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Gene Wolfe
The first two volumes of Gene Wolfe’s magnificent, award-winning The Book of the New Sun.
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The concluding two volumes of Gene Wolfe’s magnificent, award-winning The Book of the New Sun.
The long-awaited conclusion to The Book of the Long Sun . Wolfe may already have established himself as the definitive voice in science fantasy. If he has not, Long Sun…
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Mesmerizing sci-fi from the author the Denver Post calls one of the literary giants of science fiction . The melancholy memoir of Alden Dennis Weer, an embittered old man living…
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An all new collection from an American literary icon.
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An all new collection from an American literary icon
The circus comes to town... and a man gets to go to the stars.
A young girl on a vacation at…
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The World Fantasy Award-winning volume, in its first paperback edition. This brilliant collection of 31 remarkable stories from the past two decades contains many of Wolfe’s most appealing and accessible…
Joan Gordon
An annotated bibliography and criticism of Gene Wolfe’s science fiction and non-fiction writing.
Gene Wolfe’s collection Strange Travellers contains some award nominated stories, and some contraversial new stories.
In a contemporary town in the American Midwest where he has no connections, an educated man recently released from prison is staying in a motel. He writes letters to his…
Grafton, an American writer of travel guides in need of a new location, chooses to travel to a small, obscure Eastern European country. The moment he crosses the border he…
Gene Wolfe one of the most acclaimed science fiction writers of the 1980’s offers his second collection, a hefty volume of over 30 stories in a variety of genres. This…
It starts with a confession from a priest. His past has reached further back than what many would consider possible. Before he was a priest, he was the pirate Captain…
This volume brings together two of Wolfe’s most sought-after books, long out of print–Gene Wolfe’s Book of Days and The Castle of the Otter–and adds to them 39 essays collected…
Latro finds himself in Egypt, a land of singing girls, of spiteful and conniving deities. Without his memory, he is unsure of everything, except for his desire to be free…
Now in a Tor Essentials edition, a universally acknowledged masterpiece of science fiction by one of the field's most brilliant writers. Tor Essentials presents new editions of science fiction and…
A new SF-noir, detective novel from the celebrated author of the Book of the New Sun series.
Interlibrary Loan is Gene Wolfe’s final work of fiction, a brilliant follow-up to A Borrowed Man.
A reprint of the now-scarce collection of Wolfe’s classic early short stories, this companion volume to Castle of Days presents some of the best American short stories of the decade…
This is the first of three volumes that include The Book of the Short Sun , which takes place in the years after Wolfe’s Book of the Long Sun. Horn…
In the sequel to On Blue’s Waters and In Green’s Jungles, Horn continues his epic quest in search of the heroic leader Patera Silk, but his odyssey has become undermined…
Hundreds of years in the future our civilization is shrunk down but we go on. There is advanced technology, there are robots.
And there are clones.
E. A. Smithe is…
A collection of twenty-two fantasy and horror stories written during the past ten years includes The Tree Is My Hat, The Night Chough, The Walking Sticks, and Houston, 1943. By…
A supernatural horror novel. Set a hundred years in the future, it is the story of an actress who becomes the lover of both a mysterious private detective and an…
This title is a compilation of Soldier of the Mist and Soldier of Arate , in which Latro, a Roman mercenary soldier, develops the ability to see and converse with…
The definitive collection of the best of Gene Wolfe’s short fiction: Wolfe is our Melville. -Ursula K. Le Guin
This is the story of a man who falls in love with a goddess from an alternative universe. She flees him, but he pursues her through doorways - inter-dimensional gateways…
The second volume of the science fiction trilogy The Book of the Short Sun . It is narrated by Horn, who has embarked on a quest away from his home…
Contains twenty-five stories, including Viewpoint : takes on the unreality of so-called reality TV and imagines such a show done for real - with real guns; Empires of Foliage and…
Essential reading for any fan of the four-volume Book of the New Sun . Severian, now the Autarch of Urth, leaves the planet on the huge spaceship of the Heirodules…
In the first two books of the series The Book of the Long Sun, young priest Patera Silk tries to satisfy the gods living within the Whorl, a starship world…
Tor Essentials presents new editions of science fiction and fantasy titles of proven merit and lasting value, each volume introduced by an appropriate literary figure.
Far from Earth, two sister…
An SF masterpiece.
Comprising The knight and The wizard –Cover.
This is an omnibus edition consisting of the novels: The Sword of the Lictor, copyright A1981 by Gene Wolfe; and The Citadel of the Autarch, copyright A1982 by Gene Wolfe.
A major work of twentieth-century American literature…Wolfe creates a truly alien social order that the reader comes to experience from within…once into it, there is no stopping. —The New York…
An all-new collection from an American literary icon The circus comes to town . . . and a man gets to go to the stars. A young girl on a…
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Harlan Ellison
A follow up to the original groundbreaking collection, Again, Dangerous Visions features forty-six short stories from giants of the science fiction genre.
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Michael Andre-Driussi
A collection of fourteen previously published articles, written by Michael Andre-Driussi, on the fiction of science fiction author Gene Wolfe.
Vera Nazarian
This debut collection of 19 stories is the distillation of myth and philosophy, and eroticism and ascetic purity.
In this debut collection from the critically acclaimed author of Dreams of the Compass Rose, 19 stories distill myth and philosophy, eroticism and ascetic purity from an ancient multi-ethnic well.
A chapter-by-chapter guide to Gene Wolfe’s The Book of the New Sun, its sequel The Urth of the New Sun, and four shorter works.
Robert Borski
Over the years sf and fantasy writer Gene Wolfe has proven himself to be adept at all lengths of fiction. Now in THE LONG AND THE SHORT OF IT, once…
