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Gene Wolfe News and Rumors Logged by Paul Duggan

Tuesday, November 06, 2007

Soldier of Sidon has won the World Fantasy Award for 2006. The World Fantasy Award is presented annually at the World Fantasy Convention, this year held in Saratoga Springs, New York.

The first novel of the Soldier series, Soldier in the Mist was nominated for a WMA in 1987, but lost to Patrick Suskind's Perfume (King's It also lost. In 1990, Soldier of Arete, the second novel, was nominated (along with Tim powers novel the Stress of Her regard, but lost to Jack Vance's Lyonesse: Madouc. Both Soldier novels are now collected in Latro in the Mist.

Wolfe's Wizard Knight was nominated for a WFA in 2005, but lost to Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. Wolfe won a Life Achievement award in 1996.




In 1989, Wolfe's anthology Storeys from the Old Hotel tied for best collection with Harlan Ellison's Angry Candy.

Wolfe's first New Sun book, Shadow of the Torturer, won a WFA award in 1980, and Claw and Lictor were nominated later, but didn't win.

Soldier of Sidon will be released in a paperback edition in early december. You can preorder from Amazon.com (and support this site) by clicking the link. Thanks!

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We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges. When soldiers take their oath they are given a coin, an asimi stamped with the profile of the Autarch. Their acceptance of that coin is their acceptance of the special duties and burdens of military life--they are soldiers from that moment, though they may know nothing of the management of arms. I did not know that then, but it is a profound mistake to believe that we must know of such things to be influenced by them, and in fact to believe so is to believe in the most debased and superstitious kind of magic. The would-be sorcerer alone has faith in the efficacy of pure knowledge; rational people know that things act of themselves or not at all.
The Shadow of the Torturer, Gene Wolfe.


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