Volume One: Shadow and Claw Volume Two: Sword and Citadel (Millennium, 2000) Reviewed by Peter Wright Long before its inclusion on Millennium’s SF Masterworks list, Gene Wolfe’s densely allusive four volume The Book of the New Sun (The Shadow of the Torturer (1980), The Claw of the Conciliator (1981), The Sword of the Lictor (1981) [...]
Gene Wolfe, The Fifth Head of Cerberus (Millennium, 1999) reviewed by Robert Borski “When I was a boy my brother David and I had to go to bed early whether we were tired or not.” So begins, with its Proustian echo, the titular novella of Gene Wolfe’s The Fifth Head of Cerberus, first published in [...]
Gene Wolfe, Strange Travelers (Orb, 2000) reviewed by Michael Andre-Driussi Here is a brand new collection of fifteen stories. Originally published in magazines, theme anthologies, and a program guide, they offer a wide variety of styles and modes for your reading and re-reading pleasures. Since this is a review, I’m going to fly through the [...]
Reviewed by Nigel Price. On Blue’s Waters is a fine book. Beautifully written, it is by turns thrilling and amusing, moving and intriguing but, like much of Wolfe’s work, it defies easy classification. The most commonly used description for Wolfe’s series novels is “science fantasy”. This can be a slippery and misleading category. Some science [...]