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INTERVIEW: with author Oliver Brackenbury Sword & sorcery fiction kicks so much ass. From its humble beginnings to its current incarnation, sword & sorcery (or S&S) began in magazines, telling tales of high adventure, horrific terror, and thr...

I’ve been a fan of New Edge (or NESS) for quite a while now, and I was delighted to speak with Oliver Brackenbury about how he got into the genre, NESS’s origin story, the community surrounding the magazine, and where he hopes to take it in the future.

A copy of In Viriconium by M. John Harrison: richly colored cover art of a scene with two figures lying drinking in otherwise empty architecture, the feel baroque/decadent; the book is lain on a scarf of silk scraps also richly colored to suit.

An influential book.

This excellent photo from @amybrown.xyz inspired my husband to remind me that Gene Wolfe (yes, the sciencce fiction writer) helped invent Pringles.

www.foodandwine.com/gene-wolfe-p...

I do not have time for it but I have started to read THE BOOK OF THE NEW SUN and it's all @scumbelievable.bsky.social's fault.

man. gene wolfe didn't draw maps. but you guys just gotta have em

*I am 100% adamant the biggest (plural) influence of ASOIAF is Book Of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe. I mean Jon Snow literally parallels Severian plot wise and not just visually!

RIP Dan Simmons. PRAYERS TO BROKEN STONES is one of my favorite single-author SF/horror anthologies ever published. A writer of tremendous talent and feeling.

Just heard the terrible news that Dan Simmons died on Saturday. A majestic writer, and a massive influence on me.

Carrion Comfort. The Hyperion series. The Terror.

All of those are among my all time favourite books.

Even in death may he be triumphant!!!

#dansimmons

Ha muerto Dan Simmons, autor de Hyperion. Uno de los grandes.

SONG OF KALI A NOVEL BY DAN SIMMONS

THE EPIC NOVEL OF TERROR FROM THE WINNER OF THE WORLD FANTASY AWARD CARRION COMFORT DAN SIMMONS 'DAN SIMMONS IS BRILLIANT' DEAN R KOONTZ

SUMMER OF NGHT DAN SIMMONS

A NOVEL BY DAN SIMMONS HYPERION

RIP Dan Simmons.

Ah! I'm from the spoilercast. I don't mind.
Tchaikovsky has appended his story to Wolfe's universe just as Wolfe's appended The Wizard Knight to Poul Anderson's "Three Hearts & Three Lions" and appended "An Evil Guest" to Cory Doctorow's "Someone Comes to Town Someone Leaves Town"

By Guillaume Sorel

I haven't read that yet (by Adrian Tchaikovsky, Wolfe fan).
Can you post the page?

Shadow and Claw, the first two books of Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun

"Life, after all, is not a high thing, and in many ways is the reverse of purity."

I only chime in because the truth is so remarkable.
In justifying having written himself into a corner, GRRM (a Wolfe fan) noted how "lucky" Wolfe was that he had job and didn't have to worry about publishing deadlines. GRRM should know better than using GW as a productivity standard.

…but suffers from it only in the way Br’er Rabbit suffered from the briar patch.

lately my reading list has been populated from this one long gene wolfe interview that i read a few paragraphs at a time

Does not suffer.

Ronald Clyne's cover for the fanzine "The Fantasite", February 1944

Ronald Clyne's cover for "Something Near" by August Derleth

John Jude Palencar's cover for "The Wall at the Edge of the World" by Jim Aikin

John Jude Palencar's cover for "Earthsong" by Suzette Haden Elgin

Artist Ronald Clyne sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/clyne_... died and artist John Jude Palencar sf-encyclop edia.com/entry/palencar_john_jude was born on this day, so here's some of their cover art (1&2 Clyne, 3&4 Palencar):

Northern Illinois University (NIU) inherited his papers but they are still being inventoried.
Texas A&M University has a specific collection of Gene Wolfe materials but I don’t know what’s in it.

It’s not impossible because he did write multiple novels simultaneously. He started FREE LIVE FREE “to get Severian’s voice out of my head” (remember he was still working a 40hr/wk job). Alas, probably he was doing less at 87.

He wrote every day until he physically could not anymore -- including during 10 yr span when he was caring for his dying wife. With his eyes failing and unable to write an hour day, he sent his final novel to the publisher and went to heaven a month later.

TBF, Gene Wolfe retired at 53 after completing his magnum opus The Book of the New Sun. But by that time, he'd published five novels, a book of essays, around 150 short fictions while working a 40 hr/wk job. He sold his 1st story at 34. After retiring he wrote 160 shorts & 25 novel-sized volumes.

trying not to re-read book of the new sun because i really want to finish monte cristo.

Give me five hundred million dollars and I will show you a BOOK OF THE NEW SUN that makes television illegal.

bsky.app/profile/leav...

owning a copy of book of the new sun now punishable by up to 2 years in prison in the uk, sources say.