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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 3h

Alfred Bester sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/bester... died on this day, so here are some of his book covers (Artist: Adrian Chesterman, Richard Powers, [couldn't identify] and Richard Powers):

A cover for Alfred Bester's "Tiger! Tiger!"

A cover for Alfred Bester's "Star Light, Star Bright"

A cover for Alfred Bester's "Феномен исчезновения"

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lilya @lolifer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Book of the new sun in dungeon crawler Carl font

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Future Revisitations @futurerevisited.bsky.social · 10h

Another welcome acquisition. The quirky irony of the title has always raised a smile - no wonder it’s been lodged in the memory for years. Read the title story today - and then happily reread, knowing I’d missed a few things first time around… And of course, it’s all beautifully written. #booksky

Copy of the Orb Paperback edition of the Gene Wolfe collection ‘The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories’.

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Alice Snakewitch @alicesnakewitch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

(after being brought deep into the forest and sharing a meal with my larger than life captors and compatriots) you know a fun fact about gene wolfe is that i'm the guy who invented pringles

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Tom Shapira @tomshaps.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories [sic] by Gene Wolfe He has this thing in which the story goes on and on until the very last bit before bothering to explain what's it all about. Which is either charming or annoying, depending on the story and my disposition.

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Antonio Garber @antgarber.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hablamos de Gene Wolfe y La quinta cabeza de Cerbero en Onda Regional. Una novela extraña, literaria, gratificante de leer y releer, de un autor injustamente olvidado en España. También es un rompecabezas, un juego, un libro mucho más grande que el envoltorio. www.orm.es/la-hora-de-l...

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Antonio Garber nos descubre la obra de Gene Wolfe

Autor de culto, referencia imprescindible para algunos de los más famosos escritores de ciencia ficción, Wolfe nos legó una obra literaria de enorme interés y la máquina que da forma a las patatas Pri...

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Gromb @gromb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If you’re tired of the Standard Fantasy setting of d&d you can make your crazy Morrowind-BotNS-Caves of Qud setting where everyone is a walking plant that rides around on giant crabs OR you can read about the real medieval period, which was a very strange place, and put that in your game.

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Tyler Welty @tylerwelty.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Swordtember 27: Lily The Nenuphars of the River Gyoll (Taking some artistic liberties with BotNS symbology) #swordtember #lily #waterlillies #terminusest #thebookofthenewsun #nenuphar #severian #genewolfe #wolfe

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🍅🥔🫐🌽 hoopy frood 🌶️ 🥑🍫🌵 @huwupy.kawaii.social · 28/09/2026

“80s anime botns” is a fun vibe to think about

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grouse @buddygrouse.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

refining my severian

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Big Iron @big-iron.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Gene Wolfe and Clint Eastwood are (rightly) popular answers, and correct, but I also have to say Harold Bloom and Frank Zappa

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Lolo García @sirlolovanhalen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

El primer volumen del Libro del Sol Nuevo de Gene Wolfe. Ya tenía ganas de hincarle el diente y pese a ciertas exigencias de su lectura y un misterio intrincado y constante, me ha atrapado bastante. Tanto es así que ya me he puesto con el siguiente. Aquí aguantamos hasta el final, Severian!

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The Shadow of the Torturer

The Shadow of the Torturer is the first volume in the f…

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Mario Amadas @marioamadas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

...things weaker than our words for them. Gene Wolfe: 'The Shadow of the Torturer'

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Executive Koala @executivekoala.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

86. The Citadel of the Autarch (1983, Novel) I'll get to Urth at some later point, but for now, this is my end. And what an ending! As just a book it is kind of bizarrely structured, but who cares, that first part owns. I was sold on BotNS as "Xenogears before Xenogears" and boy did it deliver

Original cover for Gene Wolfe's "The Citadel of the Autarch" showing Severian riding on a destrier into battle

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Andy @theandychrist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Reading Citadel of the Autarch and it really feels like this has moved from a standard "war hospital" story to feeling very similar to the opening of Berserk. This series has been all over the place. And I think that's what has kept me so glued to it.

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Nora Blake @skulldaughter.exportaud.io · 13/09/2026

the amano cover for the japanese release of claw of the conciliator has maybe the most moe severian i've seen yet

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Jacob @jakeloser.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

you guys wanna see my fantasy football profile pic and team name this year: Book of the New Sun God

cover art for Claw of the Conciliator, vol 2 in Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun series; but I added Amon-Ra St. Brown's face over Severian's face and a football over the claw that he's holding.

(ARSB's nickname is the "Sun God")

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Lex Joy @aeneas-nin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Reading Sword of the Lictor now. Quite fun to run into a minor character who is basically Evil Zaphod Beeblebrox.

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Future Revisitations @futurerevisited.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Finished Wolfe’s ‘The Sword of the Lictor’ today. Captivating and satisfyingly unpredictable, in a way that sometimes brought to mind what someone once described as the ‘unhinged theatrical nightmare’ of John Boorman’s splendid ‘Zardoz’. And yes, I’m a long term admirer of the latter too 🙂 #booksky

Copies of the two Gollancz SF Masterworks volumes which together make up the original quartet of novels in Gene Wolfe’s ‘The Book of the New Sun’ series.

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Patrick Halston @patrickhalston.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

1985 "Interview of Gene Wolfe" substack.com/@patrickmcev...

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1985 "Interview of Gene Wolfe"

Procris and the Unicorn.

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muck (mercurial) @skmdy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

who the fuck is this guy

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muck (mercurial) @skmdy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

ok took me nine months but i'm done. book of the new sun will return... oh it does make my mind race

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The Rereading Wolfe Podcast | 重读沃尔夫播客 @rereadingwolfe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

These contain the first translation of the Shadow of the Torturer in Polish.

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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Artist Jack Gaughan sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/gaugha... was born on this day, so here's some of his cover artwork from 1963:

Jack Gaughan's cover for "The Dragon Masters" by Jack Vance

Jack Gaughan's cover artwork for "Slave Planet" by Laurence M. Janifer

Jack Gaughan's cover for "Captives of the Flame" by Samuel R. Delany

Jack Gaughan's cover artwork for "The Rebellers" by Jane Roberts

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kungsluk kungsluk @botulist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

gene wolfe stories must be about either: cannibalism, weird anti-modernist gripes, the universality of the christ, or large women. if it is about more than one of these things, what you have is actually a gene wolfe novel

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APFFL @apersonfromflorida.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Did a little book haul today in anticipation for the temperatures dropping this weekend 🍂 (it will get hot again on monday) #booksky

Four books against a black textured background. The books in the image are:
- The Fort Bragg Cartel by Seth Harp
- How the Mountains Grew by John Dvorak
- Shadow & Claw by Gene Wolfe
- The Man With No Shadow by Bonnie Quinn

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Phil Christman @philipchristman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

man, I love telling students who Gene Wolfe was and how he helped invent Pringles and then showing them what he looked like

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Chris B @cjosephbea.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

been reading Gene Wolfe and feeling a strange compulsion to add Pringles to my grocery list

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please be nice to patrick @nicetopatrick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My favorite wiki nugget is gene wolfe spent most of his career years in an exurb of Chicago and then Peoria its like the last place I expected to see in his bio lmao

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M•LINDER•M•F•COS•NVNQVAM•FECIT @felix2052.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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Marina Golondrina 🇵🇸 🐝🗡️🗝️ @marinagolondrina.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A mi me gusta imaginarme a Gene Wolfe riéndose un poco cada vez que escribía estas cosas XD

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Pengoblin @pengoblin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Vielleicht ist das bereits ein Omen für meine Zukunft gewesen. Deshalb beginne ich diesen Bericht mit den Nachwirkungen unseres Bades im Fluss, bei dem ich, der Folterlehrling Severian, beinahe ertrunken wäre. Gene Wolfe, Das Buch der neuen Sonne (1980ff.) #buchbeginn

Zwei schwarzgelbweiße Bücher auf einer Wolldecke. Beide zeigen eine verhüllte Gestalt mit Umhang und Kapuze, dem Betrachter zugewandt, den Kopf gesenkt, sich auf ein Schwert stützend. Hinter der Figur eine Sonnenscheibe.

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The Rereading Wolfe Podcast | 重读沃尔夫播客 @rereadingwolfe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

TBH I'm positive Severian never forgets anything that's WHY he makes mistakes in memory.

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Hyperlexic @hyperlexic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

i needed this to get through and there’s a lot of new words in it…

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A man of few words @nuthinbut.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Gene Wolfe in BOTNS has a universe that is believed to have been preceded by an effectively infinite sequence of universes and concludes that God, as absolute / infinite remains invisible, unknowable, uncertain; but arbitrarily powerful servants of his must perforce exist, how could they not.

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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

we need to return to sci-fi book covers being little people in the foreground with immense looming wonders in the background

the cover for The Last Legends of Earth, which shows people fishing in a hamlet of thatch-roof catches while vast sci-fi pylons loom in the background

the cover of Shadow of the Torturer which shows Severian walking away from a city of spires

some art by Eddie Jones that shows people getting out of a UFO and walking towards a massive gate, beyond which is a blood red moon

tiny figures in the foreground observe a giant woman sleeping in a lake of blood

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