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Gene Wolfe indicates he's finishing the third draft of THE WIZARD, with a fourth to come. No clarity yet on what he'll write after that... --Nick Gevers…
10 Jan 2003, 09:10
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SPOILER SPACE Rich Horton re "Castaway": "Do you think the world was actually Earth? Or was the castaway remembering lost Earth somehow?" The world was Earth, I'm prett…
10 Jan 2003, 09:09
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SPOILER SPACE Rich Horton re "Castaway": "Do you think the world was actually Earth? Or was the castaway remembering lost Earth somehow?" The world was Earth, I'm prett…
10 Jan 2003, 09:09
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I've now read both of GW's newest stories, "The Dog of the Drops" (3SF, December 2002) and "Castaway" (Sci Fiction, February 2003). Both are good, if not his very best. "The Dog …
09 Jan 2003, 10:04
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On February 5, SCI FICTION (www.scifi.com/scifiction) will run a new Wolfe story, "Castaway"--2,000 words long. Just got the advance file... --Nick Gevers.…
09 Jan 2003, 07:31
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I've just received the second issue of the new UK magazine 3SF, and it contains a new Wolfe story, "The Dog of the Drops". It's short (under 1,000 words), and seems to be written m…
31 Dec 2002, 08:07
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Anthony Ferrara asked about WIZARD KNIGHT publication dates. Volume One, THE KNIGHT, will be out Sept 2003 from Tor in hardcover, Volume Two, THE WIZARD, most likely a year or so l…
31 Dec 2002, 07:50
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I don't know if anyone has remarked on this before, but Michael Curtiz's late-'30s crime thriller ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES, starring James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart, may very well …
22 Dec 2002, 07:29
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From Lawrence Person: the interview with GW he published in NOVA EXPRESS in 1998 is now online at http://www.io.com/~lawrence/V5N1.html --Nick Gevers.…
24 Nov 2002, 05:58
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GW has a new story in the limited edition anthology SHELF LIFE, edited by Greg Ketter and issued by Dreamhaven Books. Title: "From the Cradle". The book's theme is bookstores. --N…
17 Nov 2002, 12:09
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It appears that KNIGHT, Volume One of THE WIZARD KNIGHT, will appear from Tor in September 2003, earlier than previously intimated. --Nick Gevers.…
14 Nov 2002, 06:50
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From galleys, I've now read the first six chapters of KNIGHT, the full advance excerpt in CONJUNCTIONS 39 (the piece on the website is only Chapter One). It really is superb stuff-…
28 Oct 2002, 07:39
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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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I concede that listing 5HC as part of the Briah Cycle is an experimental proposition, but if it leads to a fuller understanding of Wolfe's baroque/SF oeuvre--and it should, for rea…
12 Apr 2002, 03:29
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Michael Straight: yes, the Urth/Lune pairing is less important than the other two, and I certainly don't believe they are the same worlds as Blue and Green--too much textual gerrym…
12 Apr 2002, 03:08
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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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Thanks to Andy Robertson and Robert Borski for that Mahes information--my understanding of the story is deepened... More forthcoming story info: "The Lost Pilgrim", mentioned in t…
24 Feb 2002, 06:58
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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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John: Briefly, SHADOWS OF THE NEW SUN is a new collection of Wolfe's essays, apparently edited by Peter Wright, and ATTENDING DAEDALUS is Wright's own critical study of Wolfe's wor…
07 Feb 2002, 09:59
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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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I mentioned "Pocketsful of Diamonds" onlist last year, very briefly. A good story--I tend to be guided in assessing these short Wolfe tales by the strength of their style; "The Wal…
18 Oct 2001, 05:03
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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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