Shadows of the New Sun

Peter Wright is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Film Studies at Edge Hill College in Lancashire, England. He is author of Attending Daedalus: Gene Wolfe, Artifice and the Reader (Liverpool University Press, 0853238286.

• Notes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I: The Trackless Meadows of Old Time1. Gene Wolfe: An InterviewMalcolm Edwards2. An Interview with Gene WolfeJoan Gordon3. An Interview with Gene WolfeMelissa Mia Hall4. Interview: Gene Wolfe – ‘The Legerdemain of the Wolfe’Robert Frazier5. Riding a Bicycle Backwards: An Interview with Gene WolfeColin Greenland6. A Conversation with Gene WolfeNancy Kress and Calvin Rich7. An Interview with Gene WolfeElliott Swanson8. On Encompassing the Entire Universe: An Interview with Gene WolfeLarry McCaffery9. Gene Wolfe InterviewJames B. Jordan10. Gene Wolfe InterviewBrendan Baber11. Peter and the Wolfe: Gene Wolfe in ConversationPeter Wright12. Suns New, Long, and Short: An Interview with Gene WolfeLawrence Person13. A Magus of Many Suns: An Interview with Gene WolfeNick Gevers14. Some Moments with the Magus: An Interview with Gene WolfeNick Gevers, Michael Andre-Driussi and James JordanPart II: The Wild Joy of Strumming15. Books in The Book of the New Sun16. Wolfe’s Rules: What You Must Do to Be a Writer17. Balding, Avuncular Gene’s Quick and Dirty Guide to Creating Memorable Characters18. Wolfe’s Irreproducible Truths About Novels19. Nor the Summers as Golden: Writing Multivolume Works20. What Do They Mean, SF?21. The Special Problems of Science Fiction22. How to Be a Writer’s Family23. Libraries on the Superhighway – Rest Stop or Roadkill?24. The Handbook of Permissive English25. More Than Half of You Can’t Read This26. Wolfe’s Inalienable Truths About Reviewing27. A Fantasist Reads the Bible and Its CriticsIndex

Gene Wolfe is a fascinating and infuriating writer whose oblique style, complexity of tone, playfulness of manner, and insistence that we read more between the lines than in practically any other sf novelist mean that his work demands and repays endless close investigation. The book is, inevitably, going to prove valuable.Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 36, Part 1