PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Gene Wolfe was born in New York and raised in Texas. He trained as a mechanical engineer, but began to publish short stories in the 1960s. He won a WORLD FANTASY AWARD for THE SHADOW OF THE TORTURER and a NEBULA for THE CLAW OF THE CONCILIATOR. He is a WORLD FANTASY LIFE ACHIEVEMENT winner.
Gene Wolfe is unique. If there were forty or fifty of this first-rate author--no, let's be reasonable and ask Higher Authorities for only four or five--American literature as a whole would be enormously enriched. -- Chicago Sun-Times One of the major fictional works of the decade...Wolfe's novel, with its elusiveness and its beauty, haunts one long after reading it. --Pamela Sargent A richly imaginative exploration of the nature of identity and individuality. --Malcolm Edwards, The Science Fiction Encyclopedia SF for the thinking reader..The style is highly literate and the ideas sophisticated and handled with sensitivity. -- Amazing SF One of the 100 best science fiction novels...A truly extraordinary work. One of the most cunningly wrought narratives in the whole of modern SF, a masterpiece of misdirection, subtle clues, and apparently casual revelations. --David Pringle
