#Gene Wolfe

[torpublishinggroup]

TOR WRAPPED 2023

Books for every Spotify Wrapped listener class! 

VAMPIRE

Masters of Death by Olivie Blake

Starling House by Alix E. Harrow

Mordew by Alex Pheby

HYPNOTIST

The Library of the Dead by T. L. Huchu

Daughter of Redwinter by Ed McDonald

Spring’s Arcana by Lilith Saintcrow

ALCHEMIST

The Bone Orchard by Sara A. Mueller

The Genesis of Misery by Neon Yang

The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey

SHAPESHIFTER

Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher

The Warden by Daniel M. Ford

Wolfsong by TJ Klune

FANATIC

Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson

Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree

The Fragile Threads of Power by V. E. Schwab

TIME TRAVELER

Kinning by Nisi Shawl

She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab

MASTERMIND

The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

Red Team Blues by Cory Doctorow

Exadelic by Jon Evans

COLLECTOR

The Wolfe at the Door by Gene Wolfe

Cassiel’s Servant by Jacqueline Carey

The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan

#spotify #spotify wrapped #tor books #the great hunt #the wolfe at the door #cassiel's servant #jacqueline carey #robert jordan #gene wolfe #exadelic #jon evans #red team blues #cory doctorow #the atlas six #olivie blake #kinning #nisi shawl #she who became the sun #shelley parker-chan #the invisible life of addie larue #v e schwab #mistborn #brandon sanderson #bookshops & bonedust #travis baldree #the fragile threads of power #thornhedge #t kingfisher #ursula vernon #wolfsong

[ohotnig]

SKETCHBOOK OF FULIGIN is live! ohotnig.itch.io/fuligin ohotnig.gumroad.com/l/fuligin Here's something nice for you, especially if you're a Gene Wolfe fan: brand new digital fanzine, containing 44 pages of my Book of the New Sun-inspired drawings (originally done as personal sketchbook project for one of my most committed patrons). This little book could also be considered an unofficial companion piece for Book of Fuligin (www.kickstarter.com/projects/715611068/book-of-fuligin-honoring-the-legacy-of-gene-wolfe)

You can grab it for free (as usual) or get an extended edition for $3+ donation! Cheers!

#gene wolfe #book of the new sun #fanzine #zine #fanart #book of fuligin #sketchbook of fuligin #artyom trakhanov

[retroscifiart]

Bruce Pennington for The Shadow of the Torturer (Gene Wolfe, 1980)

#bruce pennington #gene wolfe

[lil-tachyon]

"I have seen the eyes of many of these creatures that are supposed to have come from beyond the margin of the world ... but their eyes are the eyes of beasts only. The red orbs of the alzabo were something more, holding neither the intelligence of humankind nor the innocence of the brutes" - Gene Wolfe, The Sword of the Lictor

Oldie from nearly two years ago done for The Book of Fuligin.

#gene wolfe #alzabo #book of the new sun #xenobiology #sci fi art

[teratocrat]

His grip on my shoulder tightened. "We have books here bound in the hides of echidnas, krakens, and beasts so long extinct that those whose studies they are, are for the most part of the opinion that no trace of them survives unfossilized. We have books bound wholly in metals of unknown alloy, and books whose bindings are covered with thickset gems. We have books cased in perfumed woods shipped across the inconceivable gulf between creations - books doubly precious because no one on Urth can read them. "We have books whose papers are matted of plants from which spring curious alkaloids, so that the reader, in turning their pages, is taken unaware by bizarre fantasies and chimeric dreams. Books whose pages are not paper at all, but delicate wafers of white jade, ivory, and shell; books too whose leaves are the desiccated leaves of unknown plants. Books we have also that are not books at all to the eye: scrolls and tablets and recordings on a hundred different substances. There is a cube of crystal here - though I can no longer tell you where - no larger than the ball of your thumb that contains more books than the library itself does. Though a harlot might dangle it from one ear for an ornament, there are not volumes enough in the world to counterweight the other. All these I came to know, and I made safeguarding them my life's devotion."

Gene Wolfe, Shadow of the Torturer (1980)

#Gene Wolfe #Book of the New Sun #botns #Shadow of the Torturer #Shadow and Claw

[figcatlists]

“Literary” speculative fiction reading list

A list of recommended sci-fi and fantasy books with high-quality prose and serious or complex themes, including works by Le Guin, Wolfe, Delany, Miéville, and Banks. This selection is drawn from a much longer list of well-written and ambitious SF that I published on my website.

#book recs #book recommendations #book reccs #reading list #book list #speculative fiction #science fiction #fantasy #sci fi and fantasy #le guin #china mieville #iain banks #gene wolfe #samuel r. delany #literary #literature

[hypergraphiacreads]

#marginalia #annotations #reading #books #booklover #studybrl #studylr #gene wolfe #the fifth head of Cerberus #annotating books #books and literature

[magicraygun]

read book of the new sun read book of the new sun read book of the new sun

also I started weaning myself off of traditional art via ms paint

wahey

#book of the new sun #gene wolfe #severian #thecla #fanart #scifi #ms paint #dying earth

[strangerspub]

Book of Fuligin | Garresh

Three pages from Garresh for the upcoming Book of Fuligin; a comics anthology set on Urth, telling stories to honor Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun and celebrate his genre-defining legacy.

#Book of Fuligin #Garresh #gene wolfe #book of the new sun #dark fantasy #Strangers Publishing #comics #scifiart #art #comic art

[mkllpz]

DECEMBER 2023 (Part 1)

Last year I wrote a three-part year-in-review that was a fun way to summarize the year for others and also remind myself of everything I set in motion after returning to comics after a break. Here's 2023's look back at a year of writing comics:

Pulp Literature

Issue 37 of Pulp Literature included "A Cold Place Between the Shores" by me and @ohotnig, a sci-fi story in which the killing of a bear causes tension that may lead to war unless a lieutenant and a bear can negotiate peace. The story was published in black and white (as was "Forgive My Delay" which was published in issue 36), but the story appears in color in my collection A Cold Place Between the Shores (more on the collection below).

● “A Cold Place Between the Shores”

● “Forgive My Delay"

▼ A page from “A Cold Place Between the Shores” by Artyom Trakhanov▼

Last Chance to Find Duke

Shang Zhang’s Last Chance to Find Duke, which I edited, was published by @peowstudio at the end of 2022 and quickly sold out; it was reprinted this year but sold out again. It was selected as one of the Beat’s 30 Best Comics of 2022 and was also nominated for an Ignatz Award for ‘Outstanding Graphic Novel’. Hopefully it'll be reprinted again soon!

▼ Last Chance to Find Duke by Shang Zhang ▼

A Column of Ashes

Book of Fuligin, an anthology inspired by the work of Gene Wolfe, which includes the sci-fi/horror story "A Column of Ashes" by me and H. Berlin, was successfully crowdfunded and will, after a few delays, hopefully be published early next year (as is the case with the similarly delayed After the End, which includes the story "Lápida" by me and Tim Fischer).

● "A Column of Ashes"

● "Lápida"

▼ A panel from "A Column of Ashes" by H. Berlin▼

A Cold Place Between the Shores

I reprinted A Cold Place Between the Shores, my self-published collection of three short stories: the titular story illustrated by @ohotnig; "The Tea House" illustrated by @lemlemur; "Dafina" illustrated by @davidaguado142. I redesigned the cover of the reprint and added a few pages of sketches and concept art for each story.

The collection is now distributed by Strangers in the US and is otherwise available directly from me.

● “A Cold Place Between the Shores”

● “The Tea House”

● “Dafina”

▼ The cover of A Cold Place Between the Shores by David Aguado▼

▼ The back cover of A Cold Place Between the Shores by Artyom Trakhanov▼

Part 2

#comics #pulp literature #sci #scifi #science fiction #peow #entomology #gene wolfe

[taravangianlistenstothebeachboys]

I love Severian so fucking much

#book of the new sun #gene wolfe #the citadel of the autarch

[thelastofthebookworms]

You'll find the other polls in my 'sf polls' tag / my pinned post.

#polls #science fiction #sf polls #a fire upon the deep #vernor vinge #book of the new sun #gene wolfe #old man's war #john scalzi #the gods themselves #isaac asimov #shards of honor #the vorkosigan saga #vorkosigan saga #lois mcmaster bujold #contact #carl sagan #ringworld #larry niven #nine princes in amber #the chronicles of amber #chronicles of amber #roger zelazny #dragonflight #dragonriders of pern #anne mccaffrey

[domjordanillustration]

severian

#severian #book of the new sun #gene wolfe #journeyman #lictor #Seekers for Truth and Penitence #guild of torturers #fan art

[apesoformythoughts]

“If I had seen one miracle fail, I had witnessed another; and even a seemingly purposeless miracle is an inexhaustible source of hope, because it proves to us that since we do not understand everything, our defeats—so much more numerous than our few and empty victories—may be equally specious.”

— The Sword of the Lictor

#the sword of the lictor #the book of the new sun #gene wolfe #the romance of orthodoxy

[abbyn0rmal]

Coolest thing abt Gene Wolfe's writing to me (new sun and long sun specifically) is how well he plays with form and convention. Like on a surface read both of these series are pretty straightforward scifi/fantasy (the play btw these two genres and ur perception of which type ur reading is also really cool in new sun) that use common conventions of the genre for the time they were written. but if your able to read into the subtext of the flowery and confusing language you start to understand how deep and interesting the narrative, world, and characters are.

and that's PART of Wolfe's genius to me. the fact he is able to squeeze in so much depth (4 the characters + world) and foreshadowing into these narratives that are, in this current day, played out and well known.

But! the best part is once you realize what level Wolfe is operating on you can see these books on a certain level ARE parodies of the genres they belong in. Like new sun takes LOTR's "return the magical jewelery to whence it came, jesus boy" and adds sooo much more to it (like: what if jesus was a torturer instead of a carpenter?). but you could also read the entire series and think its just a shitty lotr knockoff with a cop out ending.

same thing in Long Sun, hes like oh you guys like star wars now? check this out: youth pastor detective with a light saber and dope han solo blaster! Its a really cool technique. everything feels very serious in his novels, but once he sees that you can comprehend the story on a deep enough level he lets you in on sooo many jokes, which feels very rewarding as a reader.

but then at the same time he's not afraid of the casual reader, the stories ARE compelling enough on that surface level to carry you through to the end, where he explicitly tells you (at least in new sun) "hey go read this book again, i dont think you got everything you can from it"

#@killyfromblame said theres not enough new sun posts on here #so im doing my part #Book of The New Sun #Gene Wolfe #Long Sun #Severian #Silk

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

#the shadow of the torturer #gene wolfe #book poll #have you read this book poll #polls #big sword big sword