Gene Wolfe
Author
Series
Borrowed man volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Sequel to : A borrowed man.
"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 borrowed person, his personality an uploaded recording of a deceased mystery writer. Smithe is a piece of property, not a legal human. As such, Smithe can be loaned to other branches. Which he is. Along with two fellow reclones, a cookbook and romance writer,...
2) Home fires
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Gene Wolfe takes us to a future North America at once familiar and utterly strange. A young man and woman, Skip and Chelle, fall in love in college and marry, but she is enlisted in the military, there is a war on, and she must serve her tour of duty before they can settle down. But, the military is fighting a war with aliens in distant solar systems, and her months in the service will be years in relative time on Earth. Chelle returns to recuperate...
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Lovecraft mets Blade Runner. This is a stand-alone supernatural horror novel with a 30s noir atmosphere. Gene Wolfe can write in whatever genre he wants--and always with superb style and profound depth. Now following his World Fantasy Award winner, Soldier of Sidon, and his stunning Pirate Freedom, Wolfe turns to the tradition of H.P. Lovecraft and the weird science tale of supernatural horror.
Set a hundred years in the future, An Evil Guest is...
4) Castleview
Author
Series
Publisher
T. Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
1990
Language
English
Description
In the town of Castleview, Illinois, Tom Howard is murdered at the factory he manages-on the same day that Will E. Shields and his family, newly come to Castleview, arrive with a realtor in tow to see Howard's house. From an attic window, Shields glimpses the phantom castle that has given the town its name. They are discussing the house with Sally Howard when the police arrive bearing the dreadful news. Then, driving back to the motel, Shields nearly...
Author
Publisher
Tor Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Gene Wolfe may be the single best writer in fantasy and SF of his generation. From The Book of the Long Sun to The Book of the New Sun series, to his impressive short fiction oeuvre.
Innocents Aboard gathers fantasy and horror stories from the last decade that have never before been in a Wolfe collection. Highlights from the twenty-two stories include "The Tree is my Hat," adventure and horror in the South Seas, "The Night Chough," a Long Sun story,...
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
As a young parish priest, Father Christopher has heard many confessions, but his own tale is more astounding than any revelation he has ever encountered in the confessional ... for Chris was once a pirate captain, hundreds of years before his birth.
Fresh from the monastery, the former novice finds himself inexplicably transported back to the Golden Age of Piracy, where an unexpected new life awaits him. At first, he resists joining the notorious...
Author
Publisher
ORB
Pub. Date
2001, ©1988
Language
English
Description
"There Are Doors is the story of a man who falls in love with a goddess from an alternate universe. She flees him, but he pursues her through doorways--interdimensional gateways--to the other place, determined to sacrifice his life, if necessary, for her love. For in her world, to be her mate ... is to die."--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c1987
Language
English
Description
The long awaited audiobook sequel to Gene Wolfe's four-volume classic, The Book of the New Sun. Listeners return to the world of Severian, now the Autarch of Urth, as he leaves the planet on one of the huge spaceships of the alien Hierodules to travel across time and space to face his greatest test, to become the legendary New Sun or die. The strange, rich, original spaceship scenes give way to travels in time, wherein Severian revisits times and...
10) On Blue's waters
Author
Series
Book of the short sun volume 1
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Author
Series
Wizard knight volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
16) The land across
Author
Publisher
Tor Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"An American writer of travel guides in need of a new location chooses to travel to a small and obscure Eastern European country. The moment Grafton crosses the border he is in trouble, much more than he could have imagined. His passport is taken by guards, and then he is detained for not having it. He is released into the custody of a family, but is again detained. It becomes evident that there are supernatural agencies at work, but they are not...
Author
Series
Book of the new Sun volume 2
Publisher
Timescape Books
Pub. Date
[1981]
Language
English
Description
Severian, a young torturer banished for the sin of mercy is now imbued with the powers of an ancient relic as he continues his mythic journey to the city of his exile in a world a million years in the future.