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Gene Wolfe (born May 7, 1931) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He is noted for his dense, allusive prose as well as the strong influence of his Catholic faith, to which he converted after marrying into the religion. He is a prolific short story writer and novelist and has won many science fiction and fantasy literary awards (below).
Wolfe is most famous for The Book of the New Sun (1980ff), the first part of his Solar Cycle. In 1998, Locus magazine ranked it third-best fantasy novel before 1990, based on a poll of subscribers that considered it and several other series as single entries.
Wolfe was born in New York. He had polio as a small child. While attending Texas A&M University, he published his first speculative fiction in The Commentator, a student literary journal. Wolfe dropped out during his junior year, and was drafted to fight in the Korean War. After returning to the United States he earned a degree from the University of Houston and became an industrial engineer. He edited the journal Plant Engineering for many years before retiring to write full-time, but his most famous professional engineering achievement is a contribution to the machine used to make Pringles potato chips. He now lives in Barrington, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, with his wife Rosemary.
Wolfe underwent double bypass surgery on April 24, 2010.
Wolfe's best-known and most highly regarded work is the multi-volume novel The Book of the New Sun. Set in a bleak, distant future influenced by Jack Vance's Dying Earth series, the story details the life of Severian, a journeyman torturer, exiled from his guild for showing compassion to one of the condemned. The novel is composed of the volumes The Shadow of the Torturer (1980), The Claw of the Conciliator (1981), winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel, The Sword of the Lictor (1982), and The Citadel of the Autarch (1983). A coda, The Urth of the New Sun (1987), wraps up some loose ends but is generally considered a separate work. Several Wolfe essays about the writing of The Book of the New Sun were published in The Castle of the Otter (1982); the title refers to a misprint of the fourth book's title in Locus magazine).
In the 1990s, Wolfe published two more works in the same universe as The Book of the New Sun. The first, The Book of the Long Sun, consists of the novels Nightside the Long Sun (1993), Lake of the Long Sun (1994), Caldé of the Long Sun (1994), and Exodus From the Long Sun (1996). These books follow the priest of a small parish as he becomes wrapped up in political intrigue and revolution in his city-state. Wolfe then wrote a sequel, The Book of the Short Sun, composed of On Blue's Waters (1999), In Green's Jungles (2000) and Return to the Whorl (2001), dealing with colonists who have arrived on the sister planets Blue and Green. The three Sun works (The Book of the New Sun, The Book of the Long Sun, and The Book of the Short Sun) are often referred to collectively as the "Solar Cycle."
Wolfe has also written many stand-alone books. His first novel, Operation Ares, was published by Berkley Books in 1970 and was unsuccessful. He subsequently wrote two novels held in particularly high esteem, Peace and The Fifth Head of Cerberus. The first is the seemingly-rambling narrative of Alden Dennis Weer, a man of many secrets who reviews his life under mysterious circumstances. The Fifth Head of Cerberus is either a collection of three novellas, or a novel in three parts, dealing with colonialism, memory, and the nature of personal identity. The first story, which gives the book its name, was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novella.
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https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/23069.Gene_Wolfe |
The Book of the New Sun series
Gene Wolfe - The Shadow Of The Torturer (read by Jonathan Davis)
Gene Wolfe - The Claw Of The Conciliator (read by Jonathan Davis)
Gene Wolfe - The Sword Of The Lictor (read by Jonathan Davis)
Gene Wolfe - The Citadel Of The Autarch (read by Jonathan Davis)
Gene Wolfe - The Urth Of The New Sun (read by Roy Avers)
The Book of the Long Sun series
Gene Wolfe - Nightside: The Long Sun (read by John Horton)
Gene Wolfe - Lake Of The Long Sun (read by John Horton)
Gene Wolfe - Calde Of The Long Sun (read by John Horton)
Gene Wolfe - Exodus From The Long Sun (read by John Horton)
The Book of the Short Sun series
Gene Wolfe - On Blue's Waters (read by John Horton)
Gene Wolfe - In Green's Jungles (read by John Horton)
The Wizard Knight series
Gene Wolfe - The Knight (read by Michael Scherer)
Gene Wolfe - The Wizard (read by Michael Scherer)
Other
Gene Wolfe - Shadows Of The New Sun: Stories In Honor Of Gene Wolfe (read by MacLeod Andrews and Amy McFadden)
Gene Wolfe - There Are Doors (read by Katrina Van Dyne)
Gene Wolfe - Strange Travelers (read by Gary Telles)
Gene Wolfe - Endangered Species (read by Gary Tipton)
Gene Wolfe - The Sorcerer's House (read by ???)
Gene Wolfe - The Land Across (read by Jeff Woodman)
Gene Wolfe - The Fifth Head Of Cerberus (read by Anthony Parker)
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The Book of the New Sun series
http://rapidgator.net/file/f3e3b5b4d50e44f1eae04e5f0f3ebc25/The_Shadow_Of_The_Torturer.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1e688297d0eea37db3d6d22615f0005a/The_Claw_Of_The_Conciliator.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/c49bad7203d1e3d129205e7ccfaa46de/The_Sword_Of_The_Lictor.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/4c184a609104c3a02e53c3bd9b95a2fa/The_Citadel_Of_The_Autarch.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/b8aa1da41d2c0875943bb781641a2755/The_Urth_Of_The_New_Sun.rar.html
The Book of the Long Sun series
http://rapidgator.net/file/dff5beac72edff1bb7cddd4b84ec99cc/Nightside_The_Long_Sun.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/6d3d9896be2d889b6305fbc64984364b/Lake_Of_The_Long_Sun.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1e9890dc2a2080ba45acd83b7f6ead60/Calde_Of_The_Long_Sun.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1886046ed7284f2a0016af22e47a88b6/Exodus_From_The_Long_Sun.rar.html
The Book of the Short Sun series
http://rapidgator.net/file/dc2036872963cb0b1a275c06b128bc82/On_Blues_Waters.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/03c9c7423a31734b3fef49a5587cb1b4/In_Greens_Jungles.rar.html
The Wizard Knight series
http://rapidgator.net/file/490b400676c5b87eed7c338d08a73ffe/The_Wizard.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/e1b17957f20117869061a13ced064cbe/The_Knight.rar.html
Other
http://rapidgator.net/file/f5bf9838df326d8089fd98b02d046018/Shadows_Of_The_New_Sun.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/581e655d3049a122f322625a4b1b1877/There_Are_Doors.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/65c54f6197bf313b1182e1526e4b898e/Strange_Travelers.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/cc679a19b027665f96e90024abea8657/Endangered_Species.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1a343491093a31e7611108e613827c28/The_Sorcerers_House.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/9ea55fc64da604f8f9cbe084e68aca2d/The_Land_Across.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/b6d94b8eae46b0a483185c3c3eb39a88/The_Fifth_Head_Of_Cerberus.rar.html |
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