a resource for the study of Gene Wolfe
Editors: Jonathan Laidlow & Nigel Price
The new version of Ultan is gradually replacing this one: click here to see it. The links below now take you to articles and book reviews in the new format.
Latest:
Michael Andre-Driussi, The Death of Catherine the Weal and Other Stories (1992) [published August 08]
Older:
Michael Andre-Driussi - Lions and Tigers and Bears . . . of the New Sun [published December 03]
Jeremy Crampton - Torture and confession in Wolfe's Book of the New Sun [published April 01]
Nick Gevers - Five Steps Towards Briah: Gene Wolfe's The Book of the Long Sun [published 00]
Jeremy Crampton - Some Greek Themes in Gene Wolfe's Latro novels [published 00]
Lexicon Urthus new edition
Michael Andre-Driussi's legendary guide to the words in Wolfe's Book of the New Sun, Lexicon Urthus, is now available in a revised edition. It is available via Amazon.co.uk in a hardback and paperback edition. For non-European readers you can either order directly from Michael at Sirius Fiction, or Amazon.com.
To celebrate this major work of Wolfe scholarship, we present Michael's 1992 essay Catherine the Weal and hope to interview Michael in the near future.
Wolfe interviewed
At Clarkesworld magazine
The Book of the New Sun reviewed by Peter Wright
On Blue's Waters reviewed by Nigel Price
Strange Travelers reviewed by Michael Andre-Driussi
The Fifth Head of Cerberus reviewed by Robert Borsk
The Book of Gold: Jeremy Crampton's rare Wolfe fanzine from 1989: #01 and #02 (PDF)
Uncollected Short Fiction by Gene Wolfe - a
checklist-in-progress
Secondary
Bibliography - a working bibliography of critical material on Gene Wolfe
About
the Contributors - further details of our
writers
Links to other Gene Wolfe and Science Fiction websites and resources
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