Pirate Freedom

Publication(s)

• First publication Tor hardcover, November 2007; jacket cover by David Grove.

Analysis

Summary

Complete plot summary -- SPOILERS

Comments

• General comments on place in Wolfe's corpus
• Sources of quotes
• Meanings of names
• References to other works
• Etc.

Interpretations

• Good-bye, Old Buddy -- SPOILERS An analysis of a mysterious death

Unresolved Questions

Blurbs

• Front cover
  "If any writer from within genre fiction ever merited the designation Great Author, it is surely Wolfe." -- The Washington Post Book World
• Back cover
  "Sentence by sentence, Mr. Wolfe writes as well as anyone in science fiction today." -- New York Times
  "Wolfe is our Melville." -- Ursula K. Le Guin
  "One of the literary giants of science fiction." -- The Denver Post
  "Gene Wolfe is among the best writers working in this country." -- Fort Worth Star-Telegram
  "One of the genre's most literate and thoughtful authors; highly recommended." -- Library Journal (starred review) on Soldier of Sidon
• Inside flap
  "Gene Wolfe is the smartest, subtlest, most dangerous writer alive today. -- Neil Gaiman
  "Gene Wolfe is as good a writer as there is today. ... I feel a little bit like a musical contemporary attempting to tell people what's good about Mozart." -- Chicago Sun-Times