Gene Wolfe

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  • Bibliography:
    60 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 1972
  • Latest Book:
    November 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Book of the Long Sun

1 - Nightside the Long Sun (Dec-1993)
2 - Lake of the Long Sun (Jan-1994)
3 - Calde of the Long Sun (Sep-1994)
4 - Exodus from the Long Sun (Aug-1997)
Litany of the Long Sun (Jan-1994)

Book of the New Sun

1 - Shadow of the Torturer (May-1980)
2 - Claw of the Conciliator (Feb-1982)
3 - The Sword of the Lictor (Dec-1982)
4 - The Citadel of the Autarch (Nov-1983)

Book of the Short Sun

1 - On Blue's Waters (Oct-1999)
2 - In Green's Jungles (Aug-2000)
3 - Return to the Whorl (Feb-2001)

Latro

1 - Soldier of the Mist (Nov-1986)
2 - Soldier of Arete (1989)
3 - Soldier of Sidon (Oct-2006)

The Wizard Knight

1 - The Knight (Jan-2004)
2 - The Wizard (Nov-2004)

Book List in Order: 60 titles

  • The Fifth Head of Cerberus

    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 i...

  • Morning-Glory

    in Alchemy & Academe

    ENTER THE WORLD OF TRANSMUTATIONS -- MENTAL AND ELEMENTAL, ALCHEMICAL AND ACADEMIC NIGHT AND THE LOVES OF JOE DICOSTANZO by Samuel R. Delany When a young man living in an abandoned castle discovers he has strange and wonderful powers, he's delig...

  • Shadow of the Torturer

    Book of the New Sun - 1

    The Book of the New Sun is unanimously acclaimed as Gene 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. Shadow & Claw brings togeth...

  • The Devil in a Forest

    He lives deep in the forest in the time of King Wenceslas, in a village older than record. The young man's hero-worship of the charming highwayman, Wat, is tempered by growing suspicion of Wat's cold savagery, and his fear of the sorcerous powers of ...

  • The Castle of the Otter

  • Claw of the Conciliator

    Book of the New Sun - 2

    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.

    ...

  • The Sword of the Lictor

    Book of the New Sun - 3

    Banished for the sin of mercy, Severian, one of the ancient guild of Torturers, flees from exile. In a mountain wilderness he meets the Alzabo, in whom those eaten seem to live on, adopts a son only to lose him in battle, discharges an old debt of ve...

  • The Wolfe Archipelago

    First Trade Edition Hardcover 1983 Zeizing Brothers SIGNED by Gene Wolfe Illustrated by Rick DeMarco A collection of three stories: The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories. The Death of Doctor Island. The Doctor of Death Island. One store is a N...

  • The Island of Dr. Death and Other Stories

    A superb collection of science fiction and fantasy stories, The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories is a book that transcends all genre definitions. The stories within are mined with depth charges, explosions of meaning and ill...



  • The Citadel of the Autarch

    Book of the New Sun - 4

    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.

    ...

  • Free Live Free

    "Free Live Free," said the newspaper ad, and the out-of-work detective Jim Stubb, the occultist Madame Serpentina, the salesman Ozzie Barnes, and the overweight prostitute Candy Garth are brought together to live for a time in Free's old house, a hou...

  • Soldier of the Mist

    Latro - 1

    "A marvelously fluent, evocative historical...glowing, fascinating intricate work, full of gods and ghosts and magical metamorphoses, set forth in a modern prose that agreeably captures the rhythm and spirit of the period." --Kirkus Reviews...

  • Urth of the New Sun

    The long awaited sequel to Gene Wolfe's four-volume classic, The Book of the New Sun. We return to the world of Severian, now the Autarch of Urth, as he leaves the planet on one of the huge spaceships of the alien Hierodules to travel across time an...

  • There Are Doors

    There Are Doors is the story of a man who falls in love with a goddess from an alternate universe. She flees him, but he pursues her through doorways-interdimensional gateways-to the other place, determined to sacrifice his life, if necessary, for he...

  • Soldier of Arete

    Latro - 2

    The second volume of Gene Wolfe's powerful story of Latro, a Roman mercenary who, while fighting in Greece, received a head injury that deprived him of his short-term memory. In return it gave him the ability to converse with supernatural creatures, ...

  • Seven American Nights

  • Endangered Species

    Gene Wolfe, whose tetralogy The Book of the New Sun was the most acclaimed science fiction work of the 1980s, offered his second collection of short fiction in 1990 to universal acclaim. This is a hefty volume of over 30 unforgettable stories in a va...

  • Castleview

    In the town of Castleview, Illinois, Tom Howard is murdered at the factory he manages -- on the same day that Will E. Shields and his family, newly come to Castleview, arrive with a realtor in tow to see Howard's house. From an attic window, Shields ...

  • Pandora by Holly Hollander

    The box is heavy, locked, and very old. The only clue to its contents is the name written in gold upon its lid: PANDORA.Holly Hollander, a bright teenage girl in Illinois, is understandably curious about what's inside, but when the box is opened, dea...



  • Storeys from the Old Hotel

    Hailed as "one of the literary giants of science fiction" by The Denver Post, Gene Wolfe is universally acknowledged as one of the most brilliant writers the field has ever produced. Winner of the World Fantasy Award for best fiction collection, Stor...

  • Castle of Days

    The Washington Post has called Gene Wolfe "the finest writer the science fiction world has yet produced." This volume, Castle of Days, joins together two of his rarest and most sought after works--Gene Wolfe's Book of Days and The Castle of the Otter...

  • Nightside of the Long Sun

    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 ...

  • Nightside the Long Sun

    Book of the Long Sun - 1

    Nightside the Long Sun is the beginning of the science fiction masterpiece from Gene Wolfe, Book of the Long Sun Life on the Whorl, and the struggles and triumphs of Patera Silk to satisfy the demands of the gods, will captivate readers yearning fo...

  • Lake of the Long Sun

    Book of the Long Sun - 2

    Lake of the Long Sun is the second volume in the Book of the Long Sun series from science fiction and fantasy master Gene WolfeIt is the far future, and the giant spaceship, The Whorl, has travelled for forgotten generation towards its destination. L...

  • Litany of the Long Sun

    Book of the Long Sun

    (The Book of the Long Sun #1 - #2 omnibus) Litany of the Long Sun contains the full texts of Nightside the Long Sun and Lake of the Long Sun, that together make up the first half of The Book of the Long Sun. This great work is set on a huge generatio...

  • The 5th Head of Cerberus: Three Novellas

    Back in print for the first time in more than a decade, Gene Wolfe's The Fifth Head of Cerberus is a universally acknowledged masterpiece of science fiction by one of the field's most brilliant writers.

    Far out from Earth, two sister planets...

  • Calde of the Long Sun

    Book of the Long Sun - 3

    A Nebula Award Finalist and Winner of the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel, Caldé of the Long Sun is the third volume in science fiction Grand Master Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun tetralogy.Journeying aboard the generational starship the Whorl...

  • Sword and Citadel

    The Book of the New Sun is unanimously acclaimed as Gene 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.Sword & Citadel brings toget...

  • Peace

    Hailed as "one of the literary giants of SF" by the Denver Post, Gene Wolfe has repeatedly won the field's highest honors, including the Nebula, the Hugo, and the World Fantasy awards. Peace is Gene Wolfe's first full-length novel, a work that shows ...



  • Bluesberry Jam

    in Space Opera

    Twenty original science fiction tales based on the theme of music--by such authors as Marion Zimmer Bradley, Charles de Lint, and Gene Wolfe--include the story of a singer whose ear for music helps her fight crime. Original....

  • Exodus from the Long Sun

    Book of the Long Sun - 4

    Exodus from the Long Sun concludes Gene Wolfe's masterful sci-fi epic series, the Book of the Long SunIt is the far future, and the giant spaceship, The Whorl, has traveled for forgotten generations toward its destination. Lit inside by the artifici...

  • On Blue's Waters

    Book of the Short Sun - 1

    On Blue's Waters is the start of a major new work by Gene Wolfe, the first of three volumes that comprise The Book of the Short Sun, which takes place in the years after Wolfe's four-volume Book of the Long Sun. Horn, the narrator of the earlier work...

  • Strange Travelers

    Gene Wolfe is producing the most significant body of short fiction of any living writer in the SF genre. It has been ten years since the last major Wolfe collection, so Strange Travelers contains a whole decade of achievement. Some of these stories w...

  • Such a Pretty Face

    Think all heroes have washboard abs? Think all heroines wear Size 3 Junior Petite? Think again! Come join Gene Wolfe, Elizabeth Anne Scarborough, Jane Yolen, Jody Lynn Nye, and Sharon Lee & Steve Miller, who along with nineteen other authors, introdu...

  • In Green's Jungles

    Book of the Short Sun - 2

    Gene Wolfe's In Green's Jungles is the second volume, after On Blue's Waters, of his ambitious SF trilogy, The Book of the Short Sun. It is again narrated by Horn, who has embarked on a quest from his home on the planet Blue in search of the heroic l...

  • Epiphany of the Long Sun

    The two novels combined in this omnibus (Caldé of the Long Sun and Exodus from the Long Sun) comprise the second half of Gene Wolfe's long novel, The Book of the Long Sun....

  • Return to the Whorl

    Book of the Short Sun - 3

    Gene Wolfe's Return to the Whorl is the third volume, after On Blue's Waters and In Green's Jungles, of his ambitious SF trilogy The Book of the Short Sun . . . It is again narrated by Horn, who has embarked on a quest in search of the heroic leader ...

  • From the Cradle

    in Year's Best Fantasy 3

    The door to fantastic worlds, skewed realities, and breathtaking other realms is opened wide to you once more in this third anthology of the finest short fantasy fiction to emerge over the past year, compiled by acclaimed editor David G. Hartwell....

  • The Knight

    The Wizard Knight - 1

    A novel in two volumes, THE WIZARD KNIGHT is in the rare company of those works which move past the surface of fantasy and drink from the wellspring of myth. Magic swords, dragons, giants, quests, love, honor, nobility -- all the familiar features of...



  • Innocents Aboard

    Gene Wolfe may be the single best writer in fantasy and SF of his generation. From The Book of the Long Sun to The Book of the New Sun series, to his impressive short fiction oeuvre. Innocents Aboard gathers fantasy and horror stories from the last d...

  • The Wizard

    The Wizard Knight - 2

    A novel in two volumes, The Wizard Knight is in the rare company of those works which move past the surface of fantasy and drink from the wellspring of myth. Magic swords, dragons, giants, quests, love, honor, nobility-all the familiar features of fa...

  • Starwater Strains

    Gene Wolfe follows his acclaimed all-fantasy short story collection, Innocents Aboard, with a volume devoted primarily to his science fiction. The twenty-five stories here amply demonstrate his range, excellence, and mastery of the form that has trad...

  • The Personifid Project

    In the future, technology has advanced to the point that people can transfer their consciousness into artificial bodies, so-called personifids - thus living forever. Aphra discovers plans to use the personifid technology to eliminate the ability for ...

  • Soldier of Sidon

    Latro - 3

    Latro forgets everything when he sleeps. Writing down his experiences every day and reading his journal anew each morning gives him a poignantly tenuous hold on himself, but his story's hold on readers is powerful indeed. The two previous novels, com...

  • Pirate Freedom

    As a young parish priest, Father Christopher has heard many confessions, but his own tale is more astounding than any revelation he has ever encountered in the confessional . . . for Chris was once a pirate captain, hundreds of years before his birth...

  • An Evil Guest

    Lovecraft mets Blade Runner. This is a stand-alone supernatural horror novel with a 30s noir atmosphere. Gene Wolfe can write in whatever genre he wants--and always with superb style and profound depth. Now following his World Fantasy Award winner, S...

  • Donovan Sent Us

    in Other Earths

    ROBERT CHARLES WILSON * JEFF VANDERMEER STEPHEN BAXTER * THEODORA GOSS LIZ WILLIAMS * GENE WOLFE GREG VAN EEKHOUT * ALASTAIR REYNOLDS PAUL PARK * LUCIUS SHEPARD BENJAMIN ROSENBAUM Alternate history explores the many possible directions our wo...

  • The Very Best of Gene Wolfe

  • The Sorcerer's House

    In a contemporary town in the American midwest where he has no connections, Bax, an educated man recently released from prison, is staying in a motel. He writes letters to his brother and to others, including a friend still in jail, to whom he progre...



  • Innocent

    in Full Moon City

    DANGER LURKS IN THE HEART OF THE CITY . . . BUT NOT ALWAYS WHERE YOU EXPECT IT. From New York to Los Angeles to Bucharest, fifteen never-before-published tales by some of the world’s finest fantasy and horror writers celebrate the newest incarnatio...

  • Home Fires

    Gene Wolfe takes us to a future North America at once familiar and utterly strange. A young man and woman, Skip and Chelle, fall in love in college and marry, but she is enlisted in the military, there is a war on, and she must serve her tour of duty...

  • The Land Across

    An American writer of travel guides in need of a new location chooses to travel to a small and obscure Eastern European country. The moment Grafton crosses the border he is in trouble, much more than he could have imagined. His passport is taken by g...

  • A Borrowed Man

    It is perhaps a hundred years in the future, our civilization is gone, and another is in place in North America, but it retains many familiar things and structures. Although the population is now small, there is advanced technology, there are robots,...

  • The Book of the New Sun: Volume 1

    An extraordinary epic, set a million years in the future, in the time of a dying sun, when our present culture is no longer even a memory.

    Severian, a torturer''s apprentice, is exiled from his guild after falling in love with one of his p...

  • The Book of the New Sun: Volume 2

    An extraordinary epic, set a million years in the future, in the time of a dying sun, when our present culture is no longer even a memory.

    The torturer''s apprentice, Severian, exiled from his guild after falling in love with one of his pr...

  • Interlibrary Loan

    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 Hundreds of years in the future our civilization is shrunk down but we go on. There is adva...

  • Shadow & Claw

    “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 Ne...

  • The Dead Man and Other Horror Stories

    Although best known for his world-building Book of the New Sun science-fantasy saga, Gene Wolfe wrote brilliant fiction that resisted encapsulation within rigid genre categories. This volume collects twenty-eight tales spanning nearly a half century&...

  • The Dead Man and Other Stories

  • The Wolfe At The Door

    An all new collection from an American literary iconThe 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 ...

Award-Winning Books by Gene Wolfe

The Citadel of the Autarch
1984 John W. Campbell Memorial Award -- Novel
Claw of the Conciliator
1982 Locus Award -- Fantasy Novel
1982 Nebula Award -- Novel
Shadow of the Torturer
1981 World Fantasy Award -- Novel
Soldier of Sidon
2007 World Fantasy Award -- Novel
Soldier of the Mist
1987 Locus Award -- Fantasy Novel
Storeys from the Old Hotel
1989 World Fantasy Award -- Collection
The Sword of the Lictor
1983 Locus Award -- Fantasy Novel
The Very Best of Gene Wolfe
2010 World Fantasy Award -- Collection


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Gene Wolfe has published 60 books.

Gene Wolfe does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Wolfe At The Door, was published in November 2023.

The first book by Gene Wolfe, The Fifth Head of Cerberus, was published in June 1972.

Yes. Gene Wolfe has 5 series.
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