Bücher von Gene Wolfe

Auf den Zwillingsplaneten Sainte Croix und Sainte Anne haben britische Siedler die ehemals französische Kolonie erobert. Doch was ist mit den Ureinwohnern geschehen, die hier einst lebten? Einige von ihnen scheinen sich ins unerforschte Hinterland zurückgezogen zu haben. Wolfe verknüpft auf brillante Weise drei Handlungsfäden miteinander: Der Sohn eines Wissenschaftlers - und Bordellbesitzers - kommt dem bizarren Geheimnis seiner Herkunft auf die Spur; ein junger Aborigine begibt sich auf eine mystische Traumreise und muss im Kampf gegen seinen verlorenen Bruder seine Identität finden; ein Anthropologe berichtet in nur bruchstückhaft überlieferten Erinnerungen von seiner Begegnung mit den Ureinwohnern - aber ist er wirklich, wer er zu sein vorgibt? Die Einstiegsdroge in das Werk eines Autors, der in der ganzen englischsprachigen Literatur nicht seinesgleichen hat.

Gene Wolfe may be the single best writer in fantasy and SF of his generation. From The Book of the Long Sun to The Book of the New Sun series, to his impressive short fiction oeuvre. Innocents Aboard gathers fantasy and horror stories from the last decade that have never before been in a Wolfe collection. Highlights from the twenty-two stories include "The Tree is my Hat," adventure and horror in the South Seas, "The Night Chough," a Long Sun story, "The Walking Sticks," a darkly humorous tale of a supernatural inheritance, and "Houston, 1943," lurid adventures in a dream that has no end. This is fantastic fiction at its best.

This title is a compilation of "Soldier of the Mist" and "Soldier of Arate", in which Latro, a Roman mercenary soldier, develops the ability to see and converse with all of the invisible gods, goddesses, ghosts, demons, and werewolves that inhabit the land, but forgets everything when he sleeps.

It starts with a confession from a priest. His past has reached further back than what many would consider possible. Before he was a priest, he was the pirate Captain Cristofo, and before he was a pirate, he was just Chris, a boy living in a monastery in Cuba the day after tomorrow.

A supernatural horror novel. Set a hundred years in the future, it is the story of an actress who becomes the lover of both a mysterious private detective and an even more mysterious and rich man, a man who has been to the human colony on an alien planet and learned strange things there. Her loyalties are divided - perhaps she loves them both.

Exodus from the Long Sun concludes Gene Wolfe's masterful sci-fi epic series, the Book of the Long SunIt is the far future, and the giant spaceship, The Whorl, has traveled for forgotten generations toward its destination. Lit inside by the artificial Long Sun, The Whorl is so huge that whole cities can be seen in the sky. And the gods of The Whorl have begun to intervene in human affairs. An entirely unexpected future awaits as Patera Silk and the other inhabitants are confronted with the world of an alien race. Wolfe's great work is complete, with the mysterious fullness of life itself.

Contains twenty-five stories, including "Viewpoint": takes on the unreality of so-called "reality" TV and imagines such a show done for real - with real guns; "Empires of Foliage and Flower"; and "Golden City Far": talks about dreams, high school and finding love.

Gene Wolfe one of the most acclaimed science fiction writers of the 1980's offers his second collection, a hefty volume of over 30 stories in a variety of genres. This is a must for all Gene Wolfe fans, and for anyone who loves a good tale beautifully told.

Hailed as "one of the literary giants of science fiction" by The Denver Post, Gene Wolfe is universally acknowledged as one of the most brilliant writers the field has ever produced. Winner of the World Fantasy Award for best fiction collection, Storeys from the Old Hotel contains thirty-one remarkable gems of Wolfe's short fiction from the past two decades, most unavailable in any other form.Storeys from the Old Hotel includes many of Gene Wolfe's most appealing and engaging works, from short-shorts that can be read in single setting to whimsical fantasy and even Sherlock Holmes pastiches. It is a literary feast for anyone interested in the best science fiction has to offer.

The Washington Post has called Gene Wolfe "the finest writer the science fiction world has yet produced." This volume, Castle of Days, joins together two of his rarest and most sought after works--Gene Wolfe's Book of Days and The Castle of the Otter--and add thirty-nine short essays collected here for the first time, to fashion a rich and engrossing architecture of wonder.

This is the first of three volumes that include "The Book of the Short Sun", which takes place in the years after Wolfe's "Book of the Long Sun." Horn, the narrator of the earlier work, now tells his story. He sets sail on a small boat on a quest across the planet Blue in search of the leader Silk.

This is the story of a man who falls in love with a goddess from an alternative universe. She flees him, but he pursues her through doorways - inter-dimensional gateways - to the other place, determined to sacrifice his life for her love.

A superb collection of science fiction and fantasy stories, The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories is a book that transcends all genre definitions. The stories within are mined with depth charges, explosions of meaning and illumination that will keep you thinking and feeling long after you have finished reading.

Gene Wolfe's collection "Strange Travellers" contains some award nominated stories, and some contraversial new stories.

Latro finds himself in Egypt, a land of singing girls, of spiteful and conniving deities. Without his memory, he is unsure of everything, except for his desire to be free of the curse that causes him to forget.

The sixty-fifty anniversary issue of Weird Tales showcases the work of Featured Author Gene Wolfe and Featured Artist George Barr (who contributed all the artwork). Also includes work by Ramsey Campbell, F. Paul Wilson, T.E.D. Klein, Tanith Lee, and many more.

In the 22nd century, our civilization has retained many familiar characteristics, but the population is smaller. Technology has made significant advances, and there are robots - and clones. One such is E.A. Smithe, a clone who lives on a third-tier shelf in a public library. His personality is an uploaded recording of a deceased mystery writer.

Grafton, an American writer of travel guides in need of a new location, chooses to travel to a small, obscure Eastern European country. The moment he crosses the border he is in trouble, much more than he could have imagined. His passport is taken by guards. Then he is detained for not having it.

In a contemporary town in the American Midwest where he has no connections, an educated man recently released from prison is staying in a motel. He writes letters to his brother and to others, including a friend still in jail. When he meets a real estate agent who tells him he is the heir to a huge old house, long empty, he moves in.