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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 the genius that later flourished in such acclaimed works as The Fifth Head of Cerberus and The Book of The New Sun.
Originally published in 1975, Peace is a spellbinding, brilliant tour de force of the imagination. The melancholy memoir of Alden Dennis Weer, an embittered old man living out his last days in a small midwestern town, the novel reveals a miraculous dimension as the narrative unfolds. For Weer's imagination has the power to obliterate time and reshape reality, transcending even death itself. Powerfully moving and uncompromisingly honest, Peace ranks alongside the finest literary works of our time.
Book Details
- Publisher: Orb Books
- Publish Date: Dec 11st, 2012
- Pages: 320
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.20in - 5.51in - 0.83in - 0.60lb
- EAN: 9780765334565
- Categories: • Science Fiction - General• Fantasy - Contemporary
About the Author
Gene Wolfe (1931-2019) was the Nebula Award-winning author of The Book of the New Sun tetralogy in the Solar Cycle, as well as the World Fantasy Award winners The Shadow of the Torturer and Soldier of Sidon. He was also a prolific writer of distinguished short fiction, which has been collected in such award-winning volumes as Storeys from the Old Hotel and The Best of Gene Wolfe.
A recipient of the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, the Edward E. Smith Memorial Award, and six Locus Awards, among many other honors, Wolfe was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2007, and named Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2012.
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What people are saying
Non-Binary writer. The Ceaseless Watchers favorite. Best Cat Dad. In the Gay Bag. Chef. College student?? They/He.
@TheLitCritGuy Manhunt was so goddamn good. I've been meaning to give Gene Wolfe a second try. I have his book, Peace, on my shelf.
writer and journeyman labourer. he/him #landback
@CorgiHell Gene Wolfe’s first novel, Peace, is one of the best things I’ve ever read, immediately easily became a top 5, maybe top 3 novel, rewired my fucking brain and has brought me back for rereadings in short succession (tho in fairness, like most Wolfe, it’s meant to be reread)
Support your loco author! Handcrafted books of peculiar quality. Author of Darkish Christian fantasy series, The Remnant King Saga. Not a dragon. No, not at all
Fellow #Writers What do you consider the best opening paragraph for a novel. It has to be prose, and can't be dialogue. Post an excerpt if possible My favourite is the opening to "Peace" by Gene Wolfe, which has some wonderful imagery from the off #writingq #WritingCommunity https://t.co/2qhYk8AXPy
Praise for this book
"A tricky, evil, deep, and remarkable novel by one of America's finest writers.... It is not merely one of my favorite books (although it is certainly that); it is one of a tiny handful of modern novels of which I am in awe." --Neil Gaiman, author of SANDMAN
"This delicate, insubstantial web of Alden Dennis Weer's memoirs acquires a solidity and a timelessness which may well make it one of Wolfe's most remarkable works." --SF Site
"[Gene Wolfe's] first fantasy novel, Peace, may be his finest." --The Encyclopedia of Fantasy
"Gene Wolfe is the finest writer the science fiction world has yet produced." --The Washington Post on Gene Wolfe
"Gene Wolfe is unique. If there were forty or fifty of this first-rate author--no, let's be reasonable and ask Higher Authorities for only four or five--American literature as a whole would be enormously enriched." --Chicago Sun-Times
What people are saying
Non-Binary writer. The Ceaseless Watchers favorite. Best Cat Dad. In the Gay Bag. Chef. College student?? They/He.
@TheLitCritGuy Manhunt was so goddamn good. I've been meaning to give Gene Wolfe a second try. I have his book, Peace, on my shelf.
writer and journeyman labourer. he/him #landback
@CorgiHell Gene Wolfe’s first novel, Peace, is one of the best things I’ve ever read, immediately easily became a top 5, maybe top 3 novel, rewired my fucking brain and has brought me back for rereadings in short succession (tho in fairness, like most Wolfe, it’s meant to be reread)