Gene Wolfe (1931-2019) was the Nebula Award-winning author of The Book of the New Sun tetralogy in the Solar Cycle, as well as the World Fantasy Award winners The Shadow of the Torturer and Soldier of Sidon. He was also a prolific writer of distinguished short fiction, which has been collected in such award-winning volumes as Storeys from the Old Hotel and The Best of Gene Wolfe.
A recipient of the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, the
Edward E. Smith Memorial Award, and six Locus Awards, among many
other honors, Wolfe was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of
Fame in 2007, and named Grand Master by the Science Fiction and
Fantasy Writers of America in 2012.
"Consistently high ambition and achievement." --The New York Times "One of the major SF series of te decade...a bona fide masterpiece." --Publishers Weekly "Few writers dare to attempt a Great Work; Wolfe attempts it and succeeds." --The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
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