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Gene Rodman Wolfe was an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He was noted for his dense, allusive prose as well as the strong influence of his Catholic faith. He was a prolific short story writer and novelist, and won many literary awards. Wolfe has been called "the Melville of science fiction", and was honored as a Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
May 1, 1980 · April 29, 2021. "The Shadow of the Torturer" is a sci-fi story that has the feel of a fantasy world. Gene Wolf has a wonderful writing style but the story is on the strange side. Severian is an apprentice in the Torturer's Guild. Torturers carry out judicial torture and killing of the court's victims.
The Shadow of the Torturer is a fantasy novel by American writer Gene Wolfe, published by Simon & Schuster in May 1980. [2] It is the first of four volumes in The Book of the New Sun [1] which Wolfe had completed in draft before The Shadow of the Torturer was published. It relates the story of Severian, an apprentice Seeker for Truth and ...
Oct 15, 1994 · Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun is a popular recommendation in terms of non-traditional fantasy/science-fiction, and the man is well-respected by authors I respect so I figured it was time to find out why. The Shadow of the Torturer is the first book in a tetralogy and it feels like it.
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Wolfe, Gene. Entry updated 4 March 2024. Tagged: Author. (1931-2019) US author, born in New York, raised in Texas, long resident in Illinois. He served in the Korean War; his experiences there, which haunted his depictions of War over the decades of his active career, are recorded in the correspondence with his mother between 1952 and 1954 ...
Apr 28, 2019 · Gene Rodman Wolfe was born in Brooklyn on May 5, 1931, according to an obituary placed by his family. (Most biographical sources say he was born two days later.) His father was a traveling ...
