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2025 Gene Wolfe Almanac: 26 Pieces
A hodgepodge, a miscellany, of twenty-six pieces on the fiction of Gene Wolfe.
Wolfe's enigmatic work The Fifth Head of Cerberus commands the lion's share, with ten pieces amounting to 37% of the page count. The Urth Cycle clocks in at a respectable second place with seven pieces totaling 25% of the page count. In addition there are three pieces on The Book of the Long Sun, and one piece each related to Peace, the young adult novel The Devil in a Forest, and the Soldier series.
The collection is rounded out with three "general" pieces, one on the content of a science fiction anthology that had tremendous impact upon Wolfe as a child; another on Wolfe's use of two different versions of Pinocchio; and a third working toward an index of Wolfe's writings in a trade magazine, his day-job for many years before he became a full-time author.
Also included are corrections for three other works from Sirius Gene Wolfe's First Four A Chapter Guide errata, Gate of Horn, Book of Silk errata, and Lexicon Urthus (Second Edition, revised) errata.
Wolfe's enigmatic work The Fifth Head of Cerberus commands the lion's share, with ten pieces amounting to 37% of the page count. The Urth Cycle clocks in at a respectable second place with seven pieces totaling 25% of the page count. In addition there are three pieces on The Book of the Long Sun, and one piece each related to Peace, the young adult novel The Devil in a Forest, and the Soldier series.
The collection is rounded out with three "general" pieces, one on the content of a science fiction anthology that had tremendous impact upon Wolfe as a child; another on Wolfe's use of two different versions of Pinocchio; and a third working toward an index of Wolfe's writings in a trade magazine, his day-job for many years before he became a full-time author.
Also included are corrections for three other works from Sirius Gene Wolfe's First Four A Chapter Guide errata, Gate of Horn, Book of Silk errata, and Lexicon Urthus (Second Edition, revised) errata.
145 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 5, 2024
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