Forthcoming Wolfe:
An Evil Guest
forthcoming in SeptemberGene Wolfe News and Rumors Logged by Paul Duggan
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Wyrm Publishing is offering a signed, limited edition of 500 of Memorare, a new Wolfe novellaHumans go into space for many reasons. For some it’s adventure and excitement. Others, it’s the solitude. And some choose it for their final resting place. March Wildspring is a freelance cameraman, working on a documentary on the memorials drifting in the emptiness of space. Some are lovely, peaceful monuments to the deceased. Others are built not to honor the dead but trap the living.The ordering page says its due in "winter", supposedly of 2007. The publisher, Neil Clarks, writes elsewhere
Memorial 19 is like nothing March has ever seen before. And when he and his crew enter it, they will not be allowed to leave unchanged....
For several reasons, including my ongoing battle with pneumonia, Wyrm Publishing's schedule has to be pushed back. Everything is still moving forward, just not at the pace I had hoped for. For example, I had hoped to have Memorare by Gene Wolfe in time for the holidays. Not going to happen. I can show you the final cover though.The cover is viewable at either link. A closeup of Bob Eggleston's cover is also viewable.
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Tuesday, December 11, 2007
ABALAKIN - The art of Alexander Preuss is a site with SFnal art, some of which is inspired by Wolfe stories.Like this one.
Some adult content.
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Sunday, December 02, 2007
Neil Gaiman writes of reading the manuscript of a forthcoming novel by WolfeFor the last week, a few chapters a night, because you don't want to eat it all at once, I've been reading Gene Wolfe's next novel AN EVIL GUEST. I think I need to read it again. (This is a perfectly valid way to feel on finishing a Gene Wolfe novel.) I'm going to write about it here by way of setting my thoughts in order. It's set about eighty years from now, sort of, although the future feels like a high tech 1930s (intentionally, I assume, because in Gene Wolfe fiction it is safe to assume that things are intentional), so much so that one finds oneself reading the book trying to find a key to open it. The obvious key is Lovecraft, whose initials are dropped early, and further inside the book we find Miskatonic University and Great Cthulhu Himself (although not quite by name) , although that still doesn't really help figure out what kind of thing it is one is reading.It'll be interesting to see a fully lovecraftain novel from Wolfe (besides Peace)
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