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I noticed there was a lack of a Gene Wolfe thread so I thought I might have a crack at it. Gene Wolfe is an American writer whose works have been highly reguarded and several times award winning. He mainly writes Science Fiction and Fantasy, but as Gene himself has said 'All novels are fantasies. Some are more honest about it.' I'm a huge fan of all of his work, but his most famous books would have to be the "Book of the New Sun" quadrilogy. The story follows a young "Torturer" with perfect memory as he journeys through "Urth", but like all things in a Gene Wolfe book, things are never so simple. Gene Wolfe's work is usually considered more complex than your average work of fiction. Gene's work rarely follows conventions, and he enjoys utilising archaic and obscure (but never invented) words in his work. He enjoys leaving clues and hints to things in his work preferring that people will re-read a book and find new things to delight them. I would say that "The Wizard Knight", "Pirate Freedom", "Latro in the Mist" and of course "The Book of the New Sun" are probably my favorites of his, but I highly enjoy and recommend all of his work (he's very prolific). Links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Wolfe Gene Wolfe by Neil Gaiman: quote:I was as impressed and delighted by the Book of the New Sun as I was intimidated by it. Wolfe's use of language, the grand sweep of his story, the way he used science fiction to illuminate ideas and people and to stretch my mind in ways it had never been stretched before, the way he played with memory and gave us a perfectly reliable unreliable narrator – all these things thrilled me. (Years later, Michael Dirda of the Washington Post would call it "The greatest fantasy novel written by an American," and he would be right.) http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/may/13/gene-wolfe-hero-neil-gaiman-sf New Release: Home Fires (January 2011) quote:Gene Wolfe takes us to a future North America at once familiar and utterly strange. A young man and woman, Skip and Chelle, fall in love in college and marry, but she is enlisted in the military, there is a war on, and she must serve her tour of duty before they can settle down. But the military is fighting a war with aliens in distant solar systems, and her months in the service will be years in relative time on Earth. Chelle returns to recuperate from severe injuries, after months of service, still a young woman but not necessarily the same person—while Skip is in his forties and a wealthy businessman, but eager for her return. http://www.amazon.com/Home-Fires-Gene-Wolfe/dp/0765328186/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1290402498&sr=1-1 Upcoming Book: The Land Across (TBA) quote:There’s a young man. His father is dead – or he believes his father is dead. He’s grown up all over the world, because his father was in the State Department. He has written a travel book about Austria. English is his cradle language, but he picked up others – some German, French, and Japanese – when he lived in those countries. http://www.blackgate.com/2010/11/23/and-it-goes-on-from-there-an-interview-with-gene-wolfe/
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New Gene Wolfe novel coming soon "The Land Across" available November 26, 2013. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0765335956/sfsi0c-20 Sounds interesting, I'm reminded of The City & The City by Melville in a tangential way.
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Nov 7, 2013 01:49
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I'm sure most of you know already but there is a new book out now, I haven't started it yet (the new mistborn book got in front) but looking forward to it. http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23848252-a-borrowed-man
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