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.
Episodes
Aug 3, 2026
Aug 3, 2026
1 hr 40 min
In which the Unreliable Narrators discuss the passions, the joys, the fears, the failures, and the successes of the Book Collecting hobby. Contains some terribly exciting news.
Jun 29, 2026
Jun 29, 2026
1 hr 1 min
In which the Unreliable Narrators discuss Gene Wolfe's short story "Bluesberry Jam".
Jun 1, 2026
Jun 1, 2026
59 min
In which the Unreliable Narrators discuss Gene Wolfe's Robert E. Howard homage "Six From Atlantis."
May 11, 2026
May 11, 2026
53 min
In which the Unreliable Narrators discuss Gene Wolfe's short story "Has Anyone Seen Junie Moon."
Apr 27, 2026
Apr 27, 2026
57 min
In which the Unreliable Narrators discuss Gene Wolfe's Contribution to the collection Take My Advice.
Dec 15, 2025
Dec 15, 2025
1 hr 26 sec
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.
Dec 1, 2025
Dec 1, 2025
1 hr 2 min
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.
Nov 10, 2025
Nov 10, 2025
1 hr 33 sec
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.
Oct 13, 2025
Oct 13, 2025
1 hr 7 min
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.
Sep 29, 2025
Sep 29, 2025
25 min
In which the Unreliable Narrators discuss their visit to WorldCon 2025 in Seattle.
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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