Part of the Fantasy Masterworks series - '[Gene Wolfe's] most intricate and personal work...it is central to any full attempt to understand his other novels, his sense of the great painfulness of any shaped life, or his methods in general' THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SCIENCE FICTION 'A tricky, evil, deep and remarkable novel' Neil Gaiman 'Gene Wolfe is unique. If there were forty or fifty of this first-rate author - no, let's be reasonable and ask Higher Authorities for only four or five - American Literature as a whole would be enormously enriched' CHICAGO SUN TIMES 'May be his finest. Intricately to
Gene Wolfe (1931 -) Gene Wolfe was born in New York in 1931 and raised in Texas. After serving in the Korean War he graduated in mechanical engineering from the University of Houston and worked in engineering until becoming an editor of a trade periodical, Plant Engineering, in 1972. Since retiring from this post in 1984, he has written full-time. The author of over three dozen award-wining novels and story collections, he is regarded as one of modern fantasy's most important writers. His best-known work, the four volume far-future Book of the New Sun, won the World Fantasy, BSFA, Nebula, British Fantasy and John W. Campbell memorial Awards. He has won the World Fantasy Award four times for his novels and collections and the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award for his extraordinary body of work. Gene Wolfe lives in Illinois with his wife, Rosemary.
Wolfe's novel about a bitter old man whose highly imaginative memoirs go beyond the real world and into another dimension is available for the first time in over a decade. (July)
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