Reviews
Praise for Gene Wolfe
“Wolfe is our Melville.”—Ursula K. Le Guin
“If any writer from within genre fiction ever merited the designation Great Author, it is surely Wolfe . . .
[who] reads like Dickens, Proust, Kipling, Chesterton, Borges, and Nabokov rolled into one.”—The Washington Post Book World
“One of the literary giants of science fiction.”—The Denver Post
“Gene Wolfe is as good a writer as there is today…I feel a little bit like a musical contemporary attempting to tell people what’s good about Mozart.”—The Chicago Sun-Times
“Wolfe is sf’s greatest novelist, and overall one of America’s finest.”—The Washington Post Book World
“Wolfe is a sophisticated stylist, and has more in common with writers such as Jorge Luis Borges than almost any science fiction writer both in terms of craft and themes.”—The Boston Globe
“Quite possibly the most important writer in the sf field.”—The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
Praise for The Best of Gene Wolfe
“The Best of Gene Wolfe reflects his great versatility as a stylist, introducing me not to another side of Gene Wolfe, but to a great variety of other sides. …Wolfe stands out as a major figure in contemporary science fiction and fantasy.” —Vector
“If every contemporary sf writer bar one were to be wiped out, it’s a fair bet that Gene Wolfe would top many lists of who should be saved. …An essential addition to any sf library.” —Interzone
“Wolfe mixes pulp adventure, ghost stories, and noir with self-reference, meta-fiction, unreliable narrators, and puns. …A highly flattering career retrospective of a postmodern fabulist disguised as a mild-mannered SF writer.” —Publishers Weekly
“Wolfe is the best and smartest writer ever to write pulp science fiction and fantasy. …You need this collection of 20th Century Wolfe, and we can only hope we’ll see the 21st Century Wolfe collected before too long as well.
And yes, this one is essential.” —Jonathan Strahan
“There are all kinds of stories in this collection, from adventure to meta-fiction to SF noir. …here are so many really strong stories in the collection that anyone who loves reading, much less whether they usually enjoy speculative fiction or not, would be crazy not to check it out. Highly recommended.” —SFRevu
