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Gene Wolfe byl americký spisovatel, jeden z nejproslulejších autorů science fiction. Narodil se v New Yorku a vyrůstal v texaském Houstonu.

Jeho kniha The Sword of the Lictor získala v roce 1983 cenu Locus a cenu Augusta Derletha. Wikipedia  

✵ 7. květen 1931 – 14. duben 2019  •  Další jména جین وولف
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“It doesn't move because he has fastened it in place until he finds out why it doesn't move.”

Gene Wolfe

Fiction, "The Fifth Head of Cerberus", Orbit 10 (1972)

“Time passed, slipping through the waist of the universe's great hourglass like the eroded soil of this continent slipping down her rivers to the seas.”

Gene Wolfe kniha The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories

"Seven American Nights", Orbit 20 (1978), ed. Damon Knight, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories (1980), Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, The Best of Gene Wolfe (2009)
Fiction

“The gods smile on us, my son, or so it is written. It's a wonder they don't laugh aloud.”

Gene Wolfe

Volume 1, Ch. 2
Fiction, The Book of the Long Sun (1993–1996)

““I pledged myself to show you wonders.”
I drew her farther from the building. “I’m not ready to see wonders. Yours, or any other woman’s.””

Gene Wolfe

Zdroj: Fiction, The Book of the New Sun (1980–1983), The Urth of the New Sun (1987), Chapter 19, "Silence" (p. 132)

“The jokes of the gods are long in the telling.”

Gene Wolfe

Volume 3, Ch. 1
Fiction, The Book of the Long Sun (1993–1996)

“An exaggerated and solemn respect always indicates a loss of faith.”

Gene Wolfe kniha The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories

"Seven American Nights", Orbit 20 (1978), ed. Damon Knight, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories (1980), Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, The Best of Gene Wolfe (2009)
Fiction

“A hundred wise men have said in various ways that love transcends the power of death, and millions of fools have supposed that they meant nothing by it. At this late hour in my life I have learned what they meant. They meant that love transcends death. They are correct.”

Gene Wolfe

"Bed and Breakfast", Dante's Disciples (1995), ed. Edward E. Kramer, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Strange Travelers (2000), Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, The Best of Gene Wolfe (2009)
Fiction

“Prince of parable, I desire to see those gardens of lasting delight which Allah—the Creator! the Ever Beneficent!—reserves for the faithful. How am I to do so if I tell lies?”

Gene Wolfe

"By lying to Allah, I suppose."
"The Tale of the Rose and the Nightingale (and What Came of It)", Arabesques (1988), ed. Susan Schwartz. Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Endangered Species (1989)
Fiction

“I pledged myself to show you wonders.”

Gene Wolfe

I drew her farther from the building. “I’m not ready to see wonders. Yours, or any other woman’s.”
Zdroj: Fiction, The Book of the New Sun (1980–1983), The Urth of the New Sun (1987), Chapter 19, "Silence" (p. 132)

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