An homage anthology in honor of Gene Wolfe and his fictional worlds. My favorite overall part were the individual "On Gene Wolfe" story prefaces by each author.
+ means hit, - means miss:

+ Frostfree by Gene Wolfe
Helpful futuristic refrigerator.
- A Lunar Labyrinth by Neil Gaiman
Late-night cat and mouse game in the countryside.
+ The Island of the Death Doctor by Joe Haldeman
Imaginary who-is-who.
+ A Touch of Rosemary by Timothy Zahn
From an old wizard to the young.
- Ashes by Steven Savile
Euro tour to say goodbye on own time.
- Bedding by David Drake
Soldier's cycle.
+ ... And Other Stories by Nancy Kress
Losing one self in a story is hard work.
+ The Island of Time by Jack Dann
Sometimes Barsoom is the only escape.
+ The She-Wolf's Hidden Grin by Michael Swanwick
The female side of St. Croix.
+ Snowchild by Michael A. Stackpole
Sword & sorcery and capes.
- Tourist Trap by Barry N. Malzberg & Mike Resnick
Chess in a hot prison cell.
+ Epistoleros by Aaron Allston
A page-binding epistolary in the Old West.
- Rhubarb and Beets by Todd McCaffrey
Herb fueled escape from elf-land.
- Tunes from Limbo, But I Digress by Judi Rohrig
Self-awareness mediated by suspended animation dreams.
+ In the Shadow of the Gate by William C. Dietz
Severian's goes from Shadow to Claw.
- Soldier of Mercy by Marc Aramini
Old mind escapes to Old Rome.
+ The Dreams of the Sea by Jody Lynn Nye
Witch dives into new Ushas.
+ The Log by David Brin
Cold, dark exile for the Russian spirit.
+ The Sea of Memory by Gene Wolfe
Sidelong perspective on time. ( )

Writing a short story in honour of Gene Wolfe is a tough gig, because Gene Wolfe is one of the best short story writers going around - certainly within the speculative fiction fields - and he doesn't have the kind of immediate linguistic markers in his fiction that make it easy to pastiche his style (other, perhaps, than his most famous work, the four-volume Book of the New Sun).

The stories in this volume, including two by Wolfe himself, are a mixed bag - as one would expect. A few too many never go anywhere much, but there are a few that are worthy additions to Wolfe's worlds. I'd encourage those new to Gene Wolfe's work to go straight to the source, and give existing gene Wolfe fans cautious encouragement to check this out. ( )

I love a good collection of short stories and when those stories introduce me to authors I haven't read, or re-introduce me to authors I have read and loved, I'm a happy, happy girl. Especially when said stories are science fiction and fantasy. That's what Shadows of the New Sun is full of so you can imagine I was over the moon when I received a copy of this book.

Read the rest of this review at The Lost Entwife on September 28, 2013. ( )