Reviews
“Wolfe, a celebrated science-fiction writer who died in 2019, stretched the genre’s boundaries in his rich and allusive work …
Wolfe deploys sci-fi and gothic elements—an interplanetary portal, a sentient house that builds itself—to explore the question that lies at the heart of many of his novels: What does it mean to be human and alive?”—The New Yorker
“Wolfe fans will spend a lot of time discussing this. All the best detective stories have clues buried deep in them. You need to look back and check for the ones you missed. It’s an enigmatic final note from sci-fi’s most enigmatic author.”—The Wall Street Journal
“Ambitious, imaginative, and packed with twists and turns, Interlibrary Loan is a major achievement from a legendary writer gone too soon.”—Esquire.com
“Complex and clever, this last offering from Wolfe is sure to please sci-fi readers.”—Publishers Weekly
“A winding tale… that will have readers going back looking for details they missed the first time around. This posthumous sequel to A Borrowed Man blends a hard-boiled mystery style with a sf future.”—Library Journal
Additional 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
