Whorl

RETURN TO THE WHORL by Gene Wolfe: The faint, blinking star that old people call the Whorl is fainter than ever.

The Best Endings in Science Fiction

Even though this extension may be used, all types of whorls are grouped together under the general classification of "Whorl" and are designated by the letter

The Science of Fingerprints Classification and Uses

Like with the Reality Whorl, it started with a sequence I had in a dream, and I thought it would be neat as a story, so I wrote it.

FINALLY

Unfortunately, it didn't come to me as wholly as Reality Whorl had.

FINALLY

Gene Wolfe's Book of the Short Sun (On Blue's Waters, In Green's Jungles, Return to the Whorl) centers around the puzzle of the narrator's identity, and there are parts of the book where just getting to see the narrator/protagonist would be a major spoiler.

Unfilmable Science Fiction Novels

My short story “Verses on St. Andrews” appears in Spinning Whorl #3.

TLC May Sci Fi Channel Essential Book; SFRevu; A Self-Pimp Thread « Whatever

My short story “Verses on St. Andrews” appears in Spinning Whorl #3.

TLC May Sci Fi Channel Essential Book; SFRevu; A Self-Pimp Thread « Whatever

Granted, Spinning Whorl does not publish novels, but I think it's a fair bet that if you have to withdraw your manuscript from an editor's slush pile because it's accepted elsewhere, they probably won't miss it.

Talk about Raw Suckage!

I recently switched Spinning Whorl magazine probably what don would call a bottom-of-the-list market, but anyway... to accepting simultaneous submissions.

Talk about Raw Suckage!

With the recent release of Return to the Whorl, volume three of The Book of the Short Sun, I decided it was finally time to go back to the start of The Book of the New Sun and read through all twelve *Sun books.

Curse you, Gene Wolfe!