He helped devise the cooking process for Pringles before writing acclaimed novels such as “Book of the New Sun.”
By Harrison Smith Harrison Smith Obituary writer Email Bio Follow April 28 at 6:50 PM Gene Wolfe, an industrial engineer who helped devise the cooking process for Pringles, the stackable chip, and then turned to fantasy and science-fiction writing to craft intricate, philosophically rich novels that explored faith, war and distant planets, died April 14 in Peoria, Ill. He was 87.
“When I was a boy my brother David and I had to go to bed early whether we were sleepy or not,” he wrote.
Set on the futuristic planet Urth , the novel revolved around an apprentice executioner, Severian, who is exiled after he grants leniency to a prisoner, allowing her to die by suicide in lieu of torture. “I tried to put in just about everything I thought important in human life,” Wolfe told The Post in 1983, describing the original novel’s origins. “You know the story about Leo Tolstoy the night after he sent the manuscript of ‘War and Peace’ to his publisher? He is supposed to have sat up in bed, slapped himself on the forehead and said: ‘My God, I forgot the yacht race.’
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