"With the publication of his tetralogy The Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe has entered the ranks of the major contemporary writers of science fiction," Pamela Sargent asserted in Twentieth-Century Sci...
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Gene Rodman Wolfe was born in Brooklyn, the son of Roy Emerson and Mary Olivia Ayres Wolfe. Most of his growing up, however, took place in Houston, and his roots are in the South, especially North Car...
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Critical Essay by Joanna Russ
Operation Ares by Gene Wolfe … is going to do the author's reputation a disservice someday. I know what Mr. Wolfe can do when he sets his mind to it; Ares ...
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Critical Essay by Bob Collins
In The Citadel of the Autarch, Wolfe's hero indeed comes to the end of his narrative, though neither his life or career…. Severian, as Autarch, sees himsel...
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Critical Essay by Algis Budrys
[Gene Wolfe's The Devil in a Forest] may or may not be a fantasy; there is a passing reference to something that may have been a supernatural incident in objecti...
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Critical Essay by Joanna Russ
