Tag Archives: Gene Wolfe

Pirate Freedom by Gene Wolfe

By Jon Magne | Published: January 20, 2008
Gene Wolfe is widely known as the speculative genre’s high-brow alibi. Not even its most stubborn critics can find much to fault him with, and that’s why he’ll probably go down in history as one of his generations very finest authors. I’ve only read one book by him before (“The Wizard Knight”), but that’s of [...]
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Slightly Apocalyptic Book Awards of 2007

By Jon Magne | Published: January 3, 2008
Welcome to my own personal award ceremony where I list and honour the books I read and reviewed in 2007. Here you’ll find my list of top releases along and the awards for Best New Author, Most Disappointing Novel, Best Book Review Blog, Best Book Forum and lastly, the books I think are most likely [...]
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The Wizard Knight by Gene Wolfe

By Jon Magne | Published: November 10, 2007
It’s All Magical (even the cats, dogs and horses, too!) “If you don’t read this book, you’ll have missed out on something important and wonderful and all the cool people will laugh at you.” – Neil Gaiman (author of American Gods, Stardust, Sandman…) Indeed they will, for “The Wizard Knight” is everything that Gaiman says it is, [...]
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“I’ll nibble your legs off!”

By Jon Magne | Published: November 5, 2007
I’m a massive Monty Python fan and have probably watched the scene with “the Invincible Black Knight” in their unrivaled comedic masterpiece, “The Holy Grail”, so many times that I can just about quote the entire thing. To put if figuratively; I love it to pieces. Which makes it even more fun when the book I’m currently [...]
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