The Very Best of Gene Wolfe

PS Publishing has something special due out later this year for the serious Gene Wolfe collector.  A collection of thrity-two of Wolfe’s best short stories all in one volume entitled, “The Very Best of Gene Wolfe.” It includes a rare piece called, “Christmas Inn” and a forward by Kim Stanley Robinson.

A Kindle of Wolfe

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.

Ma.gnolia Group Lost

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

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.

A Year of the Solar Cycle

John Klima, Christopher Rowe, Mark Teppo and William Shunn have started the Gene Wolfe Book Club with the goal to read one book from Wolfe’s Solar Cycle a month and discuss them.  If you’ve been wanting to read or reread any of these books now might be a great time to join them in their New Year’s Resolution.

Nebula Award Wolfe Interview

Here is a new interview from December 30th of 2008 with Gene Wolfe  by David de Beer on Nebulaawards.com.  Good stuff.

Happy Holidays!

Have a wonderful holiday and a happy new year!

A Quiet Couple of Months

There hasn’t been a lot of news coming down the pipes lately.   However, the mailing list has been full of a lot of great conversations and if you haven’t subscribed to it yet then head on over to Urth.net and sign up.  Everyone does a great job of answering questions and keeping the conversation rolling.  If you like to dissect Wolfe’s books than it’s certainly worth signing up for.

On a side note, I’ve always wondered where this mysterious page on urth.org came from.

Review on Washingtonpost.com

The Washington Post did a small review on, “An Evil Guest.”  Not the longest review I’ve seen but Edward Champion reviews about five different books at once in a Science Fiction and Fantasy Roundup and gives us a small taste of them all.

Sci Fi Wire Interview & WindyCon

Great new interview with Wolfe on Sci Fi Wire about “An Evil Guest” and he happens to give away the names of his next two books towards the end.  Also, I hear he will be attending the 35th WindyCon on November 14-16th as well.