The Rereading Wolfe Podcast | 重读沃尔夫播客

Ralph Bakshi's Book of the New Sun

Had a dream last night that I was in charge of directing a radio version of book of the new sun and was doing the alzabo section...not to toot dream me's horn but it turned out sooooo good

The Book of the New Sun - Wikipedia

The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe

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Gift from my daughter

Denis Villeneuve's Book of the New Sun

I would watch the shit out of Sean Baker's WAR OF THE BUTTONS

But if we're allowed to raise the dead to adapt classics from after their time, Fritz Lang's BOOK OF THE NEW SUN would be incredible

As batatas Pringles na ficção de Gene Wolfe (e de quem mais podia ser?).

I can’t remember on which board this edited passage was first posted but it was beautifully done.

Movie poster for the Lucrecia Martel film Zama, featuring a colonial bureaucrat and cutlass collaged disjointedly above a palm tree

Shot from the film, featuring horsemen in an open field with palm trees

If you‘ve never seen Zama, it‘s probably the closest we’ll ever get to a Gene Wolfe film adaptation

Lucrecia Martel’s Shadow of the Torturer

Written as a single novel in four parts like Lord of the Rings.
He completed writing several drafts and even partially overhauled it before turning the first volume into the publisher.

Chotiner: You're wearing the Silmarils now. I can see them in your crown, shining with the light of the Two Trees, which can now only be found in them.
Morgoth: How was I supposed to know Ungoliant was going to—
Chotiner: You're saying you didn't direct her?
Morgoth: She attacked me, too, you know.

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From A BORROWED MAN (2015) by Gene Wolfe

"pilot-optional"

Like Severian climbing into Sidero in Urth of the New Sun

'you have no right in me!'

a panel from Chainsaw Man depicting the Shark Fiend: "this one can swim in any surface- walls, ground, you name it. He can also take a devil form for short periods of time." a humanoid figure with a huge multi-eyed shark for a head kills a room of zombies

Gene Wolfe, The Tree Is My Hat (1999)

thinking about that full page spread of twins having sex in my book of the new sun folio edition this morning. thank you gene wolfe

That's awesome. From experience, I very much get the feeling of being starstruck after multiple encounters. I wish I'd written him. It probably would have smoothed those edges.

3/ The Sailor Who Sailed After the Sun is my favorite of his long stories — I was pleased to learn from his introduction to Innocents Aboard & from later discussions with her that it is also Joan Gordon’s favorite. But he always seemed unaware of why we like it quite so much.

2/ I was often surprised at which of his stories he seemed to underrate. When people praised Tracking Song with a list of other stories he consistently passed over discussing it. And sure enough it’s the one long story in The Island of Dr Death & Other Stories & Other Stories excluded from Best Of.

1/ 7AN is an ingenious story with a wickedly complex presentation. And yes it does address contemporary issues in America in the 70s (narcotics & ecology) that he considered pertinent.

2/ There was a wall between us in that I was not a writer — and that seemed to me to be the only type of person he could strongly connect to. In that way you might well have known him better than I ever could.

1/ My interactions were limited to a few shared meals and various panels. But something Michael Swanwick’s wife said of him resonates with me: “that’s the most emotional man I’ve ever met.” He wasn’t a stereotypical Hemingway character.