Latest:
- Gene Wolfe and The Pocket Book of Science-FictionWolfe said that Wollheim’s 1943 anthology was his gateway to discovering the science fiction pulps. Here, Michael Andre-Driussi explores one of Wolfe’s earliest influences.
- Micro-Wolfenomics: Joan Gordon reviews ‘Gene Wolfe’s First Four Novels: A Chapter Guide’ by Michael Andre-DriussiThere are two kinds of Wolfeian criticism: macro and micro. Michael Andre-Driussi offers the micro, noting all the small details, word meanings and origins, specific allusions, patterns and inconsistencies in plot, time-lines, and so on, things very useful to us broad-stroke people.
- A Curiously Conflicted Book: Craig Brewer reviews ‘Interlibrary Loan’This final work is not simply a coda to Wolfe’s career but an integral part of its working out of some of his most central concerns.
- A Weird Mystery: James Wynn considers Gene Wolfe’s ‘A Borrowed Man’As a detective novel, this is not a puzzle. It’s a finger-trap.
- Review: Gene Wolfe’s ‘Operation ARES’A review by Martin Crookall of Gene Wolfe’s problematic and rarely discussed first novel.
- Standing on the Shoulders of Giants – A Review of Michael Andre-Driussi’s ‘The Book of the New Sun: A Chapter Guide’“While Andre-Driussi acknowledges the complexity and allusiveness of Wolfe’s work, his writing has always seemed to me the most objectively grounded and easiest to digest … of all the writers and analysts currently exploring Wolfe’s work.
Here my pen shall halt, reader, though I do not. I have carried you from gate to gate – from the locked and fog-shrouded gate of the necropolis of Nessus to that cloud-racked gate we call the sky, the gate that shall lead me, as I hope, beyond the nearer stars.
Gene Wolfe, The Citadel of the Autarch (1982)
My pen halts, though I do not. Reader, you will walk no more with me. It is time we both take up our lives.