Gene Wolfe
Gene Rodman Wolfe was an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He was noted for his dense, allusive prose, his fascination with memory and the strong influence of his Catholic faith. He was a prolific short story writer and novelist who won many literary awards.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- New York City
- Educated at
- Texas A&M UniversityUniversity of HoustonLamar High School
- Awards
- 🏆 Nebula Award for Best Novel🏆 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel🏆 Prix Tour-Apollo Award🏆 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel
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Trending topics shown first"Do you know the story about the farmer who complained all his life about getting too much rain or too little, about the soil and the winds and so on? The farmer died and went to Mainframe, and was soo…"
"A trooper fights for honor ... or from loyalty. Or for loot sometimes. But he waits for pay. He will not wait without it, because when there is no fighting there is no honor to win, no flag to die for…"
"When a tree is very old, yet still lives, sometimes the limbs are strangely twisted."
"He was proud, like all lonely men. Lonely men must be proud or die."
"Time passed, slipping through the waist of the universe's great hourglass like the eroded soil of this continent slipping down her rivers to the seas."
"Of the nature of Death and the Dead we may enumerate twelve kinds. First there are those who become new gods, for whom new universes are born. Second those who praise. Third those who fight as soldier…"
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Timeline
1931
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