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.
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 Jeremy Crampton Abstract This document briefly examines the use of torture and confession in Gene Wolfe’s Book of the New Sun and how it both differs from and reflects actual historical practice (at least in Europe and America). It is not the purpose of these notes to provide a full or sustained argument, merely [...]