It’s Raining Gene Wolfe Review Copies!

Any year is a good year to read Gene Wolfe, but it seems that right now we’re in a Gene Wolfe Year, or even a Gene Wolfe Sesquiennial, which started with his induction into the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame and continued with him being named Nebula Grandmaster.

Then Michael Andre-Driussi (the author of Lexicon Urthus and other useful Wolfe critical works) published this:

And sent me a review copy, which I hope to get to shortly. I also have copies of Gate of Horn, Book of Silk for sale through Lame Excuse Books; just drop me a line if you want one.

And this just arrived in the mail:

That’s Shadows of the New Sun: Stories in Honor of Gene Wolfe, edited by Bill Fawcett and J.E. Mooney, which is due out in August. Complete contents here.

We’ll see if I can’t review both of those here in the coming months.

Ironically, I’m actually reading another Wolfe-related book with the same title right now: Peter Wright’s Shadows of the New Sun: Wolfe on Writing/Writers on Wolfe, which includes the interview I did with him for Nova Express. When I had lunch with him at the Chicago Worldcon, Gene said even he didn’t have a copy of the Wright book.

Hopefully Gene will be able to come to the San Antonio Worldcon. He said he was going to try to make it.

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3 Responses to “It’s Raining Gene Wolfe Review Copies!”

  1. Sensawunda says:
    February 8, 2013 at 2:24 PM

    I’ve never been more jealous of any human being than I am of you at this moment. We are now mortal enemies.

  2. Lawrence Person says:
    February 8, 2013 at 6:30 PM

    Well, if you’re going to hate me for my Gene Wolfe books, I guess I should roll out the entire arsenal…

  3. Felicibusbrevis says:
    February 22, 2013 at 9:09 AM

    Excellent! Can’t wait for your review of the tribute. I enjoyed the Wright book of essays and find it far more compelling than his scholarly but very thesis based “Attending Daedalus”. Let us know which stories riff on which works of Gene! David Drake’s entry is inspired by Straw, and I am sure Jack Dann’s, Nancy Kress’,and Haldeman’s are playing with the death-island-doctor archipelago stories, and that Gaiman’s is playing with a solar labyrinth, Aramini’s with the Latro series, and Dietz’ dealing with the cliffhanger at the end of Shadow of the Torturer. I am very curious to see what the others have done with it and can’t wait to see a copy!

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