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	Lupine Nuncio - Gene Wolfe News and Rumors
		Gene Wolfe is a science fiction writer, and author of many novels and short stories.
		Wolfe's fiction is dense but rewarding, and his use of language is often stunning.
		Wolfe's last completed work was another series of novels set in the same universe as The Book of the New Sun, but in a very different environment: a miles-long hollow spaceship transporting humanity to colonize the stars.
	mysite.verizon.net /~vze2tmhh/wolfe.html (1580 words)

	Gene Wolfe
		Wolfe has effortlessly created a totally believable society, while telling us the minimum we need to know, and treated us to that fundamental of science fiction which is all to often missing from novels by the modern exponents - sense of wonder.
		In Lake Wolfe reveals just how integral the role of Calde is to life in the world of the Long Sun and how the rulers of Silk's city have done away with the position in order to usurp its power for themselves.
		Gene Wolfe is back with the third in his Book of the Long Sun series in which his central character, Patera Silk, is officially raised from humble pastor to the heady rank of Calde.
	www.albedo1.com /html/gene_wolfe.html (991 words)

	Gene Wolfe
		Gene Wolfe (born May 7, 1931) is an American science fiction writer.
		Wolfe fought in the Korean War and after returning to the United States became an industrial engineer.
		Although not a best-selling author, Wolfe is extremely highly regarded by critics and fellow writers, and considered by many to be one of the best living science fiction authors.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ge/Gene_Wolfe.html (462 words)

	Gene Wolfe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wolfe fought in the Korean War, and after returning to the United States became an industrial engineer, receiving his degree from Texas AandM University.
		Wolfe is possibly a distant relative of author Thomas Wolfe.
		Wolfe then wrote a sequel of sorts, The Book of the Short Sun, composed of On Blue's Waters (1999), In Green's Jungles (2000) and Return to the Whorl (2001), dealing with colonists who have arrived on the sister planets Blue and Green.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gene_Wolfe (1380 words)

	The Templeton Gate - Authors - Gene Wolfe
		Wolfe began writing short stories in the late '50s, but for some inexplicable reason his first publication did not come until 1965, a situation which should be encouraging to any hopeful writer.
		Wolfe first and foremost is an artist at word-play and names, and he is at times purposefully a trickster.
		One of the major influences on Wolfe's life and his writing is his Catholic faith, so it is fitting that Severian in no small way can be construed to be a Christ-like figure, whose return to the power and glory of the throne was foretold by the ancients.
	members.tripod.com /templetongate/genewolfe.htm (3726 words)

	Gene Wolfe Novels
		It's written in a rather clearer, simpler, prose style than Wolfe used for the New Sun books, though there are still plenty of ambiguities, symbols, and hard to explain events.
		Wolfe's next project is a very long fantasy novel, to appear in two volumes, collectively called The Wizard Knight.
		Wolfe is, I believe, the single finest writer the SF field has yet produced.
	www.sff.net /people/richard.horton/wolfe.htm (1524 words)

	Gene Wolfe
		Gene Wolfe is best known for his Book of the New Sun series and its follow up sagas, all featuring the one-time professional torturer Severian.
		Yet Wolfe is not obsessed with such themes and so the wonder of the early novels is how something so shocking and exotic becomes almost background to the larger plot.
		In addition, Wolfe's early interest in mystery novels shines through in his ability to drop subtle, ambiguous clues that allow the reader to grasp at the possible narrative behind the narrative.
	www.nndb.com /people/554/000092278 (717 words)

	Gene Wolfe Biography and List of Works - Gene Wolfe Books
		Gene Wolfe (born May 7, 1931) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer.
		Wolfe subsequently wrote The Book of the Short Sun, which is composed of On Blue's Waters (1999), In Green's Jungles (2000) and Return to the Whorl (2001), and deals with the colonists who have arrived on the planets Blue and Green.
		Although not a best-selling author, Wolfe is extremely highly regarded by critics and fellow writers, and considered by many to be one of the best living science fiction authors.
	www.biblio.com /authors/242/Gene_Wolfe_Biography.html (579 words)

	Positive Liberty » Blog Archive » More on Gene Wolfe
		Wolfe copies his words direct, and this seems at odds with language shift and historical “re-writing” (which Dennis L. McKiernan also does — but in case one misses it, also J. Tolkein), which should attempt to retell a phrase or a word in a current context.
		Wolfe has “translated” Severians manuscript into English and by chosing the words directly, as you say, instead of trying to capture some native style of Severian’s language he puts focus on the distance to Urth.
		Now, Wolfe could invent new words for these things and concepts, but if he did then Urth would just seem like a strange place and that would be the end of that.
	positiveliberty.com /2006/08/more-on-gene-wolfe.html (2857 words)

	Borges - Influence: Gene Wolfe
		The world that Wolfe paints is a tired and already decadent future, rich with anachronisms and run down by an apocalyptic sense of entropy.
		Gene Wolfe is targeted for his own corner of the Libyrinth sometime within the next year.
		Gene Wolfe Page – Maintained by Paul Duggan, this is a highly resourceful site with news, images, bibliographical information, and links.
	www.themodernword.com /borges/borges_infl_wolfe.html (750 words)

	Rambles: Gene Wolfe, The Knight
		I have never read any of Wolfe's books, but he has such a reputation among the SF crowd that I decided to give this book a chance.
		I don't know whether Wolfe is showing us how these scenes are ultimately uninteresting or if it's a conceit of Able's narration, but I found it intriguing how the text shies away from the subject.
		Wolfe takes everything you thought you knew and turns out a thoroughly unpredictable read that will keep you going well past your bedtime.
	www.rambles.net /wolfe_knight03.html (964 words)

	Peter Wright reconsiders the Book of the New Sun
		Wolfe is subtle as well as bold, lavish with sly puzzles, mysteries and revelations that have had more than one reader waking up in the middle of the night saying, 'My God, it can't be!' But it is. Second and third readings are indicated.
		In short, Wolfe organises the text to be understood only by those readers willing to question their own literary assumptions, pause, reflect, and reread.
		Wolfe's presentation of his rational sf novel as a non-rational fantasy, together with his subversion of the Campbellian heroic cycle, provide an insight not only into the possibilities of the genre but also into how habitual modes of reading inform and construct the reader's reception of a text.
	artsweb.bham.ac.uk /jlaidlow/ultan/botns.htm (3119 words)

	Gene Wolfe The Wizard Reviewed by Katie Dean
		Wolfe's intentions are no clearer in this novel than in its predecessor and anyone looking for answers to the many mysteries that Wolfe has created will be disappointed.
		Wolfe's world remains as much a mystery by the final page as it did at the beginning.
		Wolfe adds nothing to the genre: there is no alternate understanding of mythical ideas and no development of traditions.
	trashotron.com /agony/reviews/2005/wolfe-the_wizard.htm (622 words)

	SF REVIEWS.NET: The Knight / Gene Wolfe
		The adolescent propensity for flights of fancy and the sense of wonder would seem to be a thematic subtext of Gene Wolfe's The Knight, the first in a two-volume saga that constitutes 2004's first published exercise in truly extraordinary mythmaking.
		I say "seems" because, as is often the case with Wolfe, there is much more here than meets the eye, and different interpretations of the narrative suggest themselves.
		Gene Wolfe is the kind of writer fantasy needs, though its fans probably don't realize it.
	www.sfreviews.net /knightwolfe.html (901 words)

	Some Moments with the Magus: An Interview with Gene Wolfe - infinity plus non-fiction
		In the Wolfe canon, all the mature texts, novels or tales, plainly or baroquely narrated, are rich with recomplicated significance; and even after many readings, the ferments of speculation they cause will never truly close.
		The present focus is partly on Wolfe's previous writings, which continue to excite fascinated interpretation and debate; partly on The Wizard Knight, a notable new epic, of which Book One, The Knight, appears from Tor in January 2004; and partly on Wolfe's current thinking and personal circumstances...
		Gene Wolfe links abound, but a good place to start is the Wolfe studies site, Ultan's Library.
	www.infinityplus.co.uk /nonfiction/intgw.htm (2558 words)

	June '06 BOTM: Peace by Gene Wolfe - sffworld.com
		Gene Wolfe loves using sub-stories within his novels (at least in those I've read), and I'm not sure I always pick up on their point.
		Compared to many other writers of a more literary bent, he uses a relatively straight-forward prose, with few metaphores and similes, but this is weighed up by a percision and a musicality of language that probably is unrivalled within the fantastical genres and has few peers outside of them.
		Reading a story by Gene Wolfe is like taking a ride on one of the big sailing ships of old.
	www.sffworld.com /forums/showthread.php?t=13970 (3507 words)

	Lupine Nuncio - Gene Wolfe News and Rumors
		On June 16, Gene Wolfe will be inducted, along with three others, into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame, in Seattle.
		Gene Wolfe has a new novel coming out in November, called Pirate Freedom.
		Its a good general introduction to Wolfe's prominent New Sun and Soldier novels for a religious audience that might not otherwise be interested in a science fiction author.
	mysite.verizon.net /~vze2tmhh/wolfeblog.html (1253 words)

	Gene Wolfe
		Huvudskälet till Wolfes relativa improduktivitet under sjuttiotalet blev uppenbart när han 1980 utgav Torterarens skugga, den första boken i det väldiga romanbygge han kallade "Den nya solens bok" och som han senare dessutom utsträckt ytterligare, så att verket vid det här laget omfattar totalt tretton böcker.
		Wolfe skriver i intrikata associationer; hans verk återspeglar och alluderar på klassisk litteratur, motiv och teman inom och utom science fiction och genomsyras av katolicismens religiösa och filosofiska grundsatser.
		Gene Wolfes berättelser är ett spel med identiteter och associationer, sanning och lögn; litteratur inte som en spegel av verkligheten utan som en spegelsal där varje reflektion visar en bild skild från de andras, och där samtidigt reflektionerna reflekteras i varandra, transformeras, parodieras och mångfaldigas.
	www.sfbok.se /bok/portratt/por12.asp (2389 words)

	Gene Wolfe, Latro in the Mist
		Gene Wolfe is one of the highest-regarded writers of fantasy and science fiction today.
		Wolfe has thought out very carefully what life would be like for a person so afflicted: how would he know friend from foe, from one day to the next?
		Perhaps Wolfe is uncertain as to whether he plans to finish this work or not; perhaps it's simply something he's never come round to doing.
	www.greenmanreview.com /book/book_wolfe_latro.html (982 words)

	Amazon.fr : Strange Travelers: Livres en anglais: Gene Wolfe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The other strange tales in Wolfe's collection include a thought-provoking campfire horror story set in the far future; the story of the "mother" of intelligent robots being pursued by one of the beings she unwittingly helped create; and the adventures of three female time travelers, castaways on the shores of Earth.
		While Wolfe's prose is exceptional and there are a few gems here, such as "Useful Phrases," which delights in how words lead us to and reveal mysteries, there are also several tasteless and misogynistic entries.
		Chief among them is "The Ziggurat," in which a mother coaches her daughters in the art of false accusation and the father--whose wife leaves him broke-eventually regains all by finding a woman he can dominate and a technology he can steal.
	www.amazon.fr /Strange-Travelers-Gene-Wolfe/dp/031287278X (1106 words)

	Science Fiction Weekly Interview
		Wolfe: Well, I was trying to find some specific points on classical mythology, not just research classical mythology.
		Wolfe: No, it made me realize that it is easy to tell people how to write and extremely difficult to make them believe you.
		The editor is going to have a hearty laugh and throw that letter in the round file, and probably throw the story in the round file too, and then say he never received it when you say why didn't you send the manuscript back.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue253/interview.html (6769 words)

	Edward Champion’s Return of the Reluctant » Wolfe, Gene
		Ultan’s Library: A journal for the study of Gene Wolfe.
		Wolfe on Lord of the Rings: “Philology led [Tolkien] to the study of the largely illiterate societies of Northern Europe between the fall of Rome and the beginning of the true Middle Ages (roughly AD 400 to 1000).
		And, just as Gene Wolfe’s new book, The Knight, has escaped the floodgates, the folks over at Infinity Plus have an interview up with the maestro.
	www.edrants.com /?cat=228 (1143 words)

	Kata Iwannhn » How to Read Gene Wolfe
		Gene Wolfe is of the second kind, and the intelligence is less important than the tale.
		Wolfe then followed up this novel with another, The Urth of the New Sun, which has the same main character and which ties together some of the loose ends of the earlier book(s).
		I suspect, though, that Wolfe’s female characters are the way they are because of the role he wants them to play in the story, but that the lack of more normal roles (other than virgin or whore) may be a flaw in his writing.
	barach.us /2007/03/03/how-to-read-gene-wolfe (1559 words)

	Latro, Cerebrus, Suns New, Long and Short - Gene Wolfe \| MetaFilter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Gene Wolfe's body of work in the science fiction field, along with that of Delany, Dick and Le Guin's, is perhaps the most influential of any writer of the past two decades.
		Of them all, Wolfe is the one least interested in technology, most interested in the uses of pure science in his fiction.
		Always one to envision the metaphorical possibilities of scientific ideas and images, Wolfe's fiction is so rich and evocative, his style so precise and complex, that much of his influence has been stylistic.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/30746 (2110 words)

	Arcane Words in THE SHADOW OF THE TORTURER
		Wolfe describes a building across the river, the "rounded dome of the khan".
		Wolfe uses it to describe some kind of mercenary weapon with a long staff, but the word is too obscure for the
		Wolfe may be referring to some strange variant of paterero (a small gun); he describes a soldier, walking in the dark, shouldering one of these, so it could easily be a weapon.
	www.pannis.com /SFDG/specific-Shadow-2.html (4300 words)

	Gene Wolfe -- Recent and Upcoming Books
		Gene Wolfe is a two-time winner of the Nebula Award and is author of Peace and The Book of the New Sun.
		Gene Wolfe's first novel consists of three linked sections, all of them elegant broodings on identity, sameness, and strangeness, and all of them set on the vividly evoked colony worlds of Ste.
		Wolfe's new work returns to the world of his acclaimed Book of the New Sun and will captivate readers hungry for the magic of the future.
	www.non.com /books/Wolfe_Gene_r.html (1593 words)

	Gene Wolfe Biography and Summary
		Gene Rodman Wolfe was born in Brooklyn, the son of Roy Emerson and Mary Olivia Ayres Wolfe.
		[Gene Wolfe's The Devil in a Forest] may or may not be a fantasy; there is a passing reference to something that may have been a supernatural incident in objective fact, rather than simply something that haunted the troubled sleep of Mark, the weaver's apprentice….
		Severian, as Autarch, sees himself as "an ancient buzzing with antiquity as a corpse with flies," and the description is apt as well for the narrative, in which Wolfe reveals a cyclical theory of time and space, not incompatible with Plato's, and the myth of the New Sun is at last adumbrated.
	www.bookrags.com /Gene_Wolfe (417 words)

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