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 Sun is [...]
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 just [...]
by Michael Andre-Driussi.
This essay was written for John Clute’s proposed book of essays on Gene Wolfe’s fiction back in the early 90s. Never published until now, we publish it here to promote the publication of Michael’s new edition of Lexicon Urthus.
We’re currently revamping Ultan’s Library.
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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 [...]
by Robert Borski
I’ve now had the opportunity to read Peter Wright’s “Confounding the Skin and the Mask” several times and it continues to generate much thought.
