Gene Wolfe
Sign in to saveAmerican science fiction and fantasy writer (1931–2019)
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Gene Wolfe was an author whose work period began in 1966. He was born on May 7, 1931, and died on April 14, 2019. His bibliography includes works such as *The Book of Cthulhu*, *The Claw of the Conciliator*, *Borrowed Man*, *Damon Knight's Orbit 12*, and *The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2011*.
Wolfe is referenced by 856 other encyclopedia articles. His writings have been associated with various publications and collections. He is also the subject of a Commons category bearing his name.
Synthesized by Vinony from 19 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, Wikiquote, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 7 May 1931
- Died
- 14 April 2019
- Works
- 148
Top works
- The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2011
- The Book of Cthulhu
- Damon Knight's Orbit 12
- The claw of the conciliator
- Borrowed Man
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Group
- Origin
- Ireland
- Active from
- 1963
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 322
- Total plays
- 8,807
Gene Wolfe is SF/Fantasy author. This tag is for his audiobooks. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Gene+Wolfe">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,616x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,786x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,964x
- The american rheumatism association 1987 revised criteria for the classification of rheumatoid arthritis
· 1988 · cited 15,809x
- CheckM: assessing the quality of microbial genomes recovered from isolates, single cells, and metagenomes
· 2015 · cited 12,005x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “When a tree is very old, yet still lives, sometimes the limbs are strangely twisted.”
- “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.”
- ““That the environment should respond to human thought. That is the core of magic and the oldest dream of mankind.””
- “It will help her if she wants to be helped; if she insists on clasping her illness to her it will not.”
- “Evolution teaches us, Nicholas, that the original purpose of language was to ritualize men’s threats and curses, his spells to compel the gods; communication came later.”
- “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.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- Gene Rodman Wolfe , ( 1931-05-07 ) May 7, 1931, New York City , U.S.
- Died
- April 14, 2019 (2019-04-14) (aged 87), Peoria , Illinois , U.S.
- Occupation
- Novelist, short story writer
- Alma mater
- Texas A&M University University of Houston
- Period
- c. 1966 – 2019
- Genre
- Fantasy science fiction
- Notable works
- The Book of the New Sun Solar Cycle Soldier of Sidon
- Notable awards
- See subsection
- Spouse
- Rosemary Wolfe ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1952 ; died 2013 )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- New York City
- Place of death
- Peoria
- Occupation
- military engineer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Notable work
- The Book of the New Sun
- Field of work
- science fiction literature
- Genre
- fantasy
- Military branch
- United States Army
- Image
- Gene Wolfe, 2005.png
- Residence
- Peoria
Show 10 more facts
- date of birth
- 1931-05-07
- medical condition
- poliomyelitis
- influenced by
- H. G. Wells
- manner of death
- natural causes
- Commons category
- Gene Wolfe
- name in native language
- Gene Wolfe
- date of death
- 2019-04-14
- birth name
- Gene Rodman Wolfe
- cause of death
- heart disease
- start of work period
- 1966-00-00
Sources (15)
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Gene Rodman Wolfe (May 7, 1931 – April 14, 2019) 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. He was honored as a Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
Wolfe is best known for his Book of the New Sun series (four volumes, 1980–1983), the first part of his "Solar Cycle". In 1998, Locus magazine ranked it the third-best fantasy novel published before 1990 based on a poll of subscribers that considered it and several other series as single entries. Ursula K. Le Guin called Wolfe "our Melville".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gene Wolfe” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.