Posts Tagged ‘Shadows of the New Sun’

It’s Raining Gene Wolfe Review Copies!

Thursday, February 7th, 2013

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.