Wolfe dropped out during his junior year, and was drafted to fight in the Korean War. While attending Texas A&M University Wolfe published his first speculative fiction in The Commentator, a student literary journal. The award will be presented at the 48th Annual Nebula Awards Weekend in San Jose, CA, May 16-19, 2013. Le Guin, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury and Joe Haldeman. The Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award is given by SFWA for ‘lifetime achievement in science fiction and/or fantasy.’ Wolfe joins the Grand Master ranks alongside such legends as Connie Willis, Michael Moorcock, Anne McCaffrey, Robert Silverberg, Ursula K. He was a prolific short story writer and a novelist, and has won many awards in the field. He was noted for his dense, allusive prose as well as the strong influence of his Catholic faith, to which he converted after marrying a Catholic. Gene Wolfe was an American science fiction and fantasy writer. 'Wolfe's narrative glows, rich and seductive as ever.'- Kirkus Reviews In Green's Jungles is Wolfe's major new fiction, The Book of the Short Sun, building toward a strange and seductive climax. And people mistake him for Silk, to whom he now bears a remarkable resemblance.

His personality now seemingly inhabits a different body, so that even his sons do not recognize him. He has also encountered the mysterious aliens, the Neighbors, who once inhabited both Blue and Green. There, he led a band of mercenary soldiers, answered to the name of Rajan, and later became the ruler of a city state. Horn recalls visiting the Whorl, the enormous spacecraft in orbit that brought the settlers from Urth, and going thence to the planet Green, home of the blood-drinking alien inhumi. Now Horn's identity has become ambiguous, a complex question embedded in the story, whose telling is itself complex, shifting from place to place, present to past. It is again narrated by Horn, who has embarked on a quest from his home on the planet Blue in search of the heroic leader Patera Silk.

Gene Wolfe's In Green's Jungles is the second volume, after On Blue's Waters, of his ambitious SF trilogy, The Book of the Short Sun.

In Green's Jungles by Gene Wolfe