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.”
The editors of Ultan’s Library should like to send Gene Wolfe many congratulations and warm best wishes on his 80th birthday, today 7 May 2011. We wish him continuing health and vigour and avidly look forward to reading all the books, stories and essays which he has still to write. Jonathan Laidlow & Nigel Price
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 [...]
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.
Republishing electronic copies of Jeremy Crampton’s 1980s Wolfe fanzine THE BOOK OF GOLD.
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.
Michael Andre-Driussi’s 90s essay, written for the proposed Clute collection of essays on Wolfe, but never published until now
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 [...]
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.
by Peter Wright Since its publication in 1972, The Fifth Head of Cerberus, Gene Wolfe’s collection of three inter-linked novellas, has earned a reputation for being the author’s most perplexing single volume. Such a reputation is entirely justified since ambiguity is the watchword to the text. More significantly, it is also an organising principle of [...]