![]() Although he is primarily a novelist, Gene Wolfe has never abandoned the writing of shorter works and he has seen more than 210 of them published. His novels have won awards: the Nebula, World Fantasy Awards, Locus Awards, British awards, among others. His first novel was published in 1970, and since then he has written twenty-three more, some of them singletons, most of them set in one of several series ( The Book of the New Sun, The Book of the Long Sun, The Book of the Short Sun, The Wizard Knight, and the Soldier series). To put this into perspective, at that point he had three children (of an eventual four), with the eldest already in second grade. ![]() His first sale came eight years later, in 1965. ![]() Looking for a way to supplement his salary as an engineer at Procter & Gamble in Cincinnati, the twenty-six-year-old newlywed began writing stories in whatever free time he could find. Gene Wolfe came to writing after returning home from the Korean War (1954), completing his college education at the University of Houston, and getting married in 19561. Through a lot of hard work, it turns out. Who is this mild-mannered man named Gene Wolfe, and how has he won these accolades? Le Guin has called him "our Melville." Michael Swanwick has called him the greatest living writer in the English language. ![]() JOHN CLUTE has called him "quite possibly the most important" author in the contemporary sf field. ![]() Index of Title, Month and Page sorted by Author Fantasy and Science Fiction - Gene Wolfe Section ![]()
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