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
Jan 1, 2024
Jan 1, 2024
1 hr 4 min
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."
Dec 18, 2023
Dec 18, 2023
59 min
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.
Dec 4, 2023
Dec 4, 2023
53 min
In which the Unreliable Narrators discuss Tolkien's short story Leaf by Niggle for Gene Wolfe related purposes.
Nov 20, 2023
Nov 20, 2023
41 min
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.
Nov 6, 2023
Nov 6, 2023
48 min
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.
Oct 23, 2023
Oct 23, 2023
59 min
In which the Unreliable Narrators discuss "Rattler," which first appeared in Realms of Fantasy in 2004.
Oct 9, 2023
Oct 9, 2023
51 min
In which the Unreliable Narrators discuss "Westwind," originally appearing in Worlds of IF, 1973.
Sep 25, 2023
Sep 25, 2023
29 min
In which the Unreliable Narrators discuss "Dumpster World" which appeared in the fanzine The Alliterative Argentus, issue 5, in 2005.
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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