# Gene Wolfe Next SFWA Grand Master *The Urth list — 4 messages, 4 voices, 13 Dec 2012* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Fred Kiesche *13 Dec 2012, 15:27* 2012 Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master is...GENE WOLFE! http://www.sfwa.org/2012/12/2012-damon-knight-memorial-grand-master-awarded-to-gene-wolfe/ ``` F.P. Kiesche III "Ah Mr. Gibbon, another damned, fat, square book. Always, scribble, scribble, scribble, eh?" (The Duke of Gloucester, on being presented with Volume 2 of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.) Blogging at The Lensman's Children ( http://theeternalgoldenbraid.blogspot.com/). ``` --- ### Dan'l Danehy-Oakes *13 Dec 2012, 16:43 · in reply to Fred Kiesche* Some interesting comments here: http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/12/13/gene-wolfe-chosen-as-sfwa-grand-master/ > On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 7:27 AM, Fred Kiesche wrote: > 2012 Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master is...GENE WOLFE! > > > http://www.sfwa.org/2012/12/2012-damon-knight-memorial-grand-master-awarded-to-gene-wolfe/ > > -- > F.P. Kiesche III "Ah Mr. Gibbon, another damned, fat, square book. > Always, scribble, scribble, scribble, eh?" (The Duke of Gloucester, on > being presented with Volume 2 of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.) > Blogging at The Lensman's Children ( > http://theeternalgoldenbraid.blogspot.com/). > > > > _______________________________________________ --- ### Darth Ed *13 Dec 2012, 17:57 · in reply to Fred Kiesche* > On Dec 13, 2012, at 10:27 AM, Fred Kiesche wrote: > 2012 Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master is...GENE WOLFE! Long overdue and much deserved! Congratulations to Mr. Wolfe. Sincerely, Ed ``` http://www.wolfewiki.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Profiles.DarthEd ``` --- ### Gerry Quinn *13 Dec 2012, 19:22 · in reply to Dan'l Danehy-Oakes* From: Dan'l Danehy-Oakes > Some interesting comments here: > http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/12/13/gene-wolfe-chosen-as-sfwa-grand-master/ I was amazed by how many commenting SF fans hadn't read him! - Gerry Quinn ---