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Gene Wolfe ist ein US-amerikanischer Science-Fiction- und Fantasy-Autor.

Gene Wolfe ist bekannt für seine an Vladimir Nabokov und Jorge Luis Borges geschulte dichte und anspielungsreiche Prosa. Sein Novellen-Zyklus „Der fünfte Kopf des Zerberus“ und sein vierbändiges Science Fantasy-Epos „Das Buch der Neuen Sonne“ um den Folterer Severian gelten als Klassiker des Genres. Neben vielen anderen bedeutenden Preisen wurde er zweimal mit dem Nebula Award, sechsmal mit dem Locus Award und dreimal mit dem World Fantasy Award ausgezeichnet – Bereits 1996 wurde ihm der World Fantasy Award für sein Lebenswerk verliehen.

Wolfe studierte Maschinenbau an der Texas A&M University und diente als Soldat der US Army im Koreakrieg. Bevor er sich hauptberuflich der Schriftstellerei widmen konnte, war er lange Jahre als Redakteur der Branchenzeitschrift Plant Engineering angestellt. Als Ingenieur soll Wolfe die Pressmaschine für Pringles-Kartoffelchips entwickelt haben.

Wolfe lebt heute mit seiner Frau in einem Vorort von Chicago.

✵ 7. Mai 1931 – 14. April 2019   •   Andere Namen جین وولف
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“He is indeed a creature of evil; but so are you, and so am I.”

Quelle: Fiction, The Book of the New Sun (1980–1983), The Urth of the New Sun (1987), Chapter 43, "The Evening Tide" (p. 303)

““We can only hope.”
“That’s like the frog said when he seen the stork.””

Quelle: Fiction, The Book of the New Sun (1980–1983), The Urth of the New Sun (1987), Chapter 46, "The Runaway (p. 328)

“There is no human quality more attractive than the courage of the weak.”

Gene Wolfe buch Home Fires

Home Fires (2011), Reflection 1
Fiction

“Men build scales, but the gods blow upon the lighter pan.”

Volume 1: Nightside the Long Sun (1993), Ch. 1
Fiction, The Book of the Long Sun (1993–1996)

“You’re called a holy man,” she said. “I see you’re wholly deranged.”

Quelle: Fiction, The Book of the New Sun (1980–1983), The Urth of the New Sun (1987), Chapter 36, "The Citadel Again" (p. 255)

“Paradoxes explain everything. Since they do, they cannot be explained.”

Volume 1, Ch. 9
Fiction, The Book of the Short Sun (1999–2001)

“They based their extrapolations on numbers. That worked as long as money, which is easily measured numerically, was the principle motivating force in human affairs. But as time progressed, human actions became responsive instead to a multitude of incommensurable vectors.”

Gene Wolfe buch Storeys from the Old Hotel

"The Marvelous Brass Chessplaying Automaton", Universe 7 (1977), ed. Terry Carr, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Storeys from the Old Hotel (1988), Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, The Best of Gene Wolfe (2009)
Fiction

“People who wish to be lost always get their way.”

Gene Wolfe buch Innocents Aboard

"The Sailor Who Sailed After the Sun", Grails, Quests, Visitations, and Other Occurrences (1992), ed. Richard Gilliam, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Edward E. Kramer, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Innocents Aboard (2004)
Fiction

“When we're young, we notice things that are young, like ourselves. New grass on old graves. New leaves on old trees”

Volume 3: Caldé of the Long Sun (1994), Ch. 1
Fiction, The Book of the Long Sun (1993–1996)

“No man has a home unless he is master of a place where he must please no one—a place where he can go and lock the door behind him.”

Gene Wolfe buch Storeys from the Old Hotel

"Slaves of Silver", Galaxy, 1971, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Storeys from the Old Hotel (1988)
Fiction

“Be careful about extending credit, too, and doubly careful about refusing to extend it.”

Volume 1, Ch. 1
Fiction, The Book of the Short Sun (1999–2001)

“Almost any interesting work of art comes close to saying the opposite of what it really says.”

"What I Know About Writing (in no particular order)", as quoted in Michael Swanwick, "The Wolf in the Labyrinth", Fantasy & Science Fiction, April 2007
Nonfiction

“Most Christians know next to nothing about the life and teachings of Christ and are afraid to learn, sensing that the knowledge will upset their preconceptions.”

"Sun of Helioscope", in Castle of the Otter (1982), Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Castle of Days (1992)
Nonfiction

“Here in two flat sentences are the best things I can say about our field on American television: Dr. Who is sometimes aired. Sometimes Battlestar Galactica is not.”

Guest of Honor speech at Aussiecon Two (August 1985), as published in Castle of Days (1992)
Nonfiction

“I was the core of the universe, as we always are to ourselves.”

Quelle: Fiction, The Book of the New Sun (1980–1983), The Urth of the New Sun (1987), Chapter 6, "A Death and the Dark" (p. 38)

“When neither our fellows nor our gods spoil our plans, we spoil them ourselves.”

Volume 4, Ch. 15
Fiction, The Book of the Long Sun (1993–1996)

“As you intend to live hereafter, it is in your power to live here.”

Volume 2: Lake of the Long Sun (1994), Ch. 1
Fiction, The Book of the Long Sun (1993–1996)

“What is perceived is dictated by the instrument. If you had other eyes, or another mind, you would see all things otherwise.”

Quelle: Fiction, The Book of the New Sun (1980–1983), The Urth of the New Sun (1987), Chapter 40, "The Brook Beyond Briah" (p. 285)

“The most trivial skirmish is not trivial to those who die in it, and so should not be trivial in any ultimate sense to us.”

Quelle: Fiction, The Book of the New Sun (1980–1983), The Urth of the New Sun (1987), Chapter 13, "The Battles" (p. 95)

“It is well not to spend one's symbols improvidently.”

Volume 1, Ch. 9
Fiction, The Book of the Short Sun (1999–2001)

“I have never in my whole life had a fight with a smart person or even seen anybody else have one either. That is because when the fight starts the smart people are not there anymore. They have gone off someplace else, and when it is over they come back and tell you how much they did in the fight, only it is all lies.”

Gene Wolfe buch Starwater Strains

"Has Anybody Seen Junie Moon?", Moon Shots (1999), ed. Peter Crowther, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Starwater Strains (2005), Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, The Best of Gene Wolfe (2009)
Fiction

“It’s easy—very easy—to slay a ruler. But it’s very difficult to prevent a worse one from coming to his place.”

Quelle: Fiction, The Book of the New Sun (1980–1983), The Urth of the New Sun (1987), Chapter 39, "The Claw of the Conciliator Again" (p. 278)

“Until we reach the end of time, we don’t know whether something’s been good or bad; we can only judge the intentions of those who acted.”

Quelle: Fiction, The Book of the New Sun (1980–1983), The Urth of the New Sun (1987), Chapter 33, "Aboard the Alcyone" (p. 237)

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