New Releases by Gene Wolfe

An all new collection from an American literary icon The circus comes to town... and a man gets to go to the stars. A young girl on a vacation at the sea meets the man of her dreams. Who just happens to be dead. And an immortal pirate. A swordfighter pens his memoirs... and finds his pen is in fact mightier than the sword. Welcome to Gene Wolfe’s playground, a place where genres blend and a genius’s imagination straps you in for the ride of your life. The Wolfe at the Door is a brand new collection from one of America’s premier literary giants, showcasing some material never been seen before. Short stories, yes, but also poems, essays, and ephemera that gives us a window into the mind of a literary powerhouse whose world view changed generations of readers in their perception of the universe. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Although best known for his world-building Book of the New Sun science-fantasy saga, Gene Wolfe wrote brilliant fiction that resisted encapsulation within rigid genre categories. This volume collects twenty-eight tales spanning nearly a half century--six of them never before collected--and gathered from venues as varied as men''s magazines, periodicals devoted to short works of fantasy and science fiction, and tribute anthologies to the works of authors as wildly opposed in their literary visions as Dante and H. P. Lovecraft. Although selected for their overtones of "horror," they frequently defy the conventions that contemporary category label conjures. Take "Talk of Mandrakes," a tale of malignant exo-biology spun from an ancient occult legend steeped in sex magic. Or "The Other Dead Man," a story set aboard an interstellar spacecraft that would distinguish any anthology of zombie fiction it appeared in. "Innocent" is cast in the form of a dramatic monologue whose creepy first-person narrator details increasingly aberrant behavior that defies the formal psychological diagnosis it cries out for. And "In the House of Gingerbread" recasts a classic children''s fairy tale as a dark noir whodunit. To be sure, Wolfe willingly embraced horror''s classic tropes, but he reworked them into remarkably original signatures through his personal creative ingenuity: There is much lycanthropy, but nary a hairy transformation in his futuristic "The Hero as Werwolf." "The Vampire Kiss" reinterprets its titular monster as a scourge of the poor in Dickensian London. And in "Why I Was Hanged," the disadvantages of accepting advice from the ghosts of the living are made abundantly manifest. Their macabre inflections notwithstanding Wolfe''s horror stories abound with affecting character studies that cleave the distance between the horrible and the human: the changeling child adapting to an unfamiliar life as a mortal in "Queen of the Night"; the investigator in "The Detective of Dreams" dedicated by occupation to freeing his clients from their nightmares; the woman in "Uncaged," whose feral persona may be an expression of her true self. Wolfe''s tales of horror, like all of his fiction, are stories in which readers--however uneasily--recognize, and relate to, much of themselves.

The Citadel of Autarch brings The Book of the New Sun to its harrowing conclusion, as Severian clashes in a final reckoning with the dread Autarch, fulfilling an ancient prophecy that will alter forever the realm known as Urth.

“Gene Wolfe is the smartest, subtlest, most dangerous writer alive today, in genre or out of it. This book [is] important and wonderful.” —Neil Gaiman on The Knight A novel in two volumes, The Wizard Knight is in the rare company of works of fantasy like The Once and Future King, or The Wizard of Earthsea, that drink directly from the wellspring of myth. Now it appears in a single-volume edition for the first time. A young man in his teens is transported from our world to a magical realm consisting of seven levels of reality. Transformed by magic into a grown man of heroic proportions, he takes the name Sir Able of the High Heart and sets out on a quest to find the sword that has been promised to him, the blade that will help him fulfill his ambition to become a true hero—a true knight. Inside, however, Sir Able remains a boy, and he must grow in every sense to survive what lies ahead... “[Wolfe] should enjoy the same rapt attention we afford to Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, and Cormac McCarthy.” —The Washington Post on The Knight “Wolfe’s version of Faerie is both allusive and elusive, beautiful and fatally glamorous.” —Tad Williams on The Knight With a new introduction by Yves Meynard, acclaimed author of The Book of Knights. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Interlibrary Loan is the brilliant follow-up to A Borrowed Man: the final work of fiction from multi-award winner and national literary treasure Gene Wolfe. A 2021 Locus Award Finalist! Hundreds of years in the future our civilization is shrunk down but we go on. There is advanced technology, there are robots. And there are clones. E. A. Smithe is a borrowed person, his personality an uploaded recording of a deceased mystery writer. Smithe is a piece of property, not a legal human. As such, Smithe can be loaned to other branches. Which he is. Along with two fellow reclones, a cookbook and romance writer, they are shipped to Polly’s Cove, where Smithe meets a little girl who wants to save her mother, a father who is dead but perhaps not. And another E.A. Smithe... who definitely is. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Kritik und Leser sind sich einig: Sherlock Holmes war – und ist – der größte Detektiv aller Zeiten. Und er wird es bleiben, auch in der Zukunft. Unter der Schirmherrschaft von Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg und Charles Waugh haben sich die gewitztesten Verfasser der Phantastik zusammengetan, um erfindungsreich und wortgewandt zu beweisen, dass der Meister der Deduktion auch in der Ära der Mikrochips und Computer unschlagbar ist – auch wenn gelegentlich Maschinen dazu dienen, seine ungewöhnlichen Methoden zu vervollkommnen. Sir Arthur Conan Doyles größter Held – erstmals in Welten und Zeiten versetzt, die sein Schöpfer sich nie träumen ließ! Erleben Sie seine haarsträubenden Abenteuer in Utopia! Ein einmaliges Lesevergnügen garantieren – neben Arthur Conan Doyle – Isaac Asimov, Philip José Farmer, Anne Lear, Poul Anderson, Gordon R. Dickson, Barbara Williamson, Sterling E. Lanier, Mack Reynolds, Edward Wellen, Fred Saberhagen, Gene Wolf, Richard Lupoff und James Powell. Der ultimative Trip - für Krimi- und Science-Fiction-Leser gleichermaßen!

This discounted Gene Wolfe ebundle includes: The Shadow of the Torturer, The Claw of the Conciliator, The Sword of the Lictor, The Citadel of the Autarch, The Urth of the New Sun “Magic stuff...a masterpiece...the best science fiction I''ve read in years!” —Ursula K. Le Guin The Book of the New Sun is unanimously acclaimed as Gene Wolfe’s most remarkable work, hailed as “a masterpiece of science fantasy comparable in importance to the major works of Tolkien and Lewis” by Publishers Weekly, and “one of the most ambitious works of speculative fiction in the twentieth century” by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. The Shadow of the Torturer introduces young Severian, an apprentice in the Guild of Torturers on the world called Urth, who has been exiled for committing the ultimate sin of his profession—showing mercy toward his victim. The Claw of the Conciliator continues the saga of Severian, banished from his home, as he undertakes a mythic quest to discover the awesome power of an ancient relic, and learn the truth about his hidden destiny. The Sword of the Lictor is the third volume in Wolfe''s remarkable epic, chronicling the odyssey of the wandering pilgrim called Severian, driven by a powerful and unfathomable destiny, as he carries out a dark mission far from his home. The Citadel of the Autarch brings The Book of the New Sun to its harrowing conclusion, as Severian clashes in a final reckoning with the dread Autarch, fulfilling an ancient prophecy that will forever alter the realm known as Urth. The Urth of the New Sun is the long awaited sequel to Gene Wolfe''s four-volume classic, The Book of the New Sun. We return to the world of Severian, now the Autarch of Urth, as he leaves the planet on one of the huge spaceships of the alien Hierodules to travel across time and space to face his greatest test yet. More Tor books by Gene Wolfe The Book of the Long Sun Nightside the Long Sun Lake of the Long Sun Caldé of the Long Sun At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Unlucky thieves invade a house where Home Alone seems like a playground romp. An antique bookseller and a mob enforcer join forces to retrieve the Atlas of Hell. Postapocalyptic survivors cannot decide which is worse: demon women haunting the skies or maddened extremists patrolling the earth. In this chilling twenty-first-century companion to the cult classic Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror, Ellen Datlow again proves herself the most masterful editor of the genre. She has mined the breadth and depth of ten years of terror, collecting superlative works of established masters and scene-stealing newcomers alike.

Aufbruch in eine ungewisse Zukunft Eine Million Jahre in der Zukunft: Die Technik ist bis auf wenige Rest verschwunden. Die Menschheit fiel kulturell ins Mittelalter zurück und harrt der Ankunft der neuen Sonne, die ein neues Zeitalter herbeiführen soll. Dies ist die Geschichte Severians, eines Waisenjungen, der in der Zunft der Folterer aufwächst und dieses Handwerk erlernt. Doch als er eines Tages aus Mitleid einer Frau den Selbstmord gestattet, wird er aus dieser Zunft ausgestoßen. Doch anstatt selbst gefoltert und hingerichtet zu werden, schickt die Gilde ihn nach Thrax, einer weit entfernten Stadt, die einen Henker braucht. Severian macht sich auf eine Reise, die sein Leben für immer verändern wird ...

Eine gefährliche Suche Severian, der junge Henker, ist endlich in Thrax angekommen und nimmt seinen Posten als Liktor, als oberster Vollstrecker des Gesetzes, ein. Er bezieht seine Wohnung im Gefängnis, und mit ihm seine Lebensgefährtin Dorcas, die er auf der langen und abenteuerlichen Reise nach Thrax kennenlernte. Doch sie hält es in der erdrückenden Atmosphäre nicht lange aus und verlässt ihn, und auch Severian macht sich bald erneut auf den Weg, denn nach wie vor ist er im Besitz der Klaue des Schlichters, dessen wahre Besitzer er in den Bergen zu finden hofft. Mystische Kreaturen sollen es sein, die nicht menschlich sind ...

In The Land Across, Gene Wolfe''s engrossing fantasy novel, readers are kept guessing until the very end, and long after. An American writer of travel guides in need of a new location chooses to travel to a small and obscure Eastern European country. The moment Grafton crosses the border he is in trouble, much more than he could have imagined. His passport is taken by guards, and then he is detained for not having it. He is released into the custody of a family, but is again detained. It becomes evident that there are supernatural agencies at work, but they are not in some ways as threatening as the brute forces of bureaucracy and corruption in that country. Is our hero in fact a spy for the CIA? Or is he an innocent citizen caught in a Kafkaesque trap? A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of 2013 At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

An all-star tribute to Gene Wolfe, featuring the work of Neil Gaiman, David Brin, Nancy Kress, and others

The best stories of the year: here is a collection of the year''s best fantasy stories, by some of the genre''s greatest authors, and selected by Rich Horton, a contributing reviewer to many of the field''s most respected magazines. In this volume you''ll find stories Peter Beagle, Paul Di Filippo, Neil Gaiman, Theodora Goss, Kelly Link, Gene Wolfe and many more! Complete contents: PIP AND THE FAIRIES, by Theodora Goss COMBER, by Gene Wolfe THREE URBAN FOLK TALES, by Eric Schaller WAX, by Elizabeth Bear THE EMPEROR OF GONDWANALAND, by Paul Di Filippo COMMCOMM, by George Saunders FIVE WAYS JANE AUSTEN NEVER DIED, by Samantha Henderson FANCY BREAD, by Gregory Feeley SUNBIRD, by Neil Gaiman THE SECRET OF BROKEN TICKERS, by Joe Murphy ON THE BLINDSIDE, by Sonya Taaffe JANE, by Marc Laidlaw IS THERE LIFE AFTER REHAB? by Pat Cadigan TWO HEARTS, Peter S. Beagle SUPER-VILLAINS, Michael Canfield EMPTY PLACES, by Richard Parks INVISIBLE, by Steve Rasnic Tem BY THE LIGHT OF TOMORROW’S SUN, by Holly Phillips THE GIST HUNTER, by Matthew Hughes

A collection of some of the best original short fiction published on Tor.com in 2012. Includes stories by Elizabeth Bear, Adam Troy Castro, Paul Cornell, Kathryn Cramer, Brit Mandelo, Pat Murphy, Charles Stross, Michael Swanwick, Rachel Swirsky, and Gene Wolfe. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Wildside book of Fantasy presents 20 great fantasy tales by modern masters. Included are stories by Tanith Lee, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Gene Wolfe, Fritz Leiber, Lawrence Watt-Evans, Robert E. Howard, and many more. A choice selection of tales! THE DEAD MAN, by Gene Wolfe BRIGHT STREETS OF AIR, by Nina Kiriki Hoffman THE DOLPHIN AND THE DEEP, by Thomas Burnett Swann THE SWORDSMEN OF VARNIS, by Clive Jackson THE EMPEROR OF GONDWANALAND, by Paul Di Filippo SPACE-TIME FOR SPRINGERS, by Fritz Leiber RED NAILS, by Robert E. Howard ARMS AND THE WOMAN, by Lawrence Watt-Evans THE BRIDE OF THE MAN-HORSE, by Lord Dunsany THE WOMAN, by Tanith Lee DREAMTIME IN ADJAPHON, by John Gregory Betancourt THE BLACK ABBOT OF PUTHUUM, by Clark Ashton Smith BLACK HAWK OF VALKARTH, by Lin Carter THE DEVIL’S CRYPT, by E. Hoffmann Price VANDIBAR NASHA IN THE COLLEGE OF SHADOWS, by Darrell Schwetizer THE POWER OF PRAYER, by Brian Stableford THE SECRET OF KRALITZ, by Henry Kuttner LIGHT, by Achmed Abdullah THE LOST RACE, by Robert E. Howard RINGARD AND DENDRA, by Brian McNaughton

In this companion guide, Michael Andre-Driussi illuminates Gene Wolfe''s Book of the Long Sun and Book of the Short Sun science fiction series through dictionary-style entries on the characters, gods, locations, themes, and timelines of the novels. Gate of Horn, Book of Silk, is organized in two parts, with the first half covering the Long Sun series (Nightside the Long Sun, Lake of the Long Sun, Calde of the Long Sun, and Exodus from the Long Sun) and the second half covering the Short Sun series (On Blue''s Waters, In Green''s Jungles, and Return to the Whorl). "Languages of the Whorl," a section between the two parts, covers all the dialect, slang, and foreign terms used in the books--thieves'' cant, flier language, Tick''s talk, and more. Ten maps and diagrams are included. This is Michael Andre-Driussi''s third guidebook to the rich tapestries of Gene Wolfe''s worlds. As fans of of Lexicon Urthus and The Wizard Knight Companion have noted, that each book is both a convenient tool for a question while re-reading the novels but also an enjoyable read in its own right, from A to Z.

En 479 avant J-C, un an après la célèbre bataille des Thermopyles, dans une Grèce magique où Athènes s''appelle Pensée et Sparte s''appelle Corde, erre un bien étrange amnésique. Blessé à la tête au cours d''une des sanglantes batailles de cette époque tourmentée, Latro a non seulement perdu le souvenir de son passé, mais aussi toute capacité de mémorisation. Chaque jour, il se réveille hors de tout contexte et n''a d''autre recours que de tenir son journal pour affronter l''éternel présent qu''est devenue son existence. Mais en contrepartie de cette infirmité qui l''oblige à un réapprentissage quotidien, Latro a hérité d''un don : celui de voir les êtres divins et surnaturels dont regorge la Grèce antique. Jusqu''où devra-t-il aller pour retrouver la mémoire, son nom et sa famille ? Avec son héros hors norme, ses dieux assoiffés de sang, ses mystères et ses batailles, le cycle du Soldat des brumes est sans conteste l''une des plus fascinantes créations de la fantasy contemporaine.

A collection of dark fantasy and horror stories written in 2011, with selections by Paul Finch, Lisa Tuttle, Tanith Lee, Gene Wolfe, and others.

Presents a collection of short fiction for the year 2010 featuring the work of such authors as Elizabeth Bear, Peter Watts, Rachel Swirsky, Steve Gould, and Jay Lake.

Gene Wolfe takes us to a future North America at once familiar and utterly strange. A young man and woman, Skip and Chelle, fall in love in college and marry, but she is enlisted in the military, there is a war on, and she must serve her tour of duty before they can settle down. But the military is fighting a war with aliens in distant solar systems, and her months in the service will be years in relative time on Earth. Chelle returns to recuperate from severe injuries, after months of service, still a young woman but not necessarily the same person—while Skip is in his forties and a wealthy businessman, but eager for her return. Still in love (somewhat to his surprise and delight), they go on a Caribbean cruise to resume their marriage. Their vacation rapidly becomes a complex series of challenges, not the least of which are spies, aliens, and battles with pirates who capture the ship for ransom. There is no writer in SF like Gene Wolfe and no SF novel like Home Fires. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

In a contemporary town in the American midwest where he has no connections, Bax, an educated man recently released from prison, is staying in a motel. He writes letters to his brother and to others, including a friend still in jail, to whom he progressively reveals the intriguing pieces of a strange and fantastic narrative. When he meets a real estate agent who tells him he is, to his utter surprise, the heir to a huge old house in town, long empty, he moves in. He is immediately confronted by an array of supernatural creatures and events, by love and danger. His life is utterly transformed and we read on, because we must know more. We revise our opinions of him, and of others, with each letter, piecing together more of the story as we go. We learn things about magic, and another world, and about the sorcerer Mr. Black, who originally inhabited the house. And then knowing what we now know only in the end, perhaps we read it again. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Devenu licteur de Thrace, Sévérian semble avoir trouvé l''équilibre qui lui manquait depuis son départ de Nessus. Pourtant, de mystérieuses créatures sont toujours à ses trousses et nombre de ses questions restent posées. Le bourreau en trouvera-t-il les réponses dans le lointain passé de Teur? Et quel rôle joue réellement la Griffe du Conciliateur? La quête de Sévérian va prendre un tournant décisif, pour son propre avenir et celui de la planète entière. Naviguant entre fantasy et science-fiction, Le livre du Nouveau Soleil, dont L''épée du licteur est le troisième tonie, est une des quêtes initiatiques les plus originales et inventives jamais écrites.

Cloîtré depuis l''enfance entre les murs austères de la tour Matachine, l''apprenti bourreau Sévérian ignore tout des ruelles bruissantes de Nessus et, au-delà, des merveilles et dangers de la planète Teur... jusqu''au jour où il est témoin d''une scène mystérieuse dans la nécropole. Sa rencontre avec la châtelaine Thècle, qui attend sa mise à la question, finit de sceller son destin. Sa vie prend alors un tournant inattendu et la brillante carrière qui lui était promise débouche finalement sur un voyage plein de surprises. Naviguant entre fantasy et science-fiction, Le livre du Nouveau Soleil, dont L''ombre du bourreau est le premier tome, est une des quêtes initiatiques les plus originales et inventives jamais écrites.

From a literary perspective, this will certainly be the best collection of the year in science fiction and fantasy. Gene Wolfe, of whom The Washington Post said, "Of all SF writers currently active none is held in higher esteem," has selected the short fiction he considers his finest into one volume. There are many award winners and many that have been selected for various Year''s Best anthologies. Gene Wolfe has produced possibly the finest and most significant body of short fiction in the SF and fantasy field in the last fifty years, and is certainly among the greatest living writers to emerge from the genres. This is the first retrospective collection of his entire career. It is for the ages. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Lovecraft mets Blade Runner. This is a stand-alone supernatural horror novel with a 30s noir atmosphere. Gene Wolfe can write in whatever genre he wants--and always with superb style and profound depth. Now following his World Fantasy Award winner, Soldier of Sidon, and his stunning Pirate Freedom, Wolfe turns to the tradition of H.P. Lovecraft and the weird science tale of supernatural horror. Set a hundred years in the future, An Evil Guest is a story of an actress who becomes the lover of both a mysterious sorcerer and private detective, and an even more mysterious and powerful rich man, who has been to the human colony on an alien planet and learned strange things there. Her loyalties are divided--perhaps she loves them both. The detective helps her to release her inner beauty and become a star overnight. And the rich man is the benefactor of a play she stars in. But something is very wrong. Money can be an evil guest, but there are other evils. As Lovecraft said, "That is not dead which can eternal lie." At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.