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“Tell me about the Lexicon Urthus”: an interview with 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.

Film version of “The Death of Doctor Island”

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 [...]

Lexicon Urthus, second edition

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 [...]

New Wolfe novel in September

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 [...]