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 Aug 12, 2024
Monday Aug 12, 2024
In which the Unreliable Narrators discuss Robert Borski's short story In the Crowded Part of Heaven.
Monday Jul 29, 2024
Monday Jul 29, 2024
In which the Unreliable Narrators discuss yet more characters from Gene Wolfe's delightful and strange Bibliomen.
Monday Jul 15, 2024
Monday Jul 15, 2024
In which the Unreliable Narrators discuss three more characters from Gene Wolfe's Bibliomen.
In case you want to read along: https://archive.org/details/bibliomen20characterswaiting/mode/2up
Monday Jul 01, 2024
Monday Jul 01, 2024
In which the Unreliable Narrators discuss Ada Palmer's sort-of short story "New Gray to Join the Olympic Five" which first appeared in Shoreline of Infinity, volume 8 & ½ - Summer of 2017.
Monday Jun 17, 2024
Monday Jun 17, 2024
In which the Unreliable Narrators discuss three more characters from Gene Wolfe's Bibliomen.
In case you want to read along: https://archive.org/details/bibliomen20characterswaiting/mode/2up
Monday Jun 03, 2024
Monday Jun 03, 2024
In which the Unreliable Narrators discuss the short story "Justice" by Dan Knight, founder of United Mythologies Press, author, recording artist, and friend of many. Justice was published in Feast of Laughter volume 3.
Chapbook of the Hedgehog Press interview with Dan Knight available HERE on AbeBooks.
Monday May 20, 2024
Monday May 20, 2024
In which the Unreliable Narrators discuss Mary Beatrice Smoot Friarly, SPV.
Monday May 06, 2024
Monday May 06, 2024
In which the Unreliable Narrators discuss the third and fourth "characters" of Gene Wolfe's Bibliomen.
In case you want to read along: https://archive.org/details/bibliomen20characterswaiting/mode/2up
Sunday Apr 21, 2024
Sunday Apr 21, 2024
In which the Unreliable Narrators discuss the short story "Filipina Baby" and try to determine whether or not it is actually by "our" Gene Wolfe. Published in 1969 in The Laurel Review.
Monday Apr 08, 2024
Monday Apr 08, 2024
In which the Unreliable Narrators discuss the foreword and first two "characters" of Gene Wolfe's Bibliomen.
In case you want to read along: https://archive.org/details/bibliomen20characterswaiting/mode/2up
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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