Gene Wolfe

Top v rejtinge "Luchshie knigi goda po versii SF Site". Puteshestvie gigantskogo korablja, zanjavshee mnogo soten let, zakoncheno. Obitateli Krugovorota Dlinnogo Solntsa osvaivajut dva novykh dalekikh i opasnykh mira Korotkogo Solntsa - Sinij i Zelenyj. Letopisets i knigopechatnik Biven vedet khroniku poslednikh let puteshestvija, rasskazyvaja sobstvennuju istoriju. Ego semja khorosho ustroilas na odnom iz ostrovov Sinego. No uskorjajuschijsja raspad obschestva i grjaduschij khaos ostavljajut kolonistam tolko odnu nadezhdu: najti pateru Shelka, legendarnogo lidera i dukhovnogo vozhdja, ischeznuvshego srazu posle pribytija ljudej na eti planety. Otpravivshis v dolgij i tjazhelyj put, Biven peresekaet morja i arkhipelagi, vozvraschaetsja na orbitalnyj Krugovorot, popadaet v mir inoplanetnykh vampirov-ingumov i stalkivaetsja s tainstvennymi Sosedjami - drevnimi obitateljami planet. Chem slozhnee put, tem bolshe ego vospominanija putajutsja, proshloe i nastojaschee perepletajutsja, a granitsy mezhdu lichnostjami stirajutsja. Kem zhe javljaetsja Biven na samom dele - i ne stal li on tem samym chelovekom, kotorogo otpravilsja iskat? "Povestvovanie Vulfa svetitsja - bogatoe i soblaznitelnoe, kak vsegda". - Kirkus Reviews "Vulf napominaet Vensa svoej poeticheskoj pyshnostju inoplanetnykh mirov; v prokhodjaschej cherez ves tsikl zagadke identichnosti slyshny otgoloski Borkhesa; mrachnyj i pronzitelnyj ton povestvovanija vyzyvaet assotsiatsii s Melvillom. I vse zhe, prodolzhaja svoe proizvedenie-shedevr, Vulf ostaetsja samim soboj, kak vsegda masterski vedja chitatelja cherez oslepitelnyj, novatorskij, vnushajuschij trepet labirint svoej istorii". - Ljutsius Shepard "Chitaja knigi Dzhina Vulfa, my okazyvaemsja v polozhenii Doroti v tot mig, kogda ona perestupaet porog doma i vpervye popadaet v Oz. Mir iz cherno-belogo vnezapno stanovitsja tsvetnym; on pulsiruet ottenkami, kakikh my nikogda prezhde ne videli. Na kazhdom shagu nas zhdut novye chudesa. My gotovy nemedlenno otkazatsja ot krasnykh bashmachkov, potomu chto miry, sozdavaemye Vulfom, kazhdyj raz okazyvajutsja kuda luchshe rodnogo doma". - Dzhonatan Kerroll "Dzhin Vulf - odin iz samykh terpelivykh i dotoshnykh pisatelej. On masterski izobrazhaet lichnosti geroev, potomu chto dlja etogo nuzhno ponimat ne tolko samogo cheloveka, no i ego obschestvo, mir vokrug nego i vsju sistemu ego myslej. Biven - ego velichajshij primer takogo masterstva. "Kniga Korotkogo Solntsa" - velikolepnoe prodolzhenie ego predyduschego shedevra". - Brajan Steblford "Povestvovanie Vulfa sijaet, bogato i soblaznitelno, kak vsegda". - Kirkus Reviews

Otkrojte vrata v inoj mir - zavershenie velikoj sagi "Kniga Dlinnogo Solntsa" ot mastera intellektualnoj fantastiki Dzhina Vulfa. Vpervye - dva zavershajuschikh romana epicheskoj tetralogii: "Kald Dlinnogo Solntsa" i "Proschanie s Dlinnym Solntsem". Pered vami - ne prosto fantastika, a tschatelno vystroennyj mir, gde religija, mistika, politika, tajny drevnikh tekhnologij i filosofskie razmyshlenija perepletajutsja v unikalnyj gobelen povestvovanija. Kniga, kotoruju nelzja odnoznachno otnesti k fentezi ili nauchnoj fantastike. Patera Shelk - svjaschennik, prorok i politik ponevole - prodolzhaet svoj put k Prosvetleniju, raskryvaja zagovory, stalkivajas s bogami i boginjami i prinimaja na sebja rol, k kotoroj on nikogda ne stremilsja. V etikh dvukh romanakh sudba tselogo mira - gigantskogo zvezdoleta, stavshego domom dlja soten pokolenij ljudej - visit na voloske. Dzhin Vulf skladyvaet slova tak, kak khudozhnik inkrustiruet mozaiku: tonko, bogato, mnogoslojno, s skrytymi simvolami i moschnym posylom. Ego proza - vyzov i nagrada dlja vnimatelnogo chitatelja. "Odin iz glavnykh tsiklov v zhanre nauchnoj fantastiki desjatiletija. Nastojaschij shedevr". - Publishers Weekly "Nemnogie pisateli osmelivajutsja sozdat Velikoe proizvedenie. Vulf osmelilsja i preuspel v etom". - The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction "Neizmenno vysokie tseli i dostizhenija". - The New York Times

Nominant na premiju "Nebjula", "Sfinks" i premiju almanakha Gigamesh. Istorija patera Shelka, blagochestivogo svjaschennika-avgura, chja sudba - sluzhit bogam, prepodavat detjam Svjaschennoe Pisanie i byt nastojatelem malenkogo khrama. Bogi zhe upravljajut mirom Krugovorota, gigantskogo tsilindricheskogo zvezdoleta, kotoryj provel v puteshestvii mnozhestvo pokolenij, a teper medlenno razrushaetsja. Na vnutrennej poverkhnosti, osveschennoj iskusstvennym Dlinnym Solntsem, raspolozheny goroda, lesa i ozera, a obitateli davno zabyli istinnuju prirodu svoego mira. V rezultate strannykh i udivitelnykh sobytij pater Shelk terjaet svoju tserkov, stalkivaetsja s nespravedlivostju, mestnoj prestupnostju, zagovorom obitatelej goroda s drugoj storony Solntsa i javleniem bogov. On vstrechaet tainstvennogo neznakomtsa, kotoryj mozhet okazatsja Bogom iz vneshnego mira, a vse ubezhdenija okazyvajutsja pod somneniem. Vozmozhno, chtoby najti reshenie svoikh problem, Shelku pridetsja vozglavit politicheskoe vosstanie protiv korrumpirovannogo Ajuntamento, kotorye pravjat gorodom-gosudarstvom Viron. Stat messiej Krugovorota. Pravda, emu samomu etogo sovsem ne khochetsja. "Nesmotrja na to, chto reputatsija Vulfa kak literaturno tochnogo i khitroumnogo pisatelja bolee chem zasluzhena, dannaja istorija - odna iz samykh dostupnykh, s kotoroj mozhno nachat tsenit avtora i ego sokrovischa". - Tereza Littlton "Tetralogija, napolnennaja oslepitelnymi detaljami i tajnami, s personazhami v bogatykh traditsijakh Dikkensa. Eto objazatelno nuzhno prochitat dvazhdy. Vulf vsegda bolee mnogogranen, chem vy dumaete". - New Scientist "Predlozhenie za predlozheniem, Dzhin Vulf pishet tak khorosho, kak nikto v sovremennoj nauchnoj fantastike. On peredaet atmosferu inykh vremen i mest s pomoschju smesi arkhaichnoj leksiki i futuristicheskoj nauki, kotoraja odnovremenno uspokaivaet i trevozhit". - The New York Times Book Review "Istorija, kotoraja obeschaet mnozhestvo chudes, ot Gomera sovremennosti". - The Washington Post Book World "Vozmozhno, Vulf uzhe zarekomendoval sebja v kachestve avtoritetnogo avtora nauchnoj fantastiki dlja vas. Esli net, to "Kniga Dlinnogo Solntsa", verojatno, sdelaet eto". - Chicago Sun-Times "Vysokij stil i pervoklassnoe povestvovanie". - Library Journal

The circus comes to town… and a man gets to go to the stars. A young girl on a vacation at the sea meets the man of her dreams. Who just happens to be dead. And an immortal pirate. A swordfighter pens his memoirs… and finds his pen is in fact mightier than the sword. Welcome to Gene Wolfe’s playground, a place where genres blend and a genius’s imagination straps you in for the ride of your life. The Wolfe at the Door is a brand new collection from one of America’s premier literary giants, showcasing some material never been seen before. Short stories, yes, but also poems, essays, and ephemera that gives us a window into the mind of a literary powerhouse whose world view changed generations of readers in their perception of the universe.

Premija zhurnala SF Chronicle. Premija "Italija". Finalist premij "Khjugo", "Nebjula", "Lokus", Sejun. "Solntse i Zamok" - prodolzhenie proslavlennoj tetralogii "Kniga Novogo Solntsa" Dzhina Vulfa. "Urd Novogo Solntsa" Avtarkh Severian, pravitel drevnego mira Urd, pokidaet planetu i otpravljaetsja v puteshestvie skvoz prostranstvo i vremja. On dolzhen predstat pered Sudom, na kotorom moguschestvennye ierogrammaty reshat - dostojno li chelovechestvo Novogo Solntsa ili ono dolzhno ugasnut vmeste so Starym Solntsem. "Kniga Chudes Urd i Neba" i "Istorii iz epokhi Severiana" Sborniki skazok, pritch i rasskazov, kotorye dopolnjajut tsikl. "Zamok Vydry" Sbornik esse o tom, kak Dzhin Vulf pisal svoj znamenityj tsikl romanov, kak rabotal s redaktorami, agentami, izdateljami i literaturnymi kritikami. Zdes vy najdete massu poleznykh sovetov po tvorcheskomu masterstvu i raskroete malenkie avtorskie sekrety, pozvoljajuschie uvidet istoriju Severiana po-novomu. "Prekrasnaja kontsovka i odnovremenno nachalo togo, chto, vozmozhno, javljaetsja luchshim literaturnym proizvedeniem amerikanskoj nauchnoj fantastiki, kogda-libo sozdannym - tetralogii "Kniga Novogo Solntsa". - Chicago Sun-Times "Novaja kniga Dzhina Vulfa parit, svobodno planiruet, bezhit, slovno reka, kotoraja techet iz vselennoj vo vselennuju, mezhdu zhiznju i smertju i snova zhiznju. V etom fentezi est moment boli chelovecheskogo suschestvovanija, chto pridaet vsemu vesomost videnija". - Ursula Le Guin "Magnum-opus Dzhina Vulfa "Kniga Novogo Solntsa" javljaetsja odnim iz sovremennykh shedevrov khudozhestvennoj literatury - voploscheniem mira nastolko dalekogo buduschego, chto magija i tekhnologija, poezija i nauka nerazlichimy, mira, otjagoschennogo vremenem i lishennogo nadezhdy, mira, ozhivlennogo unikalnym sochetaniem slegka arkhaichnogo stilja i postojanno udivljajuschej leksiki Vulfa". - The New York Times

"Kniga Novogo Solntsa" Dzhina Vulfa - odin iz samykh izvestnykh nauchno-fantasticheskikh tsiklov vsekh vremen. Eto dlinnyj volshebnyj roman v chetyrekh chastjakh. "Ten i Kogot" soderzhit pervye dve: "Ten palacha" i "Kogot Mirotvortsa", kotorye byli nagrazhdeny Vsemirnoj premiej fentezi i premiej "Nebjula".Severian, skromnyj uchenik palacha, blagoslovlennyj i prokljatyj darom fotograficheskoj pamjati, povestvuet o puti, veduschim ego cherez seks, predatelstva, izgnanie, ubijstva, zagovory i tajny - k vzrosleniju i vershine vlasti nad drevnim mirom Urd, ozarennym umirajuschim solntsem.Premija "Nebjula". Premija "Lokus". Vsemirnaja premija fentezi. Premija Britanskoj assotsiatsii nauchnoj fantastiki."Ten i Kogot" - pervye dve knigi proslavlennoj magicheskoj tetralogii "Knigi Novogo Solntsa"."Ten palacha" Severian - uchenik v Gildii palachej i vospitannik Ordena Vzyskujuschikh Istiny i Pokajanija v strannom dekadentskom mire Urd. Ego izgonjajut za samoe strashnoe pregreshenie v ego professii - sostradanie k zhertve. "Kogot Mirotvortsa" Severian prodolzhaet iskat svoe prednaznachenie. Svjazano li ono s drevnej relikviej, jakoby obladajuschej mificheskoj siloj? Dolzhen li Severian sygrat rol v politicheskikh intrigakh gosudarja Urd? Ili uchenika palacha zhdet inaja sudba? "Volshebnaja vesch... Proizvedenie iskusstva... Luchshaja nauchnaja fantastika, prochitannaja mnoju za dolgie gody". - Ursula Le Guin"Kniga Novogo Solntsa" pochti dusherazdirajusche khorosha, bogata i polna njuansov, kotorye projavljajutsja s kazhdym perechityvaniem. Eto shedevr Dzhina Vulfa". - Devid Lengford, kritik, desjatikratnyj laureat premii "Khjugo""Odna iz samykh ambitsioznykh rabot v fantastike dvadtsatogo veka". - Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine"Shedevr nauchnoj fantastiki, sravnimyj po znachimosti s glavnymi rabotami Tolkina i Ljuisa". - Publishers Weekly"Kniga soderzhit elementy allegorii Spensera, satiry Svifta, obschestvennoj soznatelnosti Dikkensa i mifologii Vagnera. Vulf sozdaet poistine chuzhdyj sotsium, kotoryj chitatel nachinaet oschuschat iznutri... Popav v nego, ostanovitsja uzhe nevozmozhno". - The New York Book ReviewsPerevodchik: Starkov Dmitrij

The circus comes to town… and a man gets to go to the stars. A young girl on a vacation at the sea meets the man of her dreams. Who just happens to be dead. And an immortal pirate. A swordfighter pens his memoirs… and finds his pen is in fact mightier than the sword. Welcome to Gene Wolfe’s playground, a place where genres blend and a genius’s imagination straps you in for the ride of your life. The Wolfe at the Door is a brand new collection from one of America’s premiere literary giants, showcasing some material been seen before. Short stories, yes, but also poems, essays, and ephemera that gives us a window into the mind of a literary powerhouse whose world view changed generations of readers in their perception of the universe.

Antiikin Kreikan persialaissotien aikaan sijoittuva Soturi sumussa kertoo palkkasoturi Latrosta, joka on menettänyt muistinsa taistelussa päähän saamansa iskun seurauksena.Latro muistaa vain viimeksi kuluneen vuorokauden, mutta kirjaa parantajan kehotuksesta tapahtumia papyruskääröönsä, ettei unohtaisi niitä lopullisesti. Etsiessään parannuskeinoa vammalleen Latro kulkee halki sotaa käyvän maan ja ymmärtää voivansa nähdä sellaista, mikä on muille näkymätöntä. Latron matkassa lukijalle avautuu kadonnut maailma, missä yliluonnollinen on läsnä ja kohtalo on jumalten käsissä.Gene Wolfe (1931-2019) on amerikkalainen fantasia- ja tieteiskirjailija, joka nousi maailmanmaineeseen sarjallaan Uuden auringon kirja. Moninkertaisesti palkittua sarjaa pidetään yhtenä spekulatiivisen fiktion kulmakivistä. Wolfe kirjoitti sarjalle myös kaksi jatko-osaa, ja näitä sekä roomalaisesta palkkasoturi Latrosta kertovia kirjoja pidetään hänen pääteoksinaan.

Far from Earth, two sister planets, Saint Anne and Saint Croix, circle each other in an eternal dance. It is said a race of shapeshifters once lived here, only to perish when men came. But one man believes they can still be found, somewhere in back of the beyond. In The Fifth Head of Cerberus, Gene Wolfe skillfully interweaves three bizarre tales to create a mesmerizing pattern: the harrowing account of the son of a mad genius who discovers his hideous heritage; a young man's mythic dreamquest for his darker half; and the bizarre chronicle of a scientist's nightmarish imprisonment. Like an intricate, braided knot, the pattern at last unfolds to reveal astonishing truths about this strange and savage alien landscape. With a new introduction by [name to come], author of [to come].

Premija "Lokus". Britanskaja premija fentezi. Memorialnaja premija Dzhona Kempbella. Premija "Apollo". Kitajskie premii "Galaktika" i "Tumannost". Finalist premij "Khjugo", "Nebjula", "Balrog", premii Britanskoj assotsiatsii nauchnoj fantastiki, Vsemirnoj premii fentezi. Premii zhurnala SF Chronicle i almanakha Gigamesh. "Mech i Tsitadel" - vtoraja polovina proslavlennoj magicheskoj tetralogii "Knigi Novogo Solntsa". "Mech liktora" Severian, stavshij liktorom goroda Traksa, snova narushaet svoj dolg palacha i ustraivaet pobeg zhenschine, kotoruju dolzhen byl ubit. On vynuzhden bezhat na sever Sodruzhestva, v gory, presleduemyj strazhej Traksa i chudovischami, nasylaemymi ego starymi vragami. Na severe polykhaet vojna: vojska Avtarkha srazhajutsja s armiej astsian. "Tsitadel Avtarkha" Istorija Severiana blizitsja k finalu. On otkroet istochnik sil Kogtja Mirotvortsa i poznaet prirodu Avtarkha. Severian vernetsja v Ness, v Tsitadel, k svoim uchiteljam, no uzhe v novom kachestve. Stanet li byvshij palach Novym Solntsem? "Luchshaja fantastika za poslednee stoletie". - Nil Gejman "Kniga Novogo Solntsa" pochti dusherazdirajusche khorosha, bogata i polna njuansov, kotorye projavljajutsja s kazhdym perechityvaniem. Eto shedevr Dzhina Vulfa". - Devid Lengford, kritik, desjatikratnyj laureat premii "Khjugo""Udivitelno koloritnaja i izobretatelnaja kniga... Samyj ekstraordinarnyj geroj za vsju istoriju epicheskogo fentezi". - The Washington Post "Shedevr nauchnoj fantastiki, sravnimyj po znachimosti s glavnymi rabotami Tolkina i Ljuisa". - Publishers Weekly "Kniga soderzhit elementy allegorii Spensera, satiry Svifta, obschestvennoj soznatelnosti Dikkensa i mifologii Vagnera. Vulf sozdaet poistine chuzhdyj sotsium, kotoryj chitatel nachinaet oschuschat iznutri... Popav v nego, ostanovitsja uzhe nevozmozhno". - The New York Book Reviews

Tor Essentials presents new editions of science fiction and fantasy titles of proven merit and lasting value, each volume introduced by an appropriate literary figure. Far from Earth, two sister planets, Saint Anne and Saint Croix, circle each other in an eternal dance. It is said a race of shapeshifters once lived here, only to perish when men came. But one man believes they can still be found, somewhere in back of the beyond. In The Fifth Head of Cerberus, Gene Wolfe skillfully interweaves three bizarre tales to create a mesmerizing pattern: the harrowing account of the son of a mad genius who discovers his hideous heritage; a young man's mythic dreamquest for his darker half; and the bizarre chronicle of a scientist's nightmarish imprisonment. Like an intricate, braided knot, the pattern at last unfolds to reveal astonishing truths about this strange and savage alien landscape. With a new introduction by O. Henry Award winning author Brian Evenson

Kniga Dzhina Vulfa "Pjataja golova Tserbera" javljaetsja priznannym shedevrom nauchnoj fantastiki, napisannym odnim iz samykh blestjaschikh pisatelej v etom zhanre.Daleko ot Zemli, dve planety-bliznetsa, Sent-Ann i Sen- Krua, kruzhat drug vokrug druga v vechnom tantse. Govorjat, chto kogda-to zdes zhili oborotni, no ikh rasa vymerla, kogda prishli ljudi. Pravda odin chelovek verit, chto oni skryvajutsja i ikh vse esche mozhno najti...Grandmaster nauchnoj fantastiki i fentezi Dzhin Vulf umelo perepletaet tri prichudlivye istorii, sozdavaja zavorazhivajuschij uzor: dusherazdirajuschij rasskaz o syne bezumnogo genija, kotoryj obnaruzhivaet otvratitelnoe nasledie; mificheskij poisk molodym aborigenom svoejtemnoj poloviny; prichudlivaja khronika koshmarnogo zakljuchenija uchenogo. Podobno zamyslovatomu uzlu, uzor, nakonets, raskryvaetsja, chtoby pokazat udivitelnuju istinu na fone strannogo inoplanetnogo landshafta.

Interlibrary Loan is the brilliant follow-up to A Borrowed Man: the final work of fiction from multi-award winner and national literary treasure Gene Wolfe. A 2021 Locus Award Finalist Hundreds of years in the future our civilization is shrunk down but we go on. There is advanced technology, there are robots. And there are clones. E. A. Smithe is a borrowed person, his personality an uploaded recording of a deceased mystery writer. Smithe is a piece of property, not a legal human. As such, Smithe can be loaned to other branches. Which he is. Along with two fellow reclones, a cookbook and romance writer, they are shipped to Polly's Cove, where Smithe meets a little girl who wants to save her mother, a father who is dead but perhaps not. And another E. A. Smithe... who definitely is.

"A major work of twentieth-century American literature...Wolfe creates a truly alien social order that the reader comes to experience from within...once into it, there is no stopping." ---The New York Times on The Book of the New Sun This new Tor Essentials edition of Sword & Citadel contains a new introduction by historian and novelist Ada Palmer, author of the award-winning Too Like the Lightning. Gene Wolfe has been called "the finest writer the science fiction world has yet produced" by the Washington Post. THE BOOK OF THE NEW SUN is unanimously acclaimed as Wolfe's most remarkable work, hailed as "a masterpiece of science fantasy comparable in importance to the major works of Tolkien and Lewis" by Publishers Weekly and "one of the most ambitious works of speculative fiction in the twentieth century" by the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. The Sword of the Lictor is the third volume in Wolfe's remarkable epic, chronicling the odyssey of the wandering pilgrim called Severian, driven by a powerful and unfathomable destiny, as he carries out a dark mission far from his home. The Citadel of the Autarch brings The Book of the New Sun to its harrowing conclusion, as Severian clashes in a final reckoning with the dread Autarch, fulfilling an ancient prophecy that will alter forever the realm known as Urth. "Wonderfully vivid and inventive... the most extraordinary hero in the history of the heroic epic." --The Washington Post

"A major work of twentieth-century American literature...Wolfe creates a truly alien social order that the reader comes to experience from within...once into it, there is no stopping." ---The New York Times on The Book of the New Sun This new Tor Essentials edition of Sword & Citadel contains a new introduction by historian and novelist Ada Palmer, author of the award-winning Too Like the Lightning. Gene Wolfe has been called "the finest writer the science fiction world has yet produced" by the Washington Post. THE BOOK OF THE NEW SUN is unanimously acclaimed as Wolfe's most remarkable work, hailed as "a masterpiece of science fantasy comparable in importance to the major works of Tolkien and Lewis" by Publishers Weekly and "one of the most ambitious works of speculative fiction in the twentieth century" by the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. The Sword of the Lictor is the third volume in Wolfe's remarkable epic, chronicling the odyssey of the wandering pilgrim called Severian, driven by a powerful and unfathomable destiny, as he carries out a dark mission far from his home. The Citadel of the Autarch brings The Book of the New Sun to its harrowing conclusion, as Severian clashes in a final reckoning with the dread Autarch, fulfilling an ancient prophecy that will alter forever the realm known as Urth. "Wonderfully vivid and inventive... the most extraordinary hero in the history of the heroic epic." --The Washington Post

"A major work of twentieth-century American literature...Wolfe creates a truly alien social order that the reader comes to experience from within...once into it, there is no stopping." ---The New York Times on The Book of the New Sun Gene Wolfe has been called "the finest writer the science fiction world has yet produced" by the Washington Post. THE BOOK OF THE NEW SUN is unanimously acclaimed as Wolfe's most remarkable work, hailed as "a masterpiece of science fantasy comparable in importance to the major works of Tolkien and Lewis" by Publishers Weekly and "one of the most ambitious works of speculative fiction in the twentieth century" by the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. The Shadow of the Torturer is the first volume in this four-volume epic, the tale of young Severian, an apprentice to the Guild of Torturers on the world called Urth, exiled for committing the ultimate sin of his profession- showing mercy toward his victim. The Claw of the Conciliator continues the saga of Severian, banished from his home, as he undertakes a mythic quest to discover the awesome power of an ancient relic and learn the truth about his hidden destiny. "A masterpiece...the best science fiction I've read in years " --Ursula K. Le Guin This new Tor Essentials edition of Shadow & Claw contains a new introduction by historian and novelist Ada Palmer, author of the award-winning Too Like the Lightning.