Interlibrary Loan

Name: Interlibrary Loan
Brand: Macmillan Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Gene Wolfe
ISBN: 9781250756398

Author: Gene Wolfe

Narrator: Tim Gerard Reynolds

Unabridged: 7 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Published: 06/30/2020

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

Interlibrary Loan is the brilliant follow-up to A Borrowed Man: the final work of fiction from multi-award winner and national literary treasure Gene Wolfe

Hundreds of years in the future our civilization is shrunk down but we go on. There is advanced technology, there are robots.

And there are clones.

E. A. Smithe is a borrowed person, his personality an uploaded recording of a deceased mystery writer. Smithe is a piece of property, not a legal human.

As such, Smithe can be loaned to other branches. Which he is. Along with two fellow reclones, a cookbook and romance writer, they are shipped to Polly’s Cove, where Smithe meets a little girl who wants to save her mother, a father who is dead but perhaps not.

And another E.A. Smithe… who definitely is.

A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books

About Gene Wolfe

Gene Wolfe (1931-2019) was the Nebula Award-winning author of The Book of the New Sun tetralogy in the Solar Cycle, as well as the World Fantasy Award winners The Shadow of the Torturer and Soldier of Sidon. He was also a prolific writer of distinguished short fiction, which has been collected in such award-winning volumes as Storeys from the Old Hotel and The Best of Gene Wolfe.A recipient of the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, the Edward E. Smith Memorial Award, and six Locus Awards, among many other honors, Wolfe was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2007, and named Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2012.

Reviews

Goodreads review by L.S. on November 04, 2020

Sequel to Wolfe's bizarre The Borrowed Man. Both orchestrated typical sleights of hand on my psyche. It is possible to get immersed in the surface-level narrative of a man who gets checked out from the library which is his institution of residence as a re-cloned mystery writer. Adventure ensures. Bu......more

Goodreads review by Alan on September 18, 2021

"Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization." —Mori Phelps, in Jo Walton's novel Among Others How could I not love that title, and that dust jacket? Even if Interlibrary Loan had not been Gene Wolfe's final work, published posthumously (he died in 2019), I would have had......more

Goodreads review by Michael on August 22, 2020

(Disclaimer—Gene Wolfe was a close neighbor and good friend of our family.) Steganography /stɛɡəˈnɒɡrəfɪ/ NOUN - The practice of concealing messages or information within other non-secret text or data. - Oxford English Dictionary Examples of steganography include a business letter with invisible ink......more

Goodreads review by Frank on July 06, 2020

Oh, good. Gene Wolfe left us with a mystery. This is a placeholder review because it would be a mistake to read a Wolfe novel once and then assume you a) know how you feel about it, b) understood it, c) read it thoroughly. A lot of folks see these points as reasons to trash his works, but I’m a read......more

Goodreads review by Carol on September 07, 2021

So, I’m browsing the shelves at the library and one book catches my eye: “Interlibrary Loan”. Hmm, I thought. What does this mean? That couldn’t be the name of the book, could it? It was. Then I noticed it was by Gene Wolfe, a classic science fiction writer that I’ve never read, but always meant to r......more

Quotes

Praise for Gene Wolfe

“Wolfe is our Melville.”—Ursula K. Le Guin

“If any writer from within genre fiction ever merited the designation Great Author, it is surely Wolfe . . . [who] reads like Dickens, Proust, Kipling, Chesterton, Borges, and Nabokov rolled into one.”—The Washington Post Book World

“One of the literary giants of science fiction.”—The Denver Post

“Gene Wolfe is as good a writer as there is today...I feel a little bit like a musical contemporary attempting to tell people what's good about Mozart.”—The Chicago Sun-Times

“Wolfe is sf’s greatest novelist, and overall one of America’s finest.”—The Washington Post Book World

“Wolfe is a sophisticated stylist, and has more in common with writers such as Jorge Luis Borges than almost any science fiction writer both in terms of craft and themes.”—The Boston Globe

“Quite possibly the most important writer in the sf field.”—The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

Awards

Locus Awards - Nominee