“You have need of learning, children, in order that the whorl will someday have need of you.”
Volume 1, Ch. 2
Fiction, The Book of the Long Sun (1993–1996)
Gene Rodman Wolfe[1] [2][1] fue un escritor estadounidense de ciencia ficción y fantasía. Destacó por su profundidad y prosa, rica en alusiones así como también por la fuerte influencia de su fe católica, la que adoptó después de contraer matrimonio con una católica.[cita requerida] Fue un escritor de novelas y cuentos cortas prolífico, y ganó el Premio Nébula y el World Fantasy Award dos veces cada uno, el Campbell Memorial Award, y el Locus Award cuatro veces. Fue nominado para el Premio Hugo en varias ocasiones. En 1996 Wolfe fue galardonado con el premio "World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement". Wikipedia
“You have need of learning, children, in order that the whorl will someday have need of you.”
Volume 1, Ch. 2
Fiction, The Book of the Long Sun (1993–1996)
"In Glory like Their Star", The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October/November 2001, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Starwater Strains (2005)
Fiction
"Oh. Well, I'm through."
"Forlesen", Orbit 14 (1974), ed. Damon Knight, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Gene Wolfe's Book of Days (1981), Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Castle of Days (1992), Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, The Best of Gene Wolfe (2009)
Fiction
Volume 3, Ch. 10
Fiction, The Book of the Short Sun (1999–2001)
“One of the questions whose answers we seek is why we seek.”
Fiction, "The Fifth Head of Cerberus", Orbit 10 (1972)
Fuente: Fiction, The Book of the New Sun (1980–1983), The Urth of the New Sun (1987), Chapter 3, "The Cabin" (p. 20)
“The best way to be thought honest is to be honest.”
Volume 1, Ch. 12
Fiction, The Book of the Long Sun (1993–1996)
Endangered Species (1989), Introduction
Nonfiction
Fiction, "The Fifth Head of Cerberus", Orbit 10 (1972)
"Cavalry in the Age of the Autarch", in Castle of the Otter (1982), Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Castle of Days (1992)
Nonfiction
“There is more to be learned from any good teacher than the subject taught.”
Volume 2, Ch. 1
Fiction, The Book of the Long Sun (1993–1996)
Introduction for R. A. Lafferty, Episodes of the Argo (1990), Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Castle of Days (1992)
Nonfiction
Fuente: Fiction, The Book of the New Sun (1980–1983), The Urth of the New Sun (1987), Chapter 16, "The Epitome" (p. 114)
"From a house on the Borderland", Horrorstruck (1987), Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Castle of Days (1992)
Nonfiction
“When a tree is very old, yet still lives, sometimes the limbs are strangely twisted.”
"The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories" (1970), Orbit 7, ed. Damon Knight, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories (1980), Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, The Wolfe Archipelago (1983), Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, The Best of Gene Wolfe (2009)
Fiction
Guest of Honor speech at Aussiecon Two (August 1985), as published in Castle of Days (1992)
Nonfiction
"Our Neighbor by David Copperfield", Future Tense (1978), ed. Lee Harding, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Endangered Species (1989)
Fiction
"Words Weird and Wonderful", in Castle of the Otter (1982), Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Castle of Days (1992)
Nonfiction
"Kevin Malone", New Terrors (1980), ed. Ramsey Campbell, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Endangered Species (1989), Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, The Best of Gene Wolfe (2009)
Fiction
Volume 3, Ch. 4
Fiction, The Book of the Long Sun (1993–1996)
"The Death of Doctor Island", Universe 3 (1973), ed. Terry Carr, The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories (1980). Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, The Wolfe Archipelago (1983), Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, The Best of Gene Wolfe (2009)
Fiction
“Experience is a wonderful teacher, but one whose lessons come too late.”
Volume 2: In Green's Jungles (2000), Ch. 1
Fiction, The Book of the Short Sun (1999–2001)
“People who get eyeball arthritis see only what they're supposed to see, like that TV screen.”
"Hunter Lake", The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October/November 2003, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Starwater Strains (2005)
Fiction
The Best of Gene Wolfe (2009), afterword to "Petting Zoo", p. 432
Nonfiction
The Best of Gene Wolfe (2009), afterword to "The Boy Who Hooked the Sun", p. 381
Nonfiction
Volume 2, Ch. 2
Fiction, The Book of the Long Sun (1993–1996)
“He is not mad. He is only more clever than you. It is not the same.”
Volume 4, Ch. 10
Fiction, The Book of the Long Sun (1993–1996)
"From a Chain letter to George R. R. Martin and Greg Benford", 10 July 1982; as published in Castle of Days (1992)
Nonfiction
"Forlesen", Orbit 14 (1974), ed. Damon Knight, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Gene Wolfe's Book of Days (1981), Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Castle of Days (1992), Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, The Best of Gene Wolfe (2009)
Fiction