Gene Wolfe (1931–2019)
Autor de Shadow & Claw: The First Half of The Book of the New Sun
Sobre El Autor
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 más 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
Créditos de la imagen: Cory Doctorow (2005 Nebula Awards), cropped
Series
Obras de Gene Wolfe
A Cabin on the Coast 12 copias
The Detective of Dreams 7 copias
The Map 6 copias
The Arimaspian Legacy 6 copias
The Cat 6 copias
Procreation 5 copias
Sob in the Silence 5 copias
Straw [short story] 5 copias
Bloodsport 5 copias
Petting Zoo {short story} 5 copias
The Horars Of War 5 copias
Hunter Lake 5 copias
Pulp Cover 5 copias
Lord of the Land [short fiction] 5 copias
Castaway [short story] 4 copias
Shields of Mars {short story} 4 copias
The Magic Animal 4 copias
The Nebraskan and the Nereid 4 copias
Queen 4 copias
The Lost Pilgrim 4 copias
Graylord Man's Last Words 4 copias
Has Anybody Seen Junie Moon? 4 copias
In the House of Gingerbread 4 copias
Viewpoint 4 copias
The Little Stranger 4 copias
Silhouette 4 copias
Golden City Far 4 copias
At the Point of Capricorn 3 copias
The Dead Man 3 copias
The Other Dead Man 3 copias
Copperhead 3 copias
Of Soil & Climate {short story} 3 copias
From the Cradle {short story} 3 copias
A Fish Story 3 copias
Under Hill 3 copias
Bea and Her Bird Brother 3 copias
Rattler {short story} 3 copias
Suzanne Delage 3 copias
Lukora 3 copias
Mathoms From The Time Closet 3 copias
The Tree Is My Hat {short story} 3 copias
To the Dark Tower Came {short story} 3 copias
Green Glass 3 copias
Kevin Malone 3 copias
Mary Beatrice Smoot Friarly, SPV 3 copias
The Headless Man 3 copias
Talk of Mandrakes 3 copias
Donovan Sent Us 3 copias
Mute 3 copias
Our Neighbour by David Copperfield 3 copias
THE GUNNER'S MATE 2 copias
The Old Woman In the Young Woman 2 copias
The Waif 2 copias
Build-a-Bear 2 copias
The Rubber Bend {short story} 2 copias
The Recording {short story} 2 copias
Calamity Warps {short story} 2 copias
The Fat Magician {short story} 2 copias
Try and Kill It {short story} 2 copias
Black Shoes {short story} 2 copias
The Friendship Light {short story} 2 copias
The Night Chough 2 copias
King Rat 2 copias
Sonya, Crane Wessleman and Kittee 2 copias
The Dog of the Drops {short story} 2 copias
The God and His Man {short story} 2 copias
Slaves of Silver {short story} 2 copias
Robot's Story 2 copias
The Peace Spy {short story} 2 copias
Slow Children at Play {short story} 2 copias
A Criminal Proceeding {short story} 2 copias
Morning-Glory {short story} 2 copias
The Case Of The Vanishing Ghost 2 copias
Loco Parentis 2 copias
Sweet Forest Maid {short story} 2 copias
My Book {short story} 2 copias
Thag {short story} 2 copias
The Death of Hyle {short story} 2 copias
The Walking Sticks {short story} 2 copias
The Dark of the June {short story} 2 copias
Peritonitis 2 copias
House of Ancestors {short story} 2 copias
The Devil in a Forests 1 copia
A Espada do Lictor Livro 1 1 copia
A Sombra do Torturador Livro 1 1 copia
Śmierć doktora wyspy 1 copia
House Fires 1 copia
How I Got Three Zip Codes 1 copia
The Sea of Memory {short story} 1 copia
Frostfree {short story} 1 copia
A Cidadela do Autarca Livro 1 1 copia
Castle View 1 copia
A Espada do Lictor 1 copia
Pandora Holly Hollander 1 copia
From Knight 1 copia
Procreation I Creation 1 copia
Procreation II Re-creation 1 copia
(all) 1 copia
Soldiers of the Mist 1 copia
Remembrance To Come 1 copia
Bifrost n° 111 1 copia
The Book of the New Sun Volume I: The Shadow of the Torturer. Volume II: The Claw of the Conciliator (1981) 1 copia
Date Due {short story} 1 copia
A Solar Labyrinth {short story} 1 copia
In the Old Hotel {short story} 1 copia
John K. Price 1 copia
Houston, 1943 {short story} 1 copia
The Monday Man {short story} 1 copia
The Hour Of The Sheep 1 copia
Unrequited Love 1 copia
The Card 1 copia
Easter Sunday 1 copia
Constipating Science Fiction 1 copia
Walt Disney's Lady 1 copia
The Eleventh City {short story} 1 copia
Josh 1 copia
Why I Was Hanged 1 copia
Innocent 1 copia
Wolfer {short story} 1 copia
The Wrapper {short story} 1 copia
In the Mountains {short story} 1 copia
On the Train {short story} 1 copia
Last Day {short story} 1 copia
Civis Laputus Sum {short story} 1 copia
Checking Out {short story} 1 copia
Redbeard {short story} 1 copia
Cherry Jubilee {short story} 1 copia
Alphabet {short story} 1 copia
The Flag {short story} 1 copia
Westwind {short story} 1 copia
Beech Hill {short story} 1 copia
Gene" 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction (2005) — Contribuidor — 367 copias
The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction, 1960-1990 (1993) — Contribuidor — 315 copias
The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy (2004) — Contribuidor — 270 copias
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now (2009) — Contribuidor — 266 copias
Ghosts by Gaslight: Stories of Steampunk and Supernatural Suspense (2011) — Contribuidor — 207 copias
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Four: Nebula Winners 1970-1974 (1986) — Contribuidor — 124 copias
The Best From Fantasy and Science Fiction: The Fiftieth Anniversary Anthology (1999) — Contribuidor — 118 copias
Gateways: A Feast of Great New Science Fiction Honoring Grand Master Frederik Pohl (2010) — Contribuidor — 95 copias
Nebula Awards 24: SFWA's Choices for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 1988 (1988) — Contribuidor — 58 copias
Take My Advice: Letters to the Next Generation from People Who Know a Thing or Two (2002) — Contribuidor — 45 copias
Light Years and Dark: Science Fiction and Fantasy of and for Our Time (1984) — Contribuidor — 36 copias
The Wizard Knight Companion: A Lexicon for Gene Wolfe's The Knight and The Wizard (2009) — Prólogo, algunas ediciones — 30 copias
Nebula Awards 20: SFWA's Choices for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 1984 (1985) — Contribuidor — 28 copias
A Cross of Centuries: Twenty-five Imaginative Tales About the Christ (2007) — Contribuidor — 28 copias
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: A 45th Anniversary Anthology (1994) — Contribuidor — 18 copias
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October/November 1996, Vol. 91, No. 4 & 5 (1996) — Contribuidor — 18 copias
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1981, Vol. 61, No. 4 (1981) — Contribuidor — 16 copias
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction April 2007, Vol. 112, No. 4 (2007) — Contribuidor — 15 copias
Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 20, No. 10 & 11 [October/November 1996] (1996) — Contribuidor — 14 copias
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction June 1985, Vol. 68, No. 6 (1985) — Contribuidor — 14 copias
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 9, No. 12 [December 1985] (1905) — Contribuidor — 13 copias
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October/November 2004, Vol. 107, Nos. 4 & 5 (2004) — Autor — 13 copias
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 6, No. 6 [June 1982] (1982) — Contribuidor — 11 copias
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction April 1983, Vol. 64, No. 4 (1983) — Contribuidor — 11 copias
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction June 1983, Vol. 64, No. 6 (1983) — Contribuidor — 10 copias
Worlds of If Science Fiction 153, March/April 1971 (Vol. 20, No. 10) (1971) — Contribuidor — 9 copias
Best of the Rest 4 — Contribuidor — 6 copias
The far side of time, thirteen original stories;: A science fiction anthology (1974) — Contribuidor — 6 copias
The Profession of Science Fiction: SF Writers on Their Craft and Ideas (Insights) (1992) — Contribuidor — 6 copias
Nuove avventure nell'ignoto — Contribuidor — 2 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Wolfe, Gene Rodman
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1931-05-07
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2019-04-14
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- New York, New York, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Peoria, Illinois, USA
- Causa de fallecimiento
- cardiovascular disease
- Lugares de residencia
- Barrington, Illinois, USA
- Educación
- Texas A&M University
University of Houston - Ocupaciones
- mechanical engineer
editor
novelist
short-story writer
soldier - Organizaciones
- Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
Catholic Church
Plant Engineering, Editor
Proctor & Gamble, Engineer - Premios y honores
- 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) - Biografía breve
- 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.
Miembros
Debates
Gene Wolfe - The Book of The New Sun en Folio Society Devotees (septiembre 2022)
Gene Wolfe - 1931-2019 en Science Fiction Fans (abril 2019)
Looking for Centipede Press Shadow of the Torturer en Fine Press Forum (diciembre 2018)
The plan of Pas en Science Fiction Fans (mayo 2014)
The Shadow of the Torturer en The Weird Tradition (diciembre 2012)
The Book of the New Sun - Final Thoughts en Group Reads - Sci-Fi (octubre 2008)
The Book of the New Sun Vol 4- The Citadel of the Autarch en Group Reads - Sci-Fi (octubre 2008)
The Book of the New Sun Vol 3 - The Sword of the Lictor en Group Reads - Sci-Fi (septiembre 2008)
The Book of the New Sun Vol 2 - The Claw of the Conciliator en Group Reads - Sci-Fi (septiembre 2008)
The Book of the New Sun Vol 1 - The Shadow of the Torturer en Group Reads - Sci-Fi (septiembre 2008)
Reseñas
Listas
Greatest Books (1)
um actually (1)
Nebula Award (1)
Best Dystopias (1)
Read These Too (1)
Premios
También Puede Gustarte
Autores relacionados
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 312
- También por
- 306
- Miembros
- 38,868
- Popularidad
- #462
- Valoración
- 3.9
- Reseñas
- 729
- ISBNs
- 490
- Idiomas
- 17
- Favorito
- 247