



No sf writer has been more highly and continually praised. In the intervening years his award-winning novels and stories have solidified his reputation both in fantasy and science fiction with a cascade of stunning achievements. Wolfe's unique blend of slightly archaic diction and ever-surprising vocabulary" (The New York Times Book Review). It has been nearly a decade since the completion of Gene Wolfe's four-volume epic The Book of the New Sun, "one of the modern masterpieces of imaginative literature – an evocation of a world so far in the future that magic and technology, poetry and science, are indistinguishable, a world heavy with time but not yet bereft of hope, a world brought to life by Mr. Nebula Award nominee 1993, Mythopoeic Fantasy Award nominee 1997.
