![]() Much of that work is difficult to classify. What people don’t often say is that Gene Wolfe is a Chicago writer, a brilliant literary stylist whose work bridges his contemporaries, the New Wave speculative writers and postmodern magic realists.Īlthough he didn’t begin to publish stories until he was 34 years old and his first novel when he was 39, Gene Wolfe published more than 30 novels and more than 200 short stories before dying at the age of 87 on April 14, 2019. Gene’s stories are full of puzzles, allusions, and archaic diction.Gene Wolfe’s narrators are sometimes unreliable and challenge the reader. ![]() A Gene Wolfe story can’t just be read once, because the experience improves with each reread.Gene is one of the greatest science fiction writers of all time.When people who love literature talk about Gene Wolfe, five declarations almost always follow: ![]() Subjects are not good or bad, the writing makes them so. A great writer is not merely great himself he makes his readers great. And that a bad book can be written on any subject, too. One of these is that a good book can be written on any subject. ![]() Some simple truths are almost always rejected, anathema to the modern mind. Great writing is writing that can be reread with increased pleasure and clearer understanding. The title story is "The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories." The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories (1980) This is a partial list of works by Wolfe, focusing on those which won awards. ![]()
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