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Peace
- Author
- Gene Wolfe
- Narrator
- David Pittu
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 13 June 2026
- Run Time
- 10 hours 15 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Originally published in 1975, Peace is a spellbinding, brilliant tour de force of the imagination. The melancholy memoir of Alden Dennis Weer, an embittered old man living out his last days in a small midwestern town, the novel reveals a miraculous dimension as the narrative unfolds. For Weer’s imagination has the power to obliterate time and reshape reality, transcending even death itself.
Powerful, moving, and uncompromisingly honest, Peace ranks alongside the finest literary works of our time. Hailed as “one of the literary giants of SF” by The Denver Post, Gene Wolfe has repeatedly won the field’s highest honors, including the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy awards. Peace is Gene Wolfe’s first full-length novel, a work that shows the genius that later flourished in such acclaimed works as Home Fires and The Book of the New Sun.
Critics Review
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“A tricky, evil, deep, and remarkable novel by one of America’s finest writers…It is not merely one of my favorite books (although it is certainly that); it is one of a tiny handful of modern novels of which I am in awe.”
Neil Gaiman, author of American Gods and The Sandman
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“This delicate, insubstantial web of Alden Dennis Weer’s memoirs acquires a solidity and a timelessness which may well make it one of Wolfe’s most remarkable works.”
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Details
- Author
- Gene Wolfe
- Narrator
- David Pittu
- Duration
- 10 hours 15 minutes
- Release Date
- 13 June 2026
- ISBN
- 9798228704350
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Contemporary fantasy, Science fiction
Synopsis
Originally published in 1975, Peace is a spellbinding, brilliant tour de force of the imagination. The melancholy memoir of Alden Dennis Weer, an embittered old man living out his last days in a small midwestern town, the novel reveals a miraculous dimension as the narrative unfolds. For Weer’s imagination has the power to obliterate time and reshape reality, transcending even death itself. Powerful, moving, and uncompromisingly honest, Peace ranks alongside the finest literary works of our time. Hailed as “one of the literary giants of SF” by The Denver Post, Gene Wolfe has repeatedly won the field’s highest honors, including the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy awards. Peace is Gene Wolfe’s first full-length novel, a work that shows the genius that later flourished in such acclaimed works as Home Fires and The Book of the New Sun.
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