The Unreliable Narrators
Brent and Amanda discuss the brilliance of Gene Wolfe’s work: his short stories, his poetry, and his letters. We are interested in the extended Wolfe Universe, which is probably this one, but maybe not. The constellations are many, let us tell the stories of the stars.
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Episodes
Monday Dec 15, 2025
Monday Dec 15, 2025
In which the Unreliable Narrators discuss Mountains Like Mice. First published in Worlds of If, 1966 and also collected in Young Wolfe in 1992, and The Wolfe at the Door in 2023.
Monday Dec 01, 2025
Monday Dec 01, 2025
In which the Unreliable Narrators discuss Mountains Like Mice. First published in Worlds of If, 1966 and also collected in Young Wolfe in 1992, and The Wolfe at the Door in 2023.
Monday Nov 10, 2025
Monday Nov 10, 2025
In which the Unreliable Narrators discuss Gene Wolfe's essay "Breakthrough".
(1987) Breakthrough, Frontier Crossings, ed. Robert Jackson, 1987. Publisher: Science Fiction Conventions Ltd.
A Souvenir of the 45th World Science Fiction Convention.
Monday Oct 13, 2025
Monday Oct 13, 2025
In which the Unreliable Narrators discuss Gene Wolfe's short story "A Cabin on the Coast" collected in Endangered Species and The Best of Gene Wolfe.
Monday Sep 29, 2025
Monday Sep 29, 2025
In which the Unreliable Narrators discuss their visit to WorldCon 2025 in Seattle.
Monday Aug 25, 2025
Monday Aug 25, 2025
In which the Unreliable Narrators discuss Gene Wolfe's short story "Wolfer." First Published in the anthology Wild Women and later collected in Innocents Aboard.
Monday Jul 28, 2025
Monday Jul 28, 2025
In which the Unreliable Narrators discuss Achilles in Vietnam by Jonathan Shay and the connections between combat trauma and Gene Wolfe's work.
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Monday Jun 30, 2025
Monday Jun 30, 2025
In which the Unreliable Narrators discuss Gene Wolfe's short story Straw, first published in Galaxy in 1975 and collected in Storeys from the Old Hotel and The Best of Gene Wolfe.
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Monday Jun 02, 2025
Monday Jun 02, 2025
In which the Unreliable Narrators discuss "The Flag" first published in 1988's Storeys from the Old Hotel.
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Monday Apr 21, 2025
Monday Apr 21, 2025
In which the Unreliable Narrators discuss their own and others' obsession with collecting books.
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The Unreliable Narrators
Once upon a time Brent showed up at Amanda's house carrying a tattered paperback with a shirtless masked man on the cover. "It's better than it looks. I swear!" He said. Three weeks without binocular vision (he had been wearing a fetching eyepatch due a tragic fencing accident [barbed wire fence, not swordplay]) had left him a bit loopy though delighted by a pirated audiobook of The Shadow of the Torturer. The rest is history. The book really was better than it looked and a decade and a half later Amanda and Brent are buried in stacks of old magazines, anthologies, and print offs from interlibrary loans (real ones, not sequels to The Borrowed Man) happily talking about Gene Wolfe and all the sane and insane implications of his worlds.
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