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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.
 

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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Gene Wolfe recommends
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Space Vulture (2007)
John J Myers and Gary K Wolf
"Read it and have a thrilling adventure..."
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Trash Sex Magic (2004)
Jennifer Stevenson
"I'd scarcely begun when I fell under the author's spell."
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Illumination (2001)
(Eiden Myr, book 1)
Terry McGarry
"Recommended without reservation to those who take their magic, and their relationships-seriously."

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Books containing stories by Gene Wolfe
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Sense of Wonder (2023)
A Century of Science Fiction
edited by
Leigh Ronald Grossman

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Awards
1970 Nebula Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : The Island of Doctor Death [short story]
1972 Nebula Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Against the Lafayette Escadrille
1972 Nebula Award for Best Novella (nominee) : The Fifth Head of Cerberus [short story]
1973 Hugo Award for Best Novella (nominee) : The Fifth Head of Cerberus [short story]
1973 Nebula Award for Best Novella : The Death of Doctor Island
1973 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
1976 Nebula Award for Best Novella (nominee) : The Eyeflash Miracles
1978 Nebula Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Seven American Nights
1979 Hugo Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Seven American Nights
1980 Nebula Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : The War Beneath the Tree
1981 John W Campbell Memorial Award for Best Novel (nominee) : The Shadow of the Torturer
1981 Nebula Award for Best Novel : The Claw of the Conciliator
1982 Hugo Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : The Woman the Unicorn Loved
1982 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Best Book (nominee) : The Claw of the Conciliator
1983 Nebula Award for Best Novel (nominee) : The Citadel of the Autarch
1984 John W Campbell Memorial Award for Best Novel : The Citadel of the Autarch
1984 Nebula Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : A Cabin on the Coast
1986 Nebula Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Free Live Free
1987 Nebula Award for Best Novel (nominee) : The Soldier of the Mist
1987 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (nominee) : The Soldier of the Mist
1988 Hugo Award for Best Novel (nominee) : The Urth of the New Sun
1988 Nebula Award for Best Novel (nominee) : The Urth of the New Sun
1988 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : In the House of Gingerbread
1989 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection : Storeys from the Old Hotel
1990 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (nominee) : The Soldier of Arete
1993 Nebula Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Nightside the Long Sun
1995 Nebula Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Calde of the Long Sun
1996 World Fantasy Award - Lifetime Achievement
1997 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Best Book (nominee) : Nightside the Long Sun
1998 Hugo Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : No Planets Strike
2004 Nebula Award for Best Novel (nominee) : The Knight
2005 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (nominee) : The Knight
2006 British Fantasy Society Award for Best Novel (nominee) : The Wizard Knight
2006 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Best Book (nominee) : The Wizard Knight
2007 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel : Soldier of Sidon
2009 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Best Book (nominee) : An Evil Guest
2012 John W Campbell Memorial Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Home Fires
2014 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (nominee) : The Land Across
2016 Prometheus Award for Best Book (nominee) : A Borrowed Man


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