Gene Wolfe: 14 Articles on His Fiction

by Michael Andre-Driussi

Ten essays and four reviews, originally published from 1993 to 2014, in "The New York Review of Science Fiction," "Foundation," "Extrapolation," "Ultan's Library," "The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction," "The Internet Review of Science Fiction," "Quantum," and a chapbook on "The Fifth Head of Cerberus." Some of them are available for free online, but many are hard to find. Topics
*Six pieces on "The Book of the New Sun."
*An investigation on the possible star system in "The Fifth Head of Cerberus."
*Two overviews of Wolfe's work, one focusing on his short stories, the other on his novels.
*A look at the Japanese translation of "The Book of the New Sun."

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"A Closer Look at the Brown Book"
"Gene Wolfe at the Lake of Birds"
"Posthistory 101"
"Naming the Star of 'The Fifth Head of Cerberus'"
"Lions and Tigers and Bears ... of the New Sun"
"Gene the Man and His Work"
"The Death of Catherine the Weal and Other Stories"
"Gene Wolfe's Novels and The Book of the Long Sun"
"Japanese Lexicon for the New Sun"
"What Gene Wolfe Expects"
Review of "Nightside the Long Sun"
Review of "In Green's Jungles"
Review of "Strange Travelers"
Review of "Shadows of the New Sun"

Genres: Nonfiction

157 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 23, 2016

Reviews

[Glen · Rating 3 out of 5]

I won this book in a goodreads drawing.

A series of essays about the fiction of Gene Wolfe. I've read similar books about other authors. This one seems a little more scholarly than most.

[Christopher McCaffery · Rating 2 out of 5]

some useful bits

[Rick · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some very interesting essays in this collection about the world of Gene Wolfe.