Frases de Gene Wolfe
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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  

✵ 7. mayo 1931 – 14. abril 2019   •   Otros nombres جین وولف
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Gene Wolfe: Frases en inglés

“It doesn't move because he has fastened it in place until he finds out why it doesn't move.”

Fiction, "The Fifth Head of Cerberus", Orbit 10 (1972)

“Time passed, slipping through the waist of the universe's great hourglass like the eroded soil of this continent slipping down her rivers to the seas.”

Gene Wolfe libro The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories

"Seven American Nights", Orbit 20 (1978), ed. Damon Knight, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories (1980), Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, The Best of Gene Wolfe (2009)
Fiction

“The gods smile on us, my son, or so it is written. It's a wonder they don't laugh aloud.”

Volume 1, Ch. 2
Fiction, The Book of the Long Sun (1993–1996)

““I pledged myself to show you wonders.”
I drew her farther from the building. “I’m not ready to see wonders. Yours, or any other woman’s.””

Fuente: Fiction, The Book of the New Sun (1980–1983), The Urth of the New Sun (1987), Chapter 19, "Silence" (p. 132)

“The jokes of the gods are long in the telling.”

Volume 3, Ch. 1
Fiction, The Book of the Long Sun (1993–1996)

“An exaggerated and solemn respect always indicates a loss of faith.”

Gene Wolfe libro The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories

"Seven American Nights", Orbit 20 (1978), ed. Damon Knight, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories (1980), Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, The Best of Gene Wolfe (2009)
Fiction

“A hundred wise men have said in various ways that love transcends the power of death, and millions of fools have supposed that they meant nothing by it. At this late hour in my life I have learned what they meant. They meant that love transcends death. They are correct.”

"Bed and Breakfast", Dante's Disciples (1995), ed. Edward E. Kramer, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Strange Travelers (2000), Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, The Best of Gene Wolfe (2009)
Fiction

“Prince of parable, I desire to see those gardens of lasting delight which Allah—the Creator! the Ever Beneficent!—reserves for the faithful. How am I to do so if I tell lies?”

"By lying to Allah, I suppose."
"The Tale of the Rose and the Nightingale (and What Came of It)", Arabesques (1988), ed. Susan Schwartz. Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Endangered Species (1989)
Fiction

“I pledged myself to show you wonders.”

I drew her farther from the building. “I’m not ready to see wonders. Yours, or any other woman’s.”
Fuente: Fiction, The Book of the New Sun (1980–1983), The Urth of the New Sun (1987), Chapter 19, "Silence" (p. 132)

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