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Wolfe has been called "the Melville of science fiction", [3] [4] and was honored as a Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. [5] Wolfe is best known for his Book of the New Sun series (four volumes, 1980–1983), the first part of his "Solar Cycle". [1]
Apr 14, 2019 · Gene Wolfe was an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He was noted for his dense, allusive prose as well as the strong influence of his Catholic faith, to which he converted after marrying a Catholic. He was a prolific short story writer and a novelist, and has won many awards in the field.
Jan 27, 2023 · Gene Wolfe Was Sci-Fi's Most Enigmatic Writer. Fans have spent years trying to comprehend his books, and many still don't have answers. Photograph: Beth Gwinn/Getty Images. TK. The Geek's Guide...
Gene Wolfe has 511 books on Goodreads with 620303 ratings. Gene Wolfe’s most popular book is The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun, #1).
His life has many parallels to the life of Jesus, and Gene Wolfe, a Catholic, has explained that he deliberately mirrored Jesus in Severian. He compares Severian's profession as a torturer to Jesus's profession as a carpenter in The Castle of the Otter : [4]
Apr 25, 2019 · Gene Wolfe Turned Science Fiction Into High Art. He worked as an engineer developing the technology to make Pringles potato chips before embarking on a prolific writing career. Known as the...
May 1, 1980 · It is the tale of young Severian, an apprentice in the Guild of Torturers on the world called Urth, exiled for committing the ultimate sin of his profession - showing mercy toward his victim - and follows his subsequent journey out of his home city of Nessus.
Apr 19, 2019 · Gene Wolfe, a prolific science fiction and fantasy writer whose best works, full of inventive language, mysteries and subtly conveyed themes, are considered to be among the genre’s...
(1931-2019) US author, born in New York, raised in Texas, long resident in Illinois. He served in the Korean War; his experiences there, which haunted his depictions of War over the decades of his active career, are recorded in the correspondence with his mother between 1952 and 1954 assembled as Letters Home (coll 1991 ).
Gene Rodman Wolfe (May 7, 1931 – April 14, 2019) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He was noted for his dense, allusive prose as well as the strong influence of his Catholic faith.
