Werthead Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 Shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GallowKnight Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 Damn. I haven't read that much of Wolfe, but I spent a few days last summer totally engrossed with Latro In The Mist. Truly a great writer and a fantastic storyteller. RIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caligula_K3 Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 This is such sad news, and it comes in the middle of my re-read of Book of the Short Sun, so all of his talents as a writer are fresh in my mind. There's nobody else like Wolfe in sci-fi fantasy. What a loss for the genre and literature in general. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sologdin Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 terminus est. RIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry of the Lawn Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 40 minutes ago, GallowKnight said: Damn. I haven't read that much of Wolfe, but I spent a few days last summer totally engrossed with Latro In The Mist. Truly a great writer and a fantastic storyteller. RIP Just found my copy of Latro the other day. Going to pop a can of pringles and read some tonight in remembrance. RIP GW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antonius Pius Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 Sad to hear this I loved his Book of the New Sun. His prose isn’t always easy, but he was a great writer. I already had Soldier in the Mist laying ready on my nightstand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt b Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 Fuck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Richard II Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Richard II Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 1 hour ago, matt b said: Fuck. Yeah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inkdaub Posted April 16, 2019 Share Posted April 16, 2019 Very sad news. RIP Gene Wolfe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser Drewy Posted April 16, 2019 Share Posted April 16, 2019 Damn, this is a blow. R.I.P Gene Wolfe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Marquis de Leech Posted April 16, 2019 Share Posted April 16, 2019 Oh god. So sad. So fucking sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilbur Posted April 16, 2019 Share Posted April 16, 2019 After coming back to the States for college, I remember picking up The Claw of the Conciliator at The Big Bookstore and, upon reading it, realizing that this was the sort of book to which I could actually apply the ideas and concepts I was learning in my literary criticism class. Once I finally realized that he was writing of a Vanceian milieu, my mind was really blown.Probably my favorites among his books, however, were Solider of the Mist and Soldier of Arete. Wonderful in their conception, they put me exactly into that spot where I, too, saw the world new everyday as a Greek soldier of the classical world having suffered a head wound and unable to form new memories. We had a re-read of The Book of the New Sun led by Fragile Bird going on here in this forum that ended after the third book - I wish it had continued. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ormond Posted April 16, 2019 Share Posted April 16, 2019 So sad to hear of the passing of one of the greatest authors of speculative fiction. Here is a link to the Locus obituary in case anyone would like to read it. https://locusmag.com/2019/04/gene-wolfe-1931-2019/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Proficiency Posted April 16, 2019 Share Posted April 16, 2019 Terminus Est. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilbur Posted April 16, 2019 Share Posted April 16, 2019 And is the obituary from Tor.com. https://www.tor.com/2019/04/15/gene-wolfe-in-memoriam-1931-2019/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infidel Posted April 17, 2019 Share Posted April 17, 2019 Everyone should read Peace. Probably twice.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caligula_K3 Posted April 17, 2019 Share Posted April 17, 2019 Peace, the first two Latro books, The Book of the New Sun, and the Book of the Short Sun are all classics. Many of his short stories are also excellent. The giant collection of his short stories released a few years back is definitely worth getting . I don't think I've read a bad Wolfe book; even the ones I didn't enjoy as much (Live Free Live, the Wizard-Knight, Pirate Freedom) have been thought provoking at the least, and his prose always makes reading him worthwhile. What an author he was! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
End of Disc One Posted April 18, 2019 Share Posted April 18, 2019 RIP Gene Wolfe grew on my Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caligula_K3 Posted April 21, 2019 Share Posted April 21, 2019 On 4/19/2019 at 9:26 PM, Triskele said: I enjoyed this write-up. Torn between trying Latro or Short Sun next. Thanks for this great article. I'm not Catholic at all, but there's no denying that Wolfe's Catholicism is a beautiful element of his fiction. You can't go wrong with either Latro or the Short Sun- I'd say it depends on if you're in the mood for a historical fantasy or a sci-fi fantasy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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