Ultan’s Library

Michael Andre-Driussi examines the wordlist of the Japanese lexicon for The Book of the New Sun.

Scott Wowra talks to Ultan contributor (and Gene Wolfe expert) Michael Andre-Driussi.

There’s a brief interview with Gene Wolfe over at Sci Fi Wire in an article highlighting his new novel, An Evil Guest. In the interview, Wolfe confirms that he’s currently working on two new novels. The first, entitled The Sorcerer’s House, is “almost ready to go to the agency”, while the second, Home Fires, is still in [...]

Delighted by the recent publication of a new edition of the Lexicon Urthus, Master Ultan tracks down Wolfe scholar Michael Andre-Driussi to find out how he came to write this invaluable reference work.

A 35mm film version of Gene Wolfe’s story “The Death of Doctor Island” is currently in production. The live-action footage has been shot and work is now proceeding on the computer graphics and effects. The producers are still trying to raise money to finish the project, however, and are making various sponsorship packages available, including [...]

First published in 1994, the Lexicon Urthus provides an invaluable guide to the meaning of many of the obscure words which Gene Wolfe uses in The Book of the New Sun and The Urth of the New Sun. It lists all the characters in those works and in Wolfe’s short stories set on Urth, explaining [...]

Good to see the publication of a new article on Ultan’s Library, and the redesign of the whole site to boot.
Nigel