Gene Wolfe bibliography

This is a list of works by Gene Wolfe, an American author of science fiction and fantasy, with a career spanning six decades.

Novels

• Operation Ares (1970)
• The Fifth Head of Cerberus (1972)
• Peace (1975)
• The Devil in a Forest (1976)
• The Book of the New Sun
  • The Shadow of the Torturer (1980) BSFA Award winner, Nebula Award nominee, 1981; Locus, WFA, and John W. Campbell Memorial Awards nominee, 1981
  • The Claw of the Conciliator (1981) Nebula and Locus Fantasy winner, 1982; Hugo and World Fantasy Awards nominated, 1982
  • The Sword of the Lictor (1982) Locus Fantasy and BFS Winner, 1983; Nebula and BSFA Awards nominee, 1982 Hugo and World Fantasy Awards nominee, 1983
  • The Citadel of the Autarch (1983) John W. Campbell award winner, Nebula and BSFA nominee, 1984; Locus Fantasy nominee, 1983
• Free Live Free (1984) BSFA nominee, 1985; Nebula nominee, 1986
• The Urth of the New Sun (1987) Hugo, Nebula, and Locus SF Awards nominee, 1988
• The Soldier series
  • Soldier of the Mist (1986) Locus Fantasy winner, WFA nominee, 1987; Nebula nominee 1988
  • Soldier of Arete (1989) Locus Fantasy and WFA nominee, 1990
  • Soldier of Sidon (2006) World Fantasy Award winner, Locus Fantasy Award nominee, 2007
• There Are Doors (1988) Locus Fantasy nominee, 1989
• Castleview (1990)
• Pandora, By Holly Hollander (1990)
• The Book of the Long Sun
  • Nightside the Long Sun (1993) Nebula nominee, 1994
  • Lake of the Long Sun (1994)
  • Caldé of the Long Sun (1994) Nebula nominee, 1996
  • Exodus From the Long Sun (1996)
• The Book of the Short Sun
  • On Blue's Waters (1999)
  • In Green's Jungles (2000) Locus SF nominee, 2001
  • Return to the Whorl (2001) Locus SF nominee, 2002
• The Wizard Knight
  • The Knight (2004) Nebula nominee, 2005
  • The Wizard (2004) Locus Fantasy and World Fantasy Award nominated, 2005
• Pirate Freedom (2007) Locus Fantasy Award nominee, 2008
• An Evil Guest (2008)
• The Sorcerer's House (2010) Locus Fantasy nominee, 2011
• Home Fires (2011)
• The Land Across (2013)
• A Borrowed Man (2015)
• Interlibrary Loan (2020, posthumous)

Story collections

• The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories (1980) (Not an error but a literary joke; the title story is "The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories". Among others, the collection also includes "The Death of Dr. Island" and "The Doctor of Death Island." "The Death of Dr. Island" won the Nebula Award for Best Novella.)
• Gene Wolfe's Book of Days (1981)
• The Wolfe Archipelago (1983), consisting of:
  • "Death of the Island Doctor" (1983)
  • "The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories" (1970)
  • "The Death of Dr. Island" (1973)
  • "The Doctor of Death Island" (1978)
• Plan(e)t Engineering (1984) (published by Boskone when Wolfe was guest of honor; contains previously uncollected short stories, a new essay on Book of the New Sun and map, several poems, and an article by Wolfe on robots from Plant Engineering magazine)
• Bibliomen (1984)
• Storeys from the Old Hotel (1988) [winner of the World Fantasy Award for best collection]
• Endangered Species (1989)
• Castle of Days (1992) (omnibus of essay collection Castle of the Otter and story collection Gene Wolfe's Book of Days, along with other essays)
• The Young Wolfe (1992)
• Strange Travelers (2000)
• Latro in the Mist (2003) – omnibus collection of Soldier of the Mist and Soldier of Arete
• Innocents Aboard (2004)
• Starwater Strains (2005)
• The Best of Gene Wolfe (2009) A specialty press edition including an additional story and an introduction by Kim Stanley Robinson was published as The Very Best of Gene Wolfe.

Short stories

• "Ain't You 'Most Done", first published in The Sandman, Book of Dreams (1996)
• "Alien Stones", first published in Orbit (1972)
• "A Cabin on the Coast", first published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (1984)
• "La Befana", first published in Galaxy Magazine (1973)
• "The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories", first published in Orbit 7 (1970)
• "Memorare", first published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (2007)
• "How the Whip Came Back", first published in Orbit 6 (1970)
• "Against the Lafayette Escadrille", first published in Again, Dangerous Visions (1972)
• "Trip, Trap", first published in Orbit (1967)
• "The Changeling", first published in Orbit [1968]
• "Paul's Treehouse", first published in Orbit 5 (1969)
• "Remembrance to Come", first published in Orbit 6 (1970)
• ""Eyebem", first published in Orbit 7 (1970)
• "A Method Bit in “B”", first published in Orbit 8 (1970)
• "Continuing Westwards", first published in Orbit 12 (1973)
• "Many Mansions", first published in Orbit 19 (1977)
• "To the Dark Tower Came", first published in Orbit 19 (1977)
• "Flash Company", first published in The Horns of Elfland (1997)
• "The HORARS of War", first published in Nova 1 (1970)
• The Cat, first published in the program book of the 1983 World Fantasy Convention
• The Map, first published in Light Years and Dark: Science Fiction and Fantasy Of and For Our Time (1984)
• "How I Lost the Second World War and Helped Turn Back the German Invasion", first published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact (May 1973)
• "The Headless Man", first published in Universe 2 (1972)
• "When I Was Ming the Merciless", first published in The Ides of Tomorrow: Original Science Fiction Tales of Horror (1976)
• "Frostfree", first published in Shadows of the New Sun: Stories in Honor of Gene Wolfe (2013)
• "A Solar Labyrinth", first published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (April 1983)
• "The Adopted Father", first published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (1980)
• "Forlesen", first published in Orbit 14 (1974)
• "An Article About Hunting", first published in Saving Worlds (1973)
• "The Death of Doctor Island", first published in Universe 3 (1973)
• "The Doctor of Death Island", first published in Immortal (1978)
• "Death of the Island Doctor", first published in The Wolfe Archipelago (1983)

Chapbooks

Wolfe published a number of short chapbooks, many published in very small quantities by Cheap Street. Some of these have been reprinted in his collections, as when Starwater Strains reprinted "Empires of Foliage and Flower".

• At the Point of Capricorn (1983)
• The Boy Who Hooked the Sun (1985)
• Empires of Foliage and Flower: A Tale From the Book of the Wonders of Urth and Sky (1987)
• The Arimaspian Legacy (1988)
• Slow Children at Play (1989)
• The Old Woman Whose Rolling Pin is the Sun (1991)
• The Case of the Vanishing Ghost (1991) The Pretentious Press
• The Grave Secret (1991) The Pretentious Press
• Talk of Mandrakes (2003)
• Christmas Inn (2005)
• Strange Birds (2006)
• Memorare (2008) (novella, first published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 2007, as a signed limited edition hardcover in 2008)

Other works

• The Castle of the Otter (1982) (a companion to The Book of the New Sun, later collected into Castle of Days)
• Letters Home (1991) (collection of letters Wolfe sent home to his mother while he was fighting in the Korean War)
• Introduction to Neil Gaiman's Sandman: Fables and Reflections
• A Walking Tour of the Shambles (with Neil Gaiman) (2002)
• Introduction to Vera Nazarian's Salt of the Air (2006)
• Shadows of the New Sun: Essays (2007)