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Sun and Shield (Free subscription) | 06/21/2008
I have discovered a tribute written by Gene Wolfe , an honored fantasy author who is still writing. The tribute was written about Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy. The web page also includes poetry by C. S. Lewis, some other poetry, and brief correspondence between Wolfe and Tolkien. Should be interesting to anyone with a taste for Wolfe, Tolkien, or Lewis. (In my case, all three.) Thanks for...
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Sun and Shield (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
" 'A simple way would be to admit that myth is neither irresponsible fantasy, nor the object of weighty psychology, nor any other such thing. It is wholly other, and requires to be looked at with open eyes.' " p. 324 of Return to the Whorl: Volume Three of the Book of the Short Sun , by Gene Wolfe (New York: Tor Books, 2001) This is Horn (or Silk) the main character, reading from a randomly picked...
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Sun and Shield (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
I should go back and line out my mistake, I suppose, but I hate lining things out -- it gives the page such an ugly appearance. Besides, to line out is to accept responsibility for the correctness of all that is let stand. To correct that or any other error would be to invite you to ask me (when you read this, as I hope you soon will) why I failed to correct some other. And I cannot correct all or...
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TexasBestGrok (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
Gene Wolfe and Neil Gaiman: A Walking Tour of the Shambles (Little Walks for Sightseers #16) (American Fantasy, 2002, ISBN 0-9610352-6-9; cover art by Gahan...
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Velcro City Tourist Board (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
Oh yeah - in all the excitement*, I forgot to mention that my review of Gene Wolfe’s Severian Of The GuildSF Site omnibus went up at a few days back**. I haven’t dared re-read it yet, to be honest. The review, I mean. Though I haven’t re-read the book, either. I might one day, [...]
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Notes From Coode Street (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
The Evil Guest, forthcoming from Tor in September, is simply the most enjoyable Gene Wolfe novel I’ve ever read. I’ve read Wolfe novels that might have been more thought provoking or more intellectually rewarding, but this ’30s-style noir novel is a delight. The story? Cassie Casey is an actress working in Chicago about a [...]
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Notes From Coode Street (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
I’ll review this properly when I’m done. Honest. But for the moment, I’ve never enjoyed reading a Wolfe novel more than this one. I’m half way through, and it could go off the rails, but I don't think it will. So far it's riveting. I’m just drawn back to it again and again, no matter [...]
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SF Signal (Free subscription) | 04/14/2008
REVIEW SUMMARY : Time-traveling pirates - what is not to love? OK, there isn't really any science fiction in this story, but it is a fun book non the less. MY RATING : BRIEF SYNOPSIS : Father Chris is more than he appears when he admits to killing a man in his past. The story of how it happened takes you back to the time of real pirates raiding Spanish ships full of treasure from the new world. MY...
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Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine (Free subscription) | 04/14/2008
In one of the paragraphs on the back cover of this book, Gene Wolfe blurbs, ". . . it has the taste and feel and bouquet of the real thing it's Planet Stories come all the way back to roaring life again!" I beg to differ. In spite of the two introductions in which the authors proclaim their affection for the space operas of the early '50s, this book, intended as their tribute to them, doesn't even...
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SF Signal (Free subscription) | 04/02/2008
Gene Wolfe's next book, An Evil Guest is billed as "Lovecraft mets Blade Runner ." [via Claw of the Conciliator ] At Time magazine Lev Grossman & Matt Selman remind us about The Return of Neal Stephenson , specifically via his upcoming book Anathem . [sent via Fred K.] The Art Department gives us a sneak peek at John Scalzi's repackaged Agent to the Stars with it's shiny new cover . Now posted: Dave...
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io9 (Free subscription) | 03/24/2008
You can read several of the stories and novellas on the Hugo nominations list, including Elizabeth Bear's "Tideline," Ted Chiang's "The Merchant And The Alchemist's Gate," Gene Wolfe's "Memorare" and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Fresh Bilge (Free subscription) | 03/24/2008
Last evening I explored the fringes of an ouevre previously unknown to me: the work of Gene Wolfe, who emerged into sci-fi prominence just when I quit reading the genre in the early Eighties. I had become convinced that sci-fi was going astray under the influence of authors like Philip K. Dick, whose many successors [...]
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Palm 24/7 (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
Today's free eBook is Memorare by Gene Wolfe- "THE MOMENT MARCH Wildspring spotted the corpses, he launched himself across the shadowy mortuary chamber. He had aimed for the first, but with suit jets wide open he missed it and caught the third, flattening himself against it and rolling over with it so that it lay upon him. Bullets would have gotten him; but this was a serrated blade pivoting from a...
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SF Signal (Free subscription) | 03/02/2008
In his latest Overlooked or Over-hyped ? column, Neil Walsh looks at two books where the memories of their protagonists: The Wolves of Memory by George Alec Effinger and Soldier of Sidon by Gene Wolfe. Over at the blog I Should Be Writing , there's a podcast-interview with John Scalzi . Free fiction: " The King of Sentences " by Jonathan Lethem. [via Free Speculative Fiction Online ] Black Gate has...
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SF Signal (Free subscription) | 02/04/2008
Kathryn Cramer has posted the table of contents for the upcoming anthology she co-edits with David G. Hartwell: "Baby Doll" by Johanna Sinisalo "Aristotle OS" by Tony Ballantyne "The Last American" by John Kessel "Memorare" by Gene Wolfe "Plotters and Shooters" by Kage Baker "Repeating the Past" by Peter Watts "No More Stories" by Stephen Baxter "They Came From the Future" by Robyn Hitchcock "The...
