitled Looking Behind the Sun: Religious Implications of Gene Wolfe’s “The Book of the New Sun” and was published in the August 1991 edition. The Book of the New [...]
According to Locus, Gene had heart surgery on 24 April. It apparently went well and he is recovering with his family. Gene is 78. Full article at Locus online.
Michael Andre-Driussi’s latest work of Wolfe scholarship now available at retailers
Republishing electronic copies of Jeremy Crampton’s 1980s Wolfe fanzine THE BOOK OF GOLD.
Gene Wolfe’s latest novel, An Evil Guest, will be published in hardback by Tor later this month in the USA. Described as “Lovecraft meets Blade Runner”. You can purchase it from Amazon UK using the link below, although Amazon UK seems to think it’s coming out in November. It’s the same ISBN, so this may [...]
Michael Andre-Driussi’s 90s essay, written for the proposed Clute collection of essays on Wolfe, but never published until now
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by Michael Andre-Driussi 1. The Strange Bear Man at the Threshold The first time I read The Urth of the New Sun, one scene tantalized me more than any other. I could see just enough to know that there was a great deal I could not see yet. The symbols were there, I just could [...]