The Rereading Wolfe Podcast | 重读沃尔夫播客

"Nosferatu? That's a name I haven't heard in a long time..."

Artist and author Enki Bilal sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/bilal_... was born on this day, so here's some examples of his artwork:

Really did not know there was an audience for Gene Wolfe posting!

"All novels are fantasies. Some are more honest about it."
Gene Wolfe

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This week's new SFE entries are here sf-encyclopedia.com/whatsnew.php - for the Japanese tv series 'Spectreman' (1971/1972) [US English dub broadcast in 1978]; the short-lived US comic "NoMan" (1966/1967) and the Polish 'Sfinks Award'. The 2nd image is from the cover of a 1972 Spectreman single:

But the sheer size of these Baroque Cycle tomes are making it difficult on the morning commute. As such, also picked up Gene Wolfe’s Fifth Head of Cerberus and reading that on my train journeys. Haven’t read Wolfe for 35+ years, let’s see what all the fuss is about hey?

A busy week! Finished Space Rat 02 (available on my ko-fi)
Nearly finished a big linocut commission, made t-shirts for the kids, and finished my fanart shirt for Book of the New Sun

Thinking about SEVEN AMERICAN NIGHTS by Gene Wolfe and how initially you think it’s a post-apocalyptic or dystopian story and then gradually figure out it’s about a U.S. that had regressed while the rest of the world advanced

i will revise some of my earlier opinion that book of the new sun isn't shitposty enough, this is the tale of the quest that ensues when you give the quiet, kind of dreamy kid in class a massive fuckoff sword and $3.25 and drop him by the side of the highway with a job waiting three states away

My own SFF conception of LLMs as intelligence is kinda like Gene Wolfe’s megatherians from BOTNS - colossal distributed beings whose pawns speak in regurgitated phrases but which can also create a sexy mermaid

Stations Of the Tide is a fantastic novel, the kind that lives in your head ever after, and Swanwick is an author worth following.

When we spoke to Swanwick, he denied he intended this as a Gene Wolfe homage save that the protagonist, the Bureaucrat, a man who’d never stand out in a crowd but carried a world of hidden magic, was based on Wolfe (this was before he grew his iconic mustache).

"Wolfe continues to be strange in almost interesting ways."

Fainting with damned praise! Thank you for sticking with us.

What the story is “about”:
It shows that the power of a technology rests in the hands of those practically responsible for implementing it not those who arrogantly assume a title.
In this case, the power lies in the hands of a fellow whose goals are the opposite of grandiose.

Galactic Journey reviews (as if they were contemporary reviewers of 55 years ago) this issue of Worlds of If. Wolfe named “King Under the Mountain” as one of his two worst short fiction SFs. I’m comfortable saying that it is his worst story I ever read.

Did you ever read the Chronicles of Prydain? Kinda basic but remember really liking them as a kid lol. Book of the New Sun is probably my favorite fantasy book overall.

YouTube video by En jeu ! 💡Légendes du Nouveau Soleil💡

Plongeons dans Les Légendes du Nouveau Soleil, le JdR inspiré de Gene Wolfe : un univers , mystérieux et fascinant, servi par le système Opale Noire.

🎲 Présentation complète en vidéo :
youtu.be/GsiSh87nCsU

currently reading

any of y'all read much or like any of these books/authors?

-reading Thief of Always out loud to my wife
-reading Tigana for a "book club" with my coworker/friend (we're the only two members)
-reading Book of the Short Sun because Gene Wolfe rules

The protagonist has a fetish. He's erotically attracted to women who suggest his mother -- such as being much larger than himself. This is canon.

Oh good we’re inventing Exultants from the book of the new sun

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