Alexander Preuss used Z-Brush and Photoshop to create a nice concept piece of digital art depicting Severian’s Mask. 
Rendering of Severian’s Mask By Alexander Preuss
Published May 12, 2009 Uncategorized Leave a CommentGene Wolfe’s “An Evil Guest” is a finalist for a 2009 Locus Award under the Fantasy Novel category. Each category contains five finalists and the winners will be announced on June 26-27 at the Science Fiction Awards Weekend in Seattle Washington.
The winners of the 2008 Nebula Awards were announced yesterday.
Best Novel: Powers by Ursula K. Le Guin
Best Novella: “The Spacetime Pool” by Catherine Asaro
Best Novelette: “Pride and Prometheus” by John Kessel
Best Short Story: “Trophy Wives” by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Script: WALL-E Screenplay by Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon, Original story by Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter
Andre Norton Award: How a Girl of Spirit Gambles All to Expand Her Vocabulary, Confront a Bouncing Boy Terror, and Try to Save Califa from a Shaky Doom (Despite Being Confined to Her Room) by Ysabeau S. Wilce
Solstice Award: Kate Wilhelm, A.J. Budrys and Martin H. Greenberg.
SFWA Service Award: Victoria Strauss
Bradbury Award: Joss Whedon
Grand Master Award: Harry Harrison
Author Emerita: M.J. Engh
Michael Andre-Driussi has published a new article on irosf.com in which he uses The Urth of the New Sun to shed some light on the many mysteries that shroud The Book of the New Sun. As with everything Michael writes it’s an enjoyable and enlightening read. Just reading it myself has me wanting to pick the Urth Cycle back up for another go.
John Clute On The Best of Gene Wolfe
Published April 6, 2009 news Leave a CommentTags: best of, gene wolfe, john clute, review
Fantastic article/review of, ‘The Best of Gene Wolfe” by John Clute.
We are left with the controlled explosions of the miracle decade, a period during which those of us who felt simultaneously invaded and translated by his work began gradually to learn how to begin to read the man.
A couple of new things to share today. First off is a Between the Cover Podcast interview with Gene Wolfe. The interview is done by John J. Miller and is, as almost every interview with Mr. Wolfe, an insightful one that glimpses into his life and personal interests.
The other item of interest is a new forum called “Useful Phrases” that is dedicated entirely to discussing Gene Wolfe’s work and life. It’s always great to see new additions to the Gene Wolfe online community. If you want to be involved simply go to the site, make a quick account and start posting.
Both of these sites have added to the new Hoof & Hide Delicious.com repository of links. Very soon I’ll have some new updates involving the resources page and upcoming Twitter updates!
Last week Amazon.com announced the newest version of their Kindle eBook reader. Being curious as to how many Gene Wolfe books were available for the Kindle I did a quick search and I have to say it was more than I expected (it was also exciting to see Michael Andre-Driussi’s 2nd Edition Lexicon Urthus available as well). Still, the entire selection of Gene Wolfe books available for the Kindle are all books that are still in print. My personal belief is that eBook Readers should be used as an inexpensive way to revive all of those out-of-print books that have become difficult to put one’s hands on. All that being said, I wanted to highlight a beautiful feature on the Amazon.com website that allows the viewer to request certain titles be made available for the Kindle. All you have to do is click on the I’d like to read this book on Kindle link located on the left side of the book page you’ve pulled up on Amazon.com and it will inform the book’s publisher you’d like to see this title available for the Kindle. I imagine if enough requests go through than more titles will be made available. Even though there are plenty of used printed copies of Wolfe’s work available in used bookstores across the globe it would still be nice to access to so many of his out-of-print titles in an easy to buy and download format that fits nicely on one easy to carry reader.
It appears that Ma.gnolia.com has crashed and lost all of it’s data leaving me with the task of rebuilding my repository of Gene Wolfe links on a different social bookmarking site. I apologize for the temporary feature loss and will keep you updated with my progress in restoring it. Until then, any Gene Wolfe links you would like to email me would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Wolfe a Must Read
Published January 30, 2009 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: book of the new sun, gene wolfe, guardian, novels
The Guardian made up a list of 1000 novels everyone must read. Gene Wolfe’s Book of the New Sun was, of course, in the Science Fiction and Fantasy section of the list.
