Gene Wolfe (1931–2019)
Autor(a) de Shadow & Claw: The First Half of The Book of the New Sun
About the Author
Gene Wolfe was born in New York City on May 7, 1931. He dropped out of Texas A&M University during his junior year and was drafted into the Army to fight in the Korean War. After the war, he received a degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Houston. He worked as an industrial mostrar mais engineer for Procter and Gamble, where he developed the machine that cooks the dough used to make Pringles potato chips. He was an editor of the trade journal Plant Engineering from 1972 to 1984 before retiring to become a full-time writer. He wrote more than 30 books during his lifetime including The Fifth Head of Cerberus, Peace, The Book of the New Sun, and The Land Across. He received the Campbell Memorial Award, the Edward E. Smith Memorial Award, the Locus Award four times, and the Nebula Award and the World Fantasy Award two times each. In 1996, he was given the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement. He was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2007 and was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2012. He died after a long battle with heart disease on April 14, 2019 at the age of 87. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras por Gene Wolfe
Empires of foliage and flower: A tale from the Book of the wonders of urth and sky (1987) 11 exemplares
A Cabin on the Coast 11 exemplares
The Boy Who Hooked the Sun [short fiction] 9 exemplares
The woman the unicorn loved [short story] 7 exemplares
The Detective of Dreams 7 exemplares
The Arimaspian Legacy 6 exemplares
The Cat 6 exemplares
The Horars Of War 5 exemplares
Sob in the Silence 5 exemplares
Lord of the Land [short fiction] 5 exemplares
The Map 5 exemplares
Game in the Pope's Head [short fiction] 5 exemplares
Procreation 5 exemplares
Straw [short story] 5 exemplares
Hunter Lake 5 exemplares
Pulp Cover 5 exemplares
Petting Zoo {short story} 5 exemplares
Bloodsport 5 exemplares
Castaway [short story] 4 exemplares
Graylord Man's Last Words 4 exemplares
A Wolfe Family Album 4 exemplares
The Marvelous Brass Chessplaying Automaton 4 exemplares
Has Anybody Seen Junie Moon? 4 exemplares
Viewpoint 4 exemplares
The Magic Animal 4 exemplares
The Little Stranger 4 exemplares
Queen 4 exemplares
The Nebraskan and the Nereid 4 exemplares
Silhouette 4 exemplares
The Lost Pilgrim 4 exemplares
In the House of Gingerbread 4 exemplares
Golden City Far 4 exemplares
Shields of Mars {short story} 4 exemplares
Mary Beatrice Smoot Friarly, SPV 3 exemplares
Copperhead 3 exemplares
Mute 3 exemplares
Of Soil & Climate {short story} 3 exemplares
From the Cradle {short story} 3 exemplares
In Glory Like Their Star {short story} 3 exemplares
The Legend of Xi Cygnus {short story} 3 exemplares
The Vampire Kiss [short story] [podcast] 3 exemplares
Donovan Sent Us 3 exemplares
The Headless Man 3 exemplares
Suzanne Delage 3 exemplares
Kevin Malone 3 exemplares
The Woman Who Loved The Centaur Pholus 3 exemplares
Green Glass 3 exemplares
Our Neighbour by David Copperfield 3 exemplares
The Other Dead Man 3 exemplares
Mathoms From The Time Closet 3 exemplares
To the Dark Tower Came {short story} 3 exemplares
At the Point of Capricorn 3 exemplares
Lukora 3 exemplares
The Sailor Who Sailed After the Sun {short story} 3 exemplares
The Dead Man 3 exemplares
Under Hill 3 exemplares
The Tree Is My Hat {short story} 3 exemplares
Rattler {short story} 3 exemplares
Talk of Mandrakes 3 exemplares
A Fish Story 3 exemplares
Bea and Her Bird Brother 3 exemplares
The Waif 2 exemplares
The Case Of The Vanishing Ghost 2 exemplares
King Rat 2 exemplares
Slaves of Silver {short story} 2 exemplares
The Dark of the June {short story} 2 exemplares
The Death of Hyle {short story} 2 exemplares
From the Notebook of Doctor Stein {short story} 2 exemplares
The Recording {short story} 2 exemplares
The Seraph from Its Sepulcher {short story} 2 exemplares
THE GUNNER'S MATE 2 exemplares
Try and Kill It {short story} 2 exemplares
Sonya, Crane Wessleman and Kittee 2 exemplares
Calamity Warps {short story} 2 exemplares
The Friendship Light {short story} 2 exemplares
Black Shoes {short story} 2 exemplares
Thag {short story} 2 exemplares
The Dog of the Drops {short story} 2 exemplares
Morning-Glory {short story} 2 exemplares
The Walking Sticks {short story} 2 exemplares
The Fat Magician {short story} 2 exemplares
The Rubber Bend {short story} 2 exemplares
Love, Among the Corridors {short story} 2 exemplares
Sweet Forest Maid {short story} 2 exemplares
My Book {short story} 2 exemplares
The Last Thrilling Wonder Story {short story} 2 exemplares
The Most Beautiful Woman On The World 2 exemplares
Robot's Story 2 exemplares
Loco Parentis 2 exemplares
GENE WOLFE'S ORBITAL THOUGHTS 2 exemplares
Slow Children at Play {short story} 2 exemplares
A Criminal Proceeding {short story} 2 exemplares
Build-a-Bear 2 exemplares
The Old Woman In the Young Woman 2 exemplares
The Night Chough 2 exemplares
When I Was Ming the Merciless {short story} 2 exemplares
The Peace Spy {short story} 2 exemplares
Peritonitis 2 exemplares
The God and His Man {short story} 2 exemplares
House of Ancestors {short story} 2 exemplares
Autograph, (S.F. Writer), S. 8x10 Photo 1 exemplar
House Fires 1 exemplar
Choice of the Black Goddess {short story} 1 exemplar
The Sea of Memory {short story} 1 exemplar
Frostfree {short story} 1 exemplar
Date Due {short story} 1 exemplar
In the Old Hotel {short story} 1 exemplar
At the Volcano's Lip {short story} 1 exemplar
In the Mountains {short story} 1 exemplar
A Cidadela do Autarca Livro 1 1 exemplar
A Sombra do Torturador Livro 1 1 exemplar
A Espada do Lictor Livro 1 1 exemplar
From Knight 1 exemplar
Śmierć doktora wyspy 1 exemplar
A Espada do Lictor 1 exemplar
The Book of the New Sun Volume I: The Shadow of the Torturer. Volume II: The Claw of the Conciliator (1981) 1 exemplar
Death of the Island Doctor {short story} 1 exemplar
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Unrequited Love 1 exemplar
Bifrost n° 111 1 exemplar
On the Train {short story} 1 exemplar
Constipating Science Fiction 1 exemplar
Last Day {short story} 1 exemplar
Procreation I Creation 1 exemplar
John K. Price 1 exemplar
Walt Disney's Lady 1 exemplar
Easter Sunday 1 exemplar
The Hour Of The Sheep 1 exemplar
Josh 1 exemplar
Why I Was Hanged 1 exemplar
Innocent 1 exemplar
Procreation II Re-creation 1 exemplar
Procreation III The Sister's Account 1 exemplar
Remembrance To Come 1 exemplar
How I Got Three Zip Codes 1 exemplar
The Card 1 exemplar
The Monday Man {short story} 1 exemplar
Houston, 1943 {short story} 1 exemplar
Civis Laputus Sum {short story} 1 exemplar
Parkroads -- A Review {short story} 1 exemplar
Checking Out {short story} 1 exemplar
A Solar Labyrinth {short story} 1 exemplar
Redbeard {short story} 1 exemplar
Cherry Jubilee {short story} 1 exemplar
In Looking-Glass Castle {short story} 1 exemplar
Alphabet {short story} 1 exemplar
The Flag {short story} 1 exemplar
The Packerhaus Method {short story} 1 exemplar
Wolfer {short story} 1 exemplar
Westwind {short story} 1 exemplar
Continuing Westward {short story} 1 exemplar
Sightings at Twin Mounds {short story} 1 exemplar
Beech Hill {short story} 1 exemplar
The Green Rabbit from S'Rian {short story} 1 exemplar
Pocketsful of Diamonds {short story} 1 exemplar
A Traveler in Desert Lands {short story} 1 exemplar
The Wrapper {short story} 1 exemplar
The Eleventh City {short story} 1 exemplar
Gene" 1 exemplar
Associated Works
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection (2006) — Contribuidor — 525 exemplares
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection (1997) — Contribuidor — 413 exemplares
The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction (2005) — Contribuidor — 359 exemplares
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Thirteenth Annual Collection (2000) — Contribuidor — 332 exemplares
The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction, 1960-1990 (1993) — Contribuidor — 310 exemplares
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection (2002) — Contribuidor — 266 exemplares
The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy (2004) — Contribuidor — 265 exemplares
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now (2009) — Contribuidor — 261 exemplares
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2007: 20th Annual Collection (2007) — Contribuidor — 211 exemplares
Ghosts by Gaslight: Stories of Steampunk and Supernatural Suspense (2011) — Contribuidor — 200 exemplares
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Four: Nebula Winners 1970-1974 (1986) — Contribuidor — 121 exemplares
The Best From Fantasy and Science Fiction: The Fiftieth Anniversary Anthology (1999) — Contribuidor — 116 exemplares
Gateways: A Feast of Great New Science Fiction Honoring Grand Master Frederik Pohl (2010) — Contribuidor — 91 exemplares
Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year Eighth Annual Collection (1979) — Contribuidor — 62 exemplares
Nebula Awards 24: SFWA's Choices for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 1988 (1988) — Contribuidor — 57 exemplares
Take My Advice: Letters to the Next Generation from People Who Know a Thing or Two (2002) — Contribuidor — 45 exemplares
Light Years and Dark: Science Fiction and Fantasy of and for Our Time (1984) — Contribuidor — 36 exemplares
The Wizard Knight Companion: A Lexicon for Gene Wolfe's The Knight and The Wizard (2009) — Prefácio, algumas edições — 30 exemplares
The Ides of Tomorrow: Original Science Fiction Tales of Horror (1976) — Contribuidor — 28 exemplares
A Cross of Centuries: Twenty-five Imaginative Tales About the Christ (2007) — Contribuidor — 28 exemplares
Nebula Awards 20: SFWA's Choices for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 1984 (1985) — Contribuidor — 27 exemplares
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: A 45th Anniversary Anthology (1994) — Contribuidor — 18 exemplares
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October/November 1996, Vol. 91, No. 4 & 5 (1996) — Contribuidor — 18 exemplares
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. XCI, No. 3 (May 1973) (1973) — Contribuidor — 18 exemplares
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction April 2007, Vol. 112, No. 4 (2007) — Contribuidor — 15 exemplares
Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 20, No. 10 & 11 [October/November 1996] (1996) — Contribuidor — 15 exemplares
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1981, Vol. 61, No. 4 (1981) — Contribuidor — 15 exemplares
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction June 1985, Vol. 68, No. 6 (1985) — Contribuidor — 14 exemplares
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 9, No. 12 [December 1985] (1905) — Contribuidor — 13 exemplares
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October/November 2004, Vol. 107, Nos. 4 & 5 (2004) — Autor — 13 exemplares
Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year Tenth Annual Collection (1981) — Contribuidor — 12 exemplares
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 4, No. 2 [February 1980] (1980) — Autor — 12 exemplares
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 13, No. 12 [December 1989] (1989) — Autor — 11 exemplares
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 6, No. 6 [June 1982] (1982) — Contribuidor — 11 exemplares
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction June 1983, Vol. 64, No. 6 (1983) — Contribuidor — 10 exemplares
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction April 1983, Vol. 64, No. 4 (1983) — Contribuidor — 10 exemplares
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1989, Vol. 77, No. 4 (1989) — Autor — 10 exemplares
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 5, No. 6 [June 1981] (1981) — Contribuidor — 9 exemplares
Worlds of If Science Fiction 153, March/April 1971 (Vol. 20, No. 10) (1971) — Contribuidor — 9 exemplares
The Profession of Science Fiction: SF Writers on Their Craft and Ideas (Insights) (1992) — Contribuidor — 6 exemplares
The far side of time, thirteen original stories;: A science fiction anthology (1974) — Contribuidor — 6 exemplares
Best of the Rest 4 — Contribuidor — 6 exemplares
Worlds near and far: Nine stories of science fiction and fantasy (1974) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
Nuove avventure nell'ignoto — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Wolfe, Gene Rodman
- Data de nascimento
- 1931-05-07
- Data de falecimento
- 2019-04-14
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- New York, New York, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Peoria, Illinois, USA
- Causa da morte
- cardiovascular disease
- Locais de residência
- Barrington, Illinois, USA
- Educação
- Texas A&M University
University of Houston - Ocupações
- mechanical engineer
editor
novelist
short-story writer - Organizações
- Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
Catholic Church
Plant Engineering, Editor
Proctor & Gamble, Engineer - Prémios e menções honrosas
- World Fantasy Award (Lifetime Achievement, 1996)
SF Hall Of Fame (2007)
Edward E. Smith Memorial Award (1989)
SFWA Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award (2012)
Chicago Literary Hall of Fame Fuller Award (2012)
SFWA Grand Master (2013)
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- Fought in Korean War. Formerly an industrial engineer, he was on the design team that developed the manufacturing process for the Pringle potato chip - his responsibility was the machine that cooks them. Also editor of the engineering trade journal Plant Engineering.
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Gene Wolfe - The Book of The New Sun em Folio Society Devotees (Setembro 2022)
Gene Wolfe - 1931-2019 em Science Fiction Fans (Abril 2019)
Looking for Centipede Press Shadow of the Torturer em Fine Press Forum (Dezembro 2018)
The plan of Pas em Science Fiction Fans (Maio 2014)
The Shadow of the Torturer em The Weird Tradition (Dezembro 2012)
The Book of the New Sun - Final Thoughts em Group Reads - Sci-Fi (Outubro 2008)
The Book of the New Sun Vol 4- The Citadel of the Autarch em Group Reads - Sci-Fi (Outubro 2008)
The Book of the New Sun Vol 3 - The Sword of the Lictor em Group Reads - Sci-Fi (Setembro 2008)
The Book of the New Sun Vol 2 - The Claw of the Conciliator em Group Reads - Sci-Fi (Setembro 2008)
The Book of the New Sun Vol 1 - The Shadow of the Torturer em Group Reads - Sci-Fi (Setembro 2008)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 307
- Also by
- 306
- Membros
- 38,010
- Popularidade
- #475
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Críticas
- 712
- ISBN
- 489
- Línguas
- 17
- Marcado como favorito
- 248