An Evil Guest
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award nominee 2009, Locus Award nominee 2009.
Lovecraft mets Blade Runner. This is a stand-alone supernatural horror
novel with a 30s noir atmosphere. Gene Wolfe can write in whatever
genre he wants – and always with superb style and profound depth. Now
following his World Fantasy Award winner, Soldier of Sidon, and his stunning Pirate Freedom, Wolfe turns to the tradition of H. P. Lovecraft and the weird science tale of supernatural horror.
Set a hundred years in the future, An Evil Guest is a story of an actress who becomes the lover of both a mysterious
sorcerer and private detective, and an even more mysterious and
powerful rich man, who has been to the human colony on an alien planet
and learned strange things there. Her loyalties are divided – perhaps
she loves them both. The detective helps her to release her inner
beauty and become a star overnight. And the rich man is the benefactor
of a play she stars in. But something is very wrong. Money can be an
evil guest, but there are other evils. As Lovecraft said, "That is not
dead which can eternal lie."
Gene Wolfe
Gene Rodman Wolfe (1931-2019) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He was noted for his dense, allusive prose as well as the strong influence of his Catholic faith. He was a prolific short-story writer and novelist and won many science fiction and fantasy literary awards.
Wolfe is best known for his Book of the New Sun series (four volumes, 1980–83), the first part of his "Solar Cycle". In 1998, Locus magazine ranked it the third-best fantasy novel published before 1990 based on a poll of subscribers that considered it and several other series as single entries.
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