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Looking at the galleys of the soon-to-be released CONJUNCTIONS 39, I see that the excerpt from GW's forthcoming KNIGHT is much longer than the single chapter available online--six …
18 Oct 2002, 07:30
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From Gene: the provisional contents list for his sixth major collection, WRAITHS, WAIFS, AND WOLVES, likely to appear from Tor in Spring 2004. Emphasis is on fantasy and horror... …
25 Sep 2002, 14:31
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LOCUS for September reports that GW has sold and delivered a new, as-yet-untitled collection to Tor. Also in that LOCUS: a very amiable interview with Wolfe conducted by Neil Gaim…
05 Sep 2002, 11:59
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Considering when EXODUS FROM THE LONG SUN was being written (1994-5), Councillor Newt has a pretty obvious real-life referent: Newt Gingrich, elected Speaker of the US House of Rep…
01 Sep 2002, 08:41
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Anyone familiar with the works of the British SF writer and mainstream fantasist Christopher Priest may see parallels with Gene Wolfe (along with many differences, of course.) Ther…
16 Aug 2002, 08:07
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This Fall's print issue of CONJUNCTIONS (www.conjunctions.com), a special speculative fiction issue edited by Peter Straub, will include an advance excerpt from the upcoming first …
16 Aug 2002, 08:01
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Word filtering through is that KNIGHT, volume 1 of GW's THE WIZARD KNIGHT, will appear only in 2004. --Nick Gevers.…
02 Aug 2002, 14:50
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The latest on GW's forthcoming two-part novel, THE WIZARD KNIGHT, in his own words: "Yes, I've turned in KNIGHT [Volume One]. I don't have the contract yet, but David [Hartwell at…
21 Jul 2002, 16:40
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In his latest letter to me, GW indicates PANDORA BY HOLLY HOLLANDER was completed in July 1979. Confirms John Clute's supposition. --Nick Gevers.…
21 May 2002, 04:03
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GW's latest story, "Mute", is in the 2002 World Horror Convention Program Book; a very impressive 5,000-word ghost story, the tale of two orphaned children, probably themselves dea…
18 May 2002, 07:39
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Just a few words about Jeff VanderMeer's extraordinary book CITY OF SAINTS & MADMEN, now available in hardcover (Prime Books). The hardcover, a major expansion of last year's trade…
11 May 2002, 05:09
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GW has an original story in the Program Book for last month's World Horror Convention. This is his description: --Nick Gevers.…
10 May 2002, 03:24
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GW reports the ms of volume one of THE WIZARD KNIGHT is now likely to go to David Hartwell in early July. Meanwhile: I have to agree that "Under Hill" is pretty minor--agreeable, …
09 May 2002, 03:57
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GW's new story, "Under Hill", a sort of mediaeval romance by the look of things, is now online on THE INFINITE MATRIX (www.infinitematrix.net). Hurrah! --Nick Gevers.…
07 May 2002, 04:18
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As Jack Vance is and was a major unfluence on GW, the idea in 5HC of prehistoric human migrations from Earth to other worlds may have been picked up, in part, from certain Vance no…
28 Apr 2002, 04:42
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Nigel Price: Thanks for your kind remarks about my article. In response to your points: 1) When I referred to Wolfe as a maze builder, yes, I certainly had “A Solar Labyrinth” (on…
18 Apr 2002, 08:25
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Thanks to Marc, Dan'l, and Rostrum for their responses to my article. GW himself likes it (but then he would) and Rosemary Wolfe apparently plans to distribute copies of it at the …
11 Apr 2002, 04:41
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Apologies--it appears the URL I gave for my Washington Post article on Wolfe is defective. All the Sunday articles on SF, including ine, can be found here: http://www.washingtonpo…
08 Apr 2002, 03:09
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My short introduction to Wolfe's Suns metaseries (the Briah Cycle, I call it), aimed at general readers but with some analytical content, appears in today's WASHINGTON POST BOOK WO…
07 Apr 2002, 08:04
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I read GW's new short story, "Shields of Mars" (in the June 2002 MARS PROBES anthology from DAW) last night. A straight Hard SF tale about engineers tending a nuclear reactor on Ma…
03 Apr 2002, 08:51
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Just to repeat an earlier recommendation, which I can now doubly back up: John C. Wright's THE GOLDEN AGE: A ROMANCE OF THE FAR FUTURE, just out from Tor, is a dazzling masterpiece…
03 Apr 2002, 08:47
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Word from Gene on when David Hartwell will likely have seen the ms. of KNIGHT and responded to it: "My guess is that I'll know David's reaction by the end of June. But that's just…
03 Apr 2002, 08:33
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I've now read Gene's latest book, co-authored with Neil Gaiman: A WALKING TOUR OF THE SHAMBLES. It's an illustrated chapbook, published soon by the small press American Fantasy. It…
29 Mar 2002, 17:31
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Just heard: Gene and Neil Gaiman have collaborated on a chapbook, A WALKING TOUR OF THE SHAMBLES, for issue at the World Horror Convention. GW's only collaborative work ever? Othe…
22 Mar 2002, 18:23
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Those looking out for books in the Vance/Wolfe vein should try John C. Wright's novel THE GOLDEN AGE, due out shortly from Tor. A close approach to the Urth novels and Vance's plan…
17 Mar 2002, 20:39
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My interview with GW is now up on SF SITE (www.sfsite.com) --Nick Gevers.…
17 Mar 2002, 06:56
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Various notes about GW short stories: I was asked for my comments on "The Waif"--well, this is what I said in the February LOCUS: "...Decidedly more weighty is “The Waif” by Gene…
23 Feb 2002, 09:46
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Yes, GW is now connected, and has e-mail. I may well have conducted the first e-mail interview with him--up on SF SITE next month. --Nick Gevers.…
21 Feb 2002, 19:47
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A note concerning the two Liverpool University Press Wolfe volumes, ATTENDING DAEDALUS by Peter Wright and SHADOWS OF THE NEW SUN by Wolfe himself: my contact at LUP says publicati…
07 Feb 2002, 07:09
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I'm interviewing Wolfe at the moment, and he--significantly or not--ducks my question about the identity of Urth-Lune/Blue-Green. One interesting tidbit: he says that when he was d…
09 Jan 2002, 08:38
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The latest Wolfe stories are the novella "Viewpoint" (in REDSHIFT, ed. Al Sarrantonio) and "The Waif", a short story in the January FSF. "Viewpoint" is an interestingly constructed…
15 Nov 2001, 09:49
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A new novella by Gene Wolfe, "Viewpoint", is included in REDSHIFT, a massive and very impressive-looking anthology edited by Al Sarrantonio and slated for November release by Roc B…
16 Oct 2001, 07:27
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Regarding availability of AEGYPT and LOVE & SLEEP: they are now on sale in e-book form, from ElectricStory.com. Not that that will cut much ice with most bibliophiles. --Nick Geve…
31 Aug 2001, 06:11
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I asked Pete Crowther if he could provide some information on Wolfe's recent story "The Walking Sticks", to be found in the (rather expensive) anthology TAPS AND SIGHS. His respons…
20 May 2001, 08:19
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Yes, I know at least one; but payment might be a problem... --Nick Gevers. --- Robert Borski <rborski at charter.net> wrote: > Hey, Nick, do you know any other on-line editors who…
27 Apr 2001, 07:09
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A few months ago, I urged Ellen Datlow to run a Gene Wolfe story on SCI FICTION, and lo--whether because of my suggestion or without reference to it--she has now done so. The story…
26 Apr 2001, 14:53
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A few months ago, I urged Ellen Datlow to run a Gene Wolfe story on SCI FICTION, and lo--whether because of my suggestion or without reference to it--she has now done so. The story…
26 Apr 2001, 14:53
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I think it's reasonable to assume that much of the danger the inhumi pose to the humans on Blue stems from the possibility that human aggressors will employ inhumi as infiltrators …
26 Apr 2001, 14:35
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William Ansley: I agree with a good deal of your logic below. I've been arguing the strongest possible case for the Secret as an offensive weapon, striving to explain why the Secre…
23 Apr 2001, 05:55
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Another note on the Secret: does any human other than Horn/Silk have the ability to travel astrally, surely a rare gift from the Neighbors? In other words, is there anyone else who…
22 Apr 2001, 07:42
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A further point about defeating the inhumi militarily: the one way to force fugitive guerilla-type fighters into a pitched battle is to attack a location they consider strategicall…
22 Apr 2001, 07:34
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One objection to my astral-travel-to-defeat-the-inhumi thesis stands out as strong: the point that Horn describes the Secret as something that can reduce the inhumi to mindless bea…
22 Apr 2001, 07:17
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Two points have arisen: 1) The esteemed Kevin Maroney points out that Krait imparted what he assumed to be the full Secret to Horn long before the first episodes of astral travel;…
21 Apr 2001, 08:03
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Patera Nutria: no, I don't think the inhumi are teleporting from Green to Blue and then back again. If that were the case, Blue would be infested with them to a far greater degree …
20 Apr 2001, 18:44
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Following recent discussions of the Secret of the Inhumi, including reactions to my own theorisings, I’d like to propose a new and more comprehensive hypothesis as to what the Secr…
20 Apr 2001, 10:50
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Thanks to everyone who responded to my utopian theorisings; I was testing the waters with some ideas for a paper on TBSS... One point: I think that GW intends us to understand tha…
13 Apr 2001, 07:46
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I see the practical problems in applying the Secret, believe me I do. I wonder whether GW isn't commenting ironically on the difficulty of applying Christ's message in the "real wo…
11 Apr 2001, 01:18
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Alga wrote: "Oh, honestly, what nonsense--this isn't the Torah! It's not my fault that Wolfe abandoned Mucor, murdered Jahlee, sent Nettle and Seawrack off on a Star Trek menage a…
11 Apr 2001, 01:08
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To what Alex says, I can only add: I'm not surprised Wolfe didn't like THE DISPOSSESSED. TBSS is all the more, then, his new improved version. And: Alex, you hit the nail on the …
11 Apr 2001, 00:49
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In response to the comments of Dan'l Blattid O'Roach below: Points well taken. I should add that if THE DISPOSSESSED has influenced TBSS, it may well have done so via its major ut…
09 Apr 2001, 22:03
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