tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33161202009-10-13T12:22:24.965-04:00Gene Wolfe News and Rumors Logged by <a href="mailto:pdweb@verizon.net">Paul Duggan</a> pduggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09832284495239324375noreply@blogger.comBlogger108125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3316120.post-13507636579964046862009-10-13T12:21:00.002-04:002009-10-13T12:22:24.973-04:00

According to io9.com, you can collaborate with Neil Gaiman on a novel via TwitterToday at noon EST (that's 9am Pacific time), Gaiman will begin an exquisite corpse story on the BBC Audiobooks America Twitter account with a single tweet. Other Twitter users can then contribute to the story with their own tweets (all tweets must include @BBCAA and #bbcawdio, cutting into those precious 140

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The Sorcerer's House is forthcoming in March of 2010, according to Amazon. You can pre-order it at the link. According to Risingshadow.net it is an epistolary novelabout a confidence man who is released from jail and goes to buy an old house in the country, offering to do the work of renovating it in exchange for a deal on the price. His offer is accepted in accordance with the will left by the

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Gene Wolfe will be a guest at DragonCon in Atlanta, GA, September 4-7.

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A detailed an interesting article by Carlo Rotella about the influence and work of Jack Vance is in the New York TimesNo mention of Wolfe though.What is mentioned is Songs of the Dying EarthAlso arriving in bookstores this month is “Songs of the Dying Earth,” a collection of stories by other writers set in the far-future milieu that Vance introduced in some of his first published stories, which

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Mike Mearls, a D&D 4th Edition designer, comments on the literary inspiration for some of the new classes and mechanicsAvenger: Ripping aside the ethereal nature of Wolf's Book of the New Sun and treating it as a comic book of sorts, Severian the torturer was a major influence on this class's initial feel and direction. Obviously its divine roots steered in a different direction, but I can easily

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The Internet Review of Science Fiction has put up an article by Michael Andre-Driussi: What Gene Wolfe Expects of His Readers. He discusses how Urth of the New Sun makes clear some of the mysteries that the original tetralogy left concealed.Michael Andre-Driussi is the author of the Lexicon Urthus, an excellent guide to the New Sun books. The Lexicon is now in a new edition.

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At the National Review Online, John J Miller interviews Gene Wolfe about The Best of Gene Wolfe, a new collection of some of Wolfe's best short stories. “Petting Zoo,” “The Tree Is My Hat,” “The Island of Dr. Death and Other Stories,” “The Hero as Werewolf,” “Seven American Nights,” “Westwind,” “The Detective of Dreams,” and “A Cabin on the Coast” are among the stories.

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XKCDs latest comic Fiction Rule of Thumb implies "Book of the New Sun for the Win!" at least.

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Amazon is listing The Best of Gene Wolfe: A Definitive Retrospective of His Finest Short Fiction as a hardcover release from Tor books in March of 2009. The Tor Spring catalog saysFrom a literary perspective, this will certainly be the best collection of the year in science fiction and fantasy. Gene Wolfe, of whom the Washington Post said, "Of all SF writers currently active none is held in

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The anthology of stories inspired by Jack Vance's Dying Earth series was mentioned a while back. The editors are George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois.It seems the Hardcover edition from Subterranean Press is up for pre-order on Amazon.com, with a December 10, 2008 release date (click the link). That release date may be somewhat optimistic.The product page at Subterranean Press provides more

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Today I discovered the following:A Wolfe WikiAnother Wolfe blogger (Hoof & Hide)Japanese editions of Wolfe covers. Also see this.I'm sure there's more to come.Update: Like Hoof and Hide's comprehensive gallery of Wolfe covers. Very nice. I like the Japanese one for Island of Doctor Death.

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Clarkesworld Magazine published an Interview with Gene Wolfe by Jeremy L. C. Jones. Lots of comment on writing, revision, and the teaching of writing.

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Michael Andre-Driussi informs me that the Lexicon Urthus, Second Edition, the wonderful reference to Gene Wolfe' Urth series is forthcoming soonI am pleased to announce that on August 1, 2008, the Second Edition of Lexicon Urthus will go on sale.Hardcover: $39.95Paperback:$19.95 (the current Amazon price of $29.95 is wrong and we're fixing it)Specifications: 440 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 20 b/w

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Charlie Jane Anders writes of 7 Reasons Why Scifi Book Series Outstay Their Welcomes at io9.com. Under the category of "the need to explain the meaning of everything, Wolfe crops upAnother example: Gene Wolfe's Urth Of The New Sun series, which is a five-book follow-up [sic] to the four-book Book Of The New Sun series. In the Urth books, Wolfe tries to tie everything from the first series

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Centipede Press, publisher of high-end, pricey illustrated limited editions of famous SF and Horror works (along with artbooks), is publishing a high-end, pricey ($225) limited (300 copies) edition of Shadow of the Torturer. Their single image web page about the book is viewable, and they appear to be taking orders.Cloth - Printed on 100# Mohawk Superfine. Bound in suedel luxe cloth, with seven

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Amazon lists Wolfe's forthcoming Lovecraftian novel An Evil Guest as forthcoming in September. You can pre-order the book by clicking on the link, which takes you to Amazon.com. Neil Gaiman commented on this earlier. Nick Gevers, who is reading an advanced copy says of its style:It's third person, near-future, which squares with "Memorare", and shapeshifters appear to be involved.

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It seems that the long out-of-print Lexicon Urthus may be due for a second edition. The publisher is taking email addresses to be notified of its publication at the Sirius Fiction Home Page

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Tor Books to offer social networking, original short fiction and nonfiction online.Tor is Wolfe's publisher, but no mention of Wolfe's involvement.The first free books for signupOur next free book is Old Man's War by John Scalzi, 2006's winner of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Next week, Through Wolf's Eyes by Jane Lindskold.

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Gene Wolfe will be appearing on several panels at Capricon, a pirate-themed con February 14-17, in Arlington Heights, Illinois.

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Easter Sunday, is a straightforward religious short by Wolfe.Or...is it?

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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

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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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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

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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 (

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SFScope reports that Gardner Dozois and George R.R. Martin have sold a Jack Vance tribute anthology, Songs of the Dying Earth to Tor Books. Publication is possibly in 2009. No mention of Wolfe being invited to write a story, or Gary Gygax for that matter.

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