Ultan's Library

a journal for the study of Gene Wolfe	Editors: Jonathan Laidlow & Nigel Price
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Articles
New: Michael Andre-Driussi - Lions and Tigers and Bears . . . of the New Sun (dec 03) Robert Borski - Desanctifying Victor Trenchard: some notes on Peter Wright's "Confounding the Skin and the Mask" Peter Wright - Confounding the Skin and the Mask: Gene Wolfe’s The Fifth Head of Cerberus and the Politics of Ambiguity Jeremy Crampton - Torture and confession in Wolfe's Book of the New Sun Nick Gevers - Five Steps Towards Briah: Gene Wolfe's The Book of the Long Sun (summer 2000) Nick Gevers - The Reader as Augur: Beginnings and Endings in Gene Wolfe's The Book of the Long Sun (summer 2000) Jeremy Crampton - Some Greek Themes in Gene Wolfe's Latro novels (summer 2000)
Reviews
The Book of the New Sun reviewed by Peter Wright On Blue's Waters reviewed by Nigel Price Strange Travelers reviewed by Michael Andre-Driussi The Fifth Head of Cerberus reviewed by Robert Borski
Reference Materials New: Uncollected Short Fiction by Gene Wolfe - a checklist-in-progress Secondary Bibliography - a working bibliography of critical material on Gene Wolfe About the Contributors - further details of our writers Sundry Other Matters: Details of the Gene Wolfe Symposium held at the University of Birmingham in 2000.(original call for papers) Links to other Gene Wolfe and Science Fiction websites and resources Contact the editors: J.M.Laidlow@bham.ac.uk
Ultan's Library is protected under the copyright laws of the United Kingdom and the Universal Copyright Convention. The copyright to the journal is held by the editors Jonathan Laidlow and Nigel Price. Copyright of the individual articles and reviews remains with their individual authors. Publication (print or electronic) or commercial use of any of the copyrighted materials without direct authorization from the copyright holder is strictly prohibited. The copying of materials from Ultan's Library is permitted only under the fair-use provisions of copyright law. All views expressed in articles in this journal are the views of the articles' authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the editors. Ultan's Library 2000-2002.

News & other off-site Wolfeana

Ultan contributor Robert Borski has just published a book length study of Gene Wolfe, Solar Labyrinth: Exploring Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun. See below for our Amazon UK Affiliate link
SFRevu has an interview and review of the Knight
infinityplus is doing a feature on GW to mark the launch of the Knight
Map of the Whorl
Gene Wolfe's story 'Under Hill' is available online at the Infinite Matrix
Gene Wolfe's story 'The Castaway' is available online at Scifi.com
His story 'Copperhead' is also available online at Scifi.com
Gene Wolfe and Neil Gaiman chat in the latest issue of Locus: extracts available online
Ultan contributor Dr Nick Gevers interviewed Gene Wolfe for SFSite
Wolfe's essay on Tolkien, "The Best Introduction to the Mountains" now available online

Robert Borski's new book, Solar Labyrinth :

Available now: Attending Daedalus: Gene Wolfe, Artiface and the Reader, Peter Wright's long awaited study of Gene Wolfe's fiction. Below are Ultan's associate links to Amazon UK:

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