Gene Wolfe, Author Tor Books $25.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-312-87314-1
Few of the mysteries presented in the first two volumes of the Book of the Short Sun trilogy (On Blue's Waters; In Green's Jungles) are actually explained in this latest novel by one of SF's acknowledged masters, but Wolfe continues to provide...
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Gene Wolfe. Tor, $25.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7653-8114-9
Ern A. Smithe lives “on a Level Three shelf in the Spice Grove Public Library,” from which—as a “reclone” of the novelist whose name he bears—he may be borrowed at any time. Heiress Colette Coldbrook checks him out to help solve the mystery of her...
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Gene Wolfe. Tor, $25.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7653-3595-1
An expedition to write a travel guide lands an American in a nightmare of mystery, espionage, and the supernatural. Grafton, arrested on arrival in an unnamed Eastern European country, is assigned to the custody of a private family. This leads to...
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Gene Wolfe, Author Tor Books $23.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-85585-7
The long sun, which stretches from one end of the Whorl to the other, shows signs of instability. The gods of Mainframe, once dependable, now appear to be in conflict with each other. Mysterious fliers haunt the skies, social unrest is on the rise...
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Gene Wolfe, Author Tor Books $22.95 (381p) ISBN 978-0-312-85583-3
If ever an SF writer's work justified semiotic analysis, it is Wolfe's incredibly detailed narratives, interwoven with frequent temporal backtracking that requires meticulous attention. This third volume of a projected four in the Long Sun series (af
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Gene Wolfe, Author Tor Books $22.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-85494-2
Wolfe continues the saga begun in Nightside the Long Sun with this curious mix of science and medieval culture in which gods possess people and robotic police patrol mysterious underground passageways. Patera Silk, a young cleric, attempts to ransom
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Gene Wolfe, Author Orb Books $13.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-89032-2
An early fantasy novel from Wolfe, about a young man's troubled hero worship of a medieval highwayman, returns to print after an absence of nearly 20 years. (Mar.)
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Gene Wolfe, Author Tor Books $21.95 (333p) ISBN 978-0-312-85207-8
Wolfe's first novel since Pandora by Holly Hollander (1990) is a vivid and compelling evocation of life inside an interstellar spacecraft so huge that a whole world of cities and wildernesses exists within it, and so old that its origins and purpose
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Gene Wolfe, Author Tor Books $21.95 (331p) ISBN 978-0-312-85208-5
Warning in his introduction that this anthology contains ``some of my most obscure work,'' Wolfe ( Castleview ) goes on to briefly describe the background of the 34 ``storeys,'' which include some intriguing ideas. Unfortunately, the ideas are...
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Gene Wolfe, Author Tor Books $17.95 (198p) ISBN 978-0-312-85010-4
Barton is a wealthy Chicago suburb where, for many, boredom is staved off chiefly via an active social life that culminates yearly with the town fair. This year young Holly Hollander's mother is chairwoman, and for the raffle she has found a sealed...
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Gene Wolfe, Author Tor Books $19.95 (506p) ISBN 978-0-312-93154-4
Wolfe, whose tetralogy The Book of the New Sun was the most acclaimed science fiction series of the 1980s, offers his second collection, a hefty volume of over 30 stories in a variety of genres--SF, fantasy, horror, mainstream. Many of them are...
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Gene Wolfe, Author Tor Books $15.95 (335p) ISBN 978-0-312-93734-8
The premise of Wolfe's tantalizing last novel, Free Live Free, is reworked in his new fantasy, the first volume in a new series. Each features a motley group that forms around one person whose occult talents allow them all to pursue the supernatural.
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Gene Wolfe, Author Tor Books $17.95 (354p) ISBN 978-0-312-93185-8
Wolfe's forgetful protagonist Latro continues the odyssey through classical Greece begun in Soldier of the Mist . Serving in King Xerxes's army during the Persian attempt to conquer Greece, in the fifth century B.C., Latro received an injury that...
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Gene Wolfe, Author Tor Books $16.95 (403p) ISBN 978-0-312-93248-0
Wolfe established himself as one of the new masters of SF in 1972 with his Fifth Head of Cerberus; he has since received high acclaim for his four-volume Book of the New Sun series. This new novel is a disconcerting departure that resembles the work
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Gene Wolfe, Author . Tor $25.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0989-1
Nebula and World Fantasy awards–winner Wolfe's new novel—the first half of a massive epic—is a reminder that no one gets called a great writer without being first of all a great storyteller. This wonderful story is narrated...
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Gene Wolfe, Author Tor Books $25.95 (383p) ISBN 978-0-312-87227-4
Not for the faint of heart or weak of stomach, this collection of Wolfe's stories published in the 1990s contains death by overdose, suicide, Armageddon, cruelty to animals, abuse of children, children willing to falsely accuse fathers of sexual...
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Gene Wolfe, Author Tor Books $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-86614-3
Launching a three-book series, Wolfe's latest takes place several decades after the close of his acclaimed four-volume the Book of the Long Sun. There, it was revealed that the great artifact called the Whorl, unbeknownst to its millions of...
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Gene Wolfe, Author Tor Books $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-87315-8
In 1980, Wolfe published The Shadow of the Torturer, the first volume in his now classic Book of the New Sun, which was eventually followed by his much-praised Book of the Long Sun sequence. Whereas the former series was set on the decadent planet...
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Gene Wolfe, Author Tor Books $22.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-312-85209-2
The acclaimed author's latest effort combines the complete texts of two of his previous books--a story collection, Gene Wolfe's Book of Days (1981), and a volume of essays, The Castle of the Otter (1982), both out of print. In addition, there is a...
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Gene Wolfe, Author Orb Books $19.99 (640p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0294-6
In his foreword to Latro in the Mist, which pairs Gene Wolfe's acclaimed historical fantasies Soldier of the Mist (1986) and Soldier of Arete (1989), Wolfe reveals that the two novels are in fact his translations of the diary writings of Latro, a
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Gene Wolfe, Author Orb Books $16.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-312-89033-9
Wolfe's novel about a bitter old man whose highly imaginative memoirs go beyond the real world and into another dimension is available for the first time in over a decade. (July)
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Gene Wolfe, Author Tor $24.99 (302p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2458-0
World Fantasy Award–winning novelist Wolfe (An Evil Guest
) spins a complex, spellbinding web of otherworldly sorcery and hauntings. When scholar and ex-con Baxter Dunn arrives in the Midwest town of Medicine Man, he learns that a mysterious...
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Gene Wolfe, Author . Tor $29.95 (478p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2135-0
In these 31 self-selected stories, Wolfe (An Evil Guest
) mixes pulp adventure, ghost stories and noir with self-reference, meta-fiction, unreliable narrators and puns. His protagonists faces threats both modern (political correctness in “Petti
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Gene Wolfe, Author . Tor $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2133-6
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Near the conclusion of An Evil Guest
, a character of no particular importance to the plot rather nicely sums up something central to understanding the story and the world in which it is set: “T
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Gene Wolfe, Author . Tor $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1878-7
Fantasist extraordinaire Wolfe (The Wizard
) dabbles in time travel paradoxes for this charming tale of a monastic novice in postcommunist Cuba. As the years pass, Christopher, the son of an American crime lord, gradually loses touch with his family
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Gene Wolfe, Author . Tor $24.95 (319p) ISBN 978-0-765-31664-6
Latro, the amnesiac visionary hero of Soldier of the Mist
and Soldier of Arete
, reaches the Egypt known to Herodotus in Wolfe's splendid historical fantasy. Wounded in battle, Latro has only one day's worth of memory and must write down...
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Gene Wolfe, Author . Tor $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1202-0
Unlike his previous all-fantasy short fiction collection Innocents
Aboard
(2004),Wolfe's seventh volume of stellar short stories, written mostly between 2000 and 2005, ranges from haunting horror and biting near-contemporary social commentary...
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Gene Wolfe, Author . Tor $25.95 (480p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1201-3
The teenage boy who wandered into another set of realities in Wolfe's The Knight
has attained his ambition of knighthood. Now, as Sir Able of the High Heart, he returns in this sequel riding a steed that's not a horse, wielding his magic...
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Gene Wolfe, Author . Tor $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0790-3
Veteran Wolfe (The Knight
) doesn't just write stories. He tells wondrously imaginative tales that weave reality with dream and fit so comfortably, or with intentional discomfort, within the psyche that they surely must have dwelt there all...
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Edited by Greg Ketter. Prime (www.prime-books.com), $15.95 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-60701-358-7
Ketter’s collection of fantasy stories celebrating bookstores, first published in 2002, begins with an introduction by Neil Gaiman and contains 15 original stories plus Harlan Ellison’s “The Cheese Stands Alone.” The stories aren’t spectacular, but...
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Gene Wolfe. Tor, $25.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-250-24236-5
With this wily, witty work, SFWA Grand Master Wolfe (1931–2019) takes readers on a final trip to the far future world of 2015’s A Borrowed Man, in which clones of long-dead writers can be borrowed from the library. Ern A. Smithe, a library clone of...
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Gene Wolfe. Subterranean, $50 (400p) ISBN 978-1-64524-120-1
Those familiar with SFWA Grand Master Wolfe (1931–2019) only from his science-fantasy novels will be pleasantly surprised by this collection of 28 convention-subverting horror shorts. These twisty tales often end somewhere very different from where...
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