Michael Andre-Driussi, author of “Lexicon Urthus“ and all around Gene Wolfe expert has recently published a new lexicon that acts as a companion for Gene Wolfe’s books “The Knight” and “The Wizard”. Available for purchase on Amazon.com, “The Wizard Knight Companion: A Lexicon for Gene Wolfe’s The Knight and The Wizard” is certainly a must for anyone interested in diving deeper into The Wizard Knight story.
Found this new Wolfe fan blog on the Urth.net lists. It’s called Silk For Calde and is maintained by a gentleman named Zachary from Victoria, Australia. Be sure to check it out and bookmark it.
Amazon.com has Gene Wolfe’s next title, The Sorcerer’s House, listed for pre-order. The release date appears to be March 16th 2010. Hopefully we’ll see a cover soon.
Thanks to Paul for noticing and blogging this forum thread. Looks like the Avenger class in the 4th edition of Dungeons & Dragons was inspired by the main character Severian from the Book of the New Sun.
Mike Mearls writes:
Avenger: Ripping aside the ethereal nature of Wolf's Book of the New Sun and treating it as a comic book of sorts, Severian the torturer was a major influence on this class's initial feel and direction. Obviously its divine roots steered in a different direction, but I can easily see playing an avenger based on fantasy's most famous torturer.
Rendering of Severian’s Mask By Alexander Preuss
Published May 12, 2009 Uncategorized Leave a CommentAlexander Preuss used Z-Brush and Photoshop to create a nice concept piece of digital art depicting Severian’s Mask. 
Gene 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!
