Posts belonging to Category 'Gene Wolfe'
July 14, 2010 | Posted by Mark
So now there’s a super duper Iain Banks iPhone App available, which other Science Fiction and Fantasy authors would merit there very own app? Well my top 5 would be: Dan Simmons His novels have such a rich background to them that I am sure there are plenty of background notes which could be digitised [...]
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July 23, 2009 | Posted by Mark
Sometimes when you come back to a book for a second time it’s not quite as good as you originally thought. Not in the case of Gene Wolfe’s The Book of the New Sun. For me the second time round has been a fantastic experience so far. I’m 115 pages into my reading of the [...]
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November 4, 2008 | Posted by Mark
The first chapter of Gene Wolfe’s new book An Evil Guest is available at the Macmillan Website. Right away we are introduced to what I assume will be the main character of the book, Gideon Chase: “They sat at ease in the Oval Office. Had the president looked at his guest, he would have seen a handsome, ageless [...]
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June 8, 2008 | Posted by Mark
I heard about this first about a year ago, it’s a great idea, an anthology of stories by top fantasy writers based on Jack Vance’s Dying Earth (an inspiration for Gene Wolfe’s Earth of the New Sun of course!). The book is edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, and there will be [...]
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June 2, 2008 | Posted by Mark
It was with interest that I read the review by Paul Raven of the 2007 Book of the New Sun edition, called Severian Of The Guild – essentially a repackaged version by Gollancz. Paul, despite acknowledging Wolfe’s genius, also describes the problems he has with the allegory and particularly the Christianity in the book. I, [...]
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