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 Feb 12, 2024
Monday Feb 12, 2024
In which the Unreliable Narrators discuss "Why Private War" a poem from the collection Now We Are Sick edited by Neil Gaiman and Stephen Jones. It also appeared in For Rosemary in 1988.
Monday Jan 29, 2024
Monday Jan 29, 2024
In which the Unreliable Narrrators continue to discuss Gene Wolfe's From the Cradle which first appeared in Shelf Life in 2002 and is also collected in Starwater Strains from 2005.
Monday Jan 15, 2024
Monday Jan 15, 2024
In which the Unreliable Narrrators discuss Gene Wolfe's From the Cradle which first appeared in Shelf Life in 2002 and is also collected in Starwater Strains from 2005.
Monday Jan 01, 2024
Monday Jan 01, 2024
In which the Unreliable Narrators discuss the collection Meditations on Middle Earth and determine the precise degree of foolishness demonstrated in rejecting Gene Wolfe's "The Best Introduction to the Mountains."
Monday Dec 18, 2023
Monday Dec 18, 2023
In which the Unreliable Narrators discuss Gene Wolfe's essay "The Best Introduction to the Mountains." an essay on Tolkien, which appeared in Interzone in 2001.
Monday Dec 04, 2023
Monday Dec 04, 2023
In which the Unreliable Narrators discuss Tolkien's short story Leaf by Niggle for Gene Wolfe related purposes.
Monday Nov 20, 2023
Monday Nov 20, 2023
In which the Unreliable Narrators discuss a letter to the editor in the fanzine Alien Critic from Gene Wolfe about his experiences as an editor of Plant Engineering.
Monday Nov 06, 2023
Monday Nov 06, 2023
In which the Unreliable Narrator's discuss Gene Wolfe's first professional sale: "The Dead Man," which appeared in Sir Magazine in 1965 and was later collected in Young Wolfe and is now available in The Dead Man and Other Horror Stories.
Monday Oct 23, 2023
Monday Oct 23, 2023
In which the Unreliable Narrators discuss "Rattler," which first appeared in Realms of Fantasy in 2004.
Monday Oct 09, 2023
Monday Oct 09, 2023
In which the Unreliable Narrators discuss "Westwind," originally appearing in Worlds of IF, 1973.
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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