The prolific science fiction and fantasy author Gene Wolfe is dead at 87.
He is probably best known for the "dying Earth" tetralogy The Book of the New Sun and the rest of the Solar Cycle, but his career spanned six decades and many award-winning and award-nominated novels, novellas and short stories.
Time itself is a thing, so it seems to me, that stands solidly like a fence of iron palings with its endless row of years; and we flow past like [the river] Gyoll, on our way to a sea from which we shall return only as rain.
