Forthcoming Wolfe:
An Evil Guest
forthcoming in SeptemberGene Wolfe News and Rumors Logged by Paul Duggan
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
XKCDs latest comic Fiction Rule of Thumb implies "Book of the New Sun for the Win!" at least.posted by pduggie 10:56 AM | leave a comment |
Thursday, August 21, 2008
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 says
From 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 higher esteem," has selected the short fiction he considers his finest into one volume. There are many award winners and many that have been selected for various Year's Best anthologies among the thirty-one stories, which include:"Petting Zoo," "The Tree Is My Hat," "The Island of Dr. Death and Other Stories," "The Hero as Werewolf," "Seven American Nights," "The Fifth Head of Cerberus," "The Detective of Dreams," and "A Cabin on the Coast."You can preorder it at the link.
Gene Wolfe has produced possibly the finest and most significant body of short fiction in the SF and fantasy field in the last fifty years, and is certainly among the greatest living writers to emerge from the genres.
This is the first retrospective collection of his entire career.
It is for the ages.
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Wednesday, August 13, 2008
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 details on the book, including cover art by Tom Kidd and interior art (by Charles Vess, I think)
My thanks to anyone who pre-orders it from Amazon, as your purchases help support the site.
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Friday, August 08, 2008
Today I discovered the following:- A Wolfe Wiki
- Another Wolfe blogger (Hoof & Hide)
- Japanese editions of Wolfe covers. Also see this.
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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Monday, August 04, 2008
Clarkesworld Magazine published an Interview with Gene Wolfe by Jeremy L. C. Jones. Lots of comment on writing, revision, and the teaching of writing.posted by pduggie 9:39 PM | leave a comment |
Monday, July 14, 2008
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.Apparently the book will have an introduction by Wolfe.
Hardcover: $39.95
Paperback:$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 illustrations, 10 maps, 24 tables
This is a print on demand book, available through Amazon.com and through us directly, but Amazon will almost certainly offer a discount and we're not doing that yet. We expect most sales to be through Amazon and specialty bookstores, but since there are cases where Amazon might not reach a country or something, we offer to try and fill those orders.
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008
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 together, while throwing in a lot of mystical ideas, including kabbalah.
Clearly theres a small boo-boo there in terms of Urth's size. It's one book.posted by pduggie 10:41 PM | leave a comment |
Thursday, March 27, 2008
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 full color illustrations and a map with a cloth covered slipcase.They state it will have seven illustrations by Alexander Preuss, whose website I've linked to previously. You can see some new New Sun related illustrations by the artist currently, including a map of sorts. It looks like the artists site is a fair preview of the illustrations to be included in the limited edition.
The Centipede Press Site image says that the full set of all four books will be available in "Spring of 2008", but that the Shadow of the Torturer would be available in "August". I can only assume, since the Millipede Press site that is actually taking the orders (millipede and centipede are the same company) says that only Shadow is available, that we may not be getting the full set of all the books for a while longer.
posted by pduggie 10:19 PM | leave a comment |
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
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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Tuesday, February 26, 2008
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 Pageposted by pduggie 9:01 PM | leave a comment |
Monday, February 18, 2008
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 signup
Our 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.
posted by pduggie 8:51 PM | leave a comment |
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Gene Wolfe will be appearing on several panels at Capricon, a pirate-themed con February 14-17, in Arlington Heights, Illinois.posted by pduggie 8:08 PM | leave a comment |
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Easter Sunday, is a straightforward religious short by Wolfe.Or...is it?
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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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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!posted by pduggie 1:48 PM | leave a comment |
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
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.posted by pduggie 8:39 PM | leave a comment |
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
I had some configuration problems with the atom syndication feed. I think they're fixed now, and you should be able to read the Lupine Nuncio here:http://mysite.verizon.net/~vze2tmhh/w_archives/lupine.xml
posted by pduggie 5:07 PM | leave a comment |
John Jopseph Adams is the editor of a new collection of apocalyptic SF, entitled Wastelands, Stories of the Apocalypse. Gene Wolfe contributes the story "Mute", and contributors include Stephen King, Orson Scott Card, George R. R. Martin, Cory Doctorow, and others. John Joseph Adams hosts a site about the book, where you can read three of the stories in their entirety, and excerpts of others, including Wolfe's "Mute"This story is about two children who return home, find an empty house, and are forced to grow up in a hurry. It first appeared in the program book for the 2002 World Horror Convention, where Wolfe was guest of honor.The site was down recently but is back up this morning
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