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Gene Wolfe


(Gene Rodman Wolfe)
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Gene Wolfe was the author of two dozen novels and hundreds of shorter stories. He was best known for the three multi-part series The Book of the New Sun, The Book of the Long Sun, and The Book of the Short Sun, as well as for the acclaimed duology, The Wizard Knight. Over his forty-year career, he won the Nebula Award, the John W. Campbell Award, the World Fantasy Award, the British Science Fiction Award, the Locus Reader’s Poll, the Rhysling (for poetry), and many others. In 1996, he was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the World Fantasy Convention, and in 2007 he was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame.
 

Awards: Nebula (2013), WFA (2010), Campbell (1984), BFA (1983)  see all

Genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction, Horror
 
Novels
   Operation Ares (1970)
   Peace (1975)
   The Devil in a Forest (1976)
   Free Live Free (1984)
   There Are Doors (1988)
   Castleview (1990)
   Pandora by Holly Hollander (1990)
   Pirate Freedom (2007)
   An Evil Guest (2008)
   The Sorcerer's House (2010)
   Home Fires (2011)
   The Land Across (2013)
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Collections
   The Fifth Head of Cerberus (1972)
   In the Wake of Man (1975) (with R A Lafferty and Walter Moudy)
   The Island of Doctor Death (1980)
   The Wolfe Archipelago (1983)
   Bibliomen (1984)
   Planet Engineering (1984)
   Gene Wolfe's Book of Days (1985)
   For Rosemary (poems) (1988)
   Storeys from the Old Hotel (1988)
   Endangered Species (1989)
   Castle of Days (1992)
   Young Wolfe (1992)
   Strange Travelers (2000)
   Innocents Aboard (2004)
   Starwater Strains (2005)
   The Very Best of Gene Wolfe (2009)
   The Best of Gene Wolfe (2009)
   The Wildside Book of Fantasy (2012) (with others)
   The Dead Man and Other Horror Stories (2023)
   The Wolfe At The Door (2023)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   Empires of Foliage and Flower (1987)
   Memorare (2008)
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Books containing stories by Gene Wolfe
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Speaking of the Fantastic V (2024)
(Speaking of the Fantastic, book 5)
edited by
Darrell Schweitzer
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Sense of Wonder (2023)
A Century of Science Fiction
edited by
Leigh Ronald Grossman

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Awards
2013 Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award
2010 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection : The Best of Gene Wolfe: A Definitive Retrospective of His Finest Short Fiction
2010 Locus Award for Best Collection : The Best of Gene Wolfe: A Definitive Retrospective of His Finest Short Fiction
2007 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel : Soldier of Sidon
2005 Locus Award for Best Novella : Golden City Far
1996 World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement
1989 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection : Storeys from the Old Hotel
1987 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel : Soldier of the Mist
1984 John W. Campbell Memorial Award : The Citadel of the Autarch
1983 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel : The Sword of the Lictor
1983 British Fantasy Award for Best Novel : The Sword of the Lictor
1982 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel : The Claw of the Conciliator
1981 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel : The Shadow of the Torturer
1981 Nebula Award for Best Novel : The Claw of the Conciliator
1981 BSFA Award for Best Novel : The Shadow of the Torturer
1974 Nebula Award for Best Novella : The Death of Doctor Island
1974 Locus Award for Best Novella : The Death of Doctor Island

Award nominations
2021 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Interlibrary Loan
2016 Prometheus Award (nominee) : A Borrowed Man
2016 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : A Borrowed Man
2014 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (nominee) : The Land Across
2012 John W. Campbell Memorial Award (nominee) : Home Fires
2011 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : The Sorcerer's House
2009 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature (nominee) : An Evil Guest
2009 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : An Evil Guest
2008 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (nominee) : Memorare
2008 Nebula Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Memorare
2008 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Memorare
2008 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : Pirate Freedom
2008 Hugo Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Memorare
2007 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : Soldier of Sidon
2006 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature (nominee) : The Wizard Knight
2006 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Starwater Strains
2006 British Fantasy Award for Best Novel (nominee) : The Wizard Knight
2005 World Fantasy Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Golden City Far
2005 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (nominee) : The Knight
2005 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (nominee) : The Lost Pilgrim
2005 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : The Wizard Knight
2005 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Innocents Aboard: New Fantasy Stories
2004 Nebula Award for Best Novel (nominee) : The Knight
2002 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Return to the Whorl
2002 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Viewpoint
2001 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : In Green's Jungles
2001 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Strange Travelers
2000 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : On Blue's Waters
1998 Hugo Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : No Planets Strike
1997 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature (nominee) : Nightside the Long Sun
1997 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Exodus from the Long Sun
1996 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : The Ziggurat
1995 Nebula Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Calde of the Long Sun
1995 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Calde of the Long Sun
1994 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Nightside the Long Sun
1993 Nebula Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Nightside the Long Sun
1991 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : Castleview
1990 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Soldier of Arete
1990 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : Soldier of Arete
1990 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Endangered Species
1989 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : There Are Doors
1988 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : In the House of Gingerbread
1988 Nebula Award for Best Novel (nominee) : The Urth of the New Sun
1988 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : The Urth of the New Sun
1988 Hugo Award for Best Novel (nominee) : The Urth of the New Sun
1987 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Soldier of the Mist
1987 Nebula Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Soldier of the Mist
1986 Nebula Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Free Live Free
1985 Nebula Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : A Cabin on the Coast
1985 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Free Live Free
1985 BSFA Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Free Live Free
1984 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : The Citadel of the Autarch
1983 Nebula Award for Best Novel (nominee) : The Citadel of the Autarch
1983 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : The Citadel of the Autarch
1983 BSFA Award for Best Novel (nominee) : The Citadel of the Autarch
1982 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award (nominee) : The Claw of the Conciliator
1982 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Gene Wolfe's Book of Days
1982 Hugo Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : The Woman the Unicorn Loved
1982 BSFA Award for Best Novel (nominee) : The Sword of the Lictor
1981 Nebula Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : The War Beneath the Tree
1981 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : The Shadow of the Torturer
1981 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : The Island of Doctor Death: And Other Stories
1981 John W. Campbell Memorial Award (nominee) : The Shadow of the Torturer
1979 Nebula Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Seven American Nights
1979 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Seven American Nights
1979 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : The Doctor of Death Island
1979 Hugo Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Seven American Nights
1977 Nebula Award for Best Novella (nominee) : The Eyeflash Miracles
1977 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : The Eyeflash Miracles
1976 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Silhouette
1974 Nebula Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : How I Lost the Second World War and Helped Turn Back the German Invasion
1974 Hugo Award for Best Novella (nominee) : The Death of Doctor Island
1973 Nebula Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Against the Lafayette Escadrille
1973 Nebula Award for Best Novella (nominee) : The Fifth Head of Cerberus [short story]
1973 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : The Fifth Head of Cerberus
1973 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : The Fifth Head of Cerberus
1973 Hugo Award for Best Novella (nominee) : The Fifth Head of Cerberus [short story]
1971 Nebula Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : The Island of Doctor Death [short story]


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"I'd scarcely begun when I fell under the author's spell."
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Illumination (2001)
(Eiden Myr, book 1)
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"Recommended without reservation to those who take their magic, and their relationships-seriously."

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