(urth) New Wolfe Listing on Amazon

jayrwasdf jayrwasdf at comcast.net
Mon Aug 25 17:39:58 PDT 2008


I'm a big fan of  Silhouette, which I'm always surprised how little it's 
mentioned on this list.
In many ways, it's always struck me as one of the creepiest he's done 
(in a good way).

And I'd also second the "all the stories in The Island of Doctor 
Death..." comment.
-j

John Smith wrote:
> One of my favorite Wolfe stories is  "How the Whip
> Came Back."   Domestic strife results in the
> re-introduction of slavery.
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> --- aaron <aaronsingleton at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I second "The Toy Theater" Fernando.  I have always
>> loved that one.
>> Something about it reminds me so much of a Jack
>> Vance story.  Maybe that's
>> why I like it.  Another one I would include is "Game
>> in the Pope's Head"
>> just for sheer creepiness.
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 9:41 PM, "Fernando Q.
>> Gouvêa" <fqgouvea at colby.edu>wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Matthew Groves wrote:
>>>       
>>>>> What would your personal Best of Gene Wolfe's
>>>>>           
>> Short Fiction anthology
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>>>>> contain?  I would include all the novellas from
>>>>>           
>> The Island of Doctor
>>     
>>>>> Death and Other Stories and Other Stories.
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>> Hmmm, an interesting exercise, this. I'd probably
>>>       
>> favor the shorter stories
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>>> so that I could fit more of them in. Let's see:
>>>
>>> Forlesen
>>> The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories
>>> How the Whip Came Back
>>> A Cabin on the Coast
>>> Parkroads
>>> A Solar Labyrinth
>>> Westwind
>>> The Detective of Dreams
>>> Queen
>>> The Hero as Werwolf
>>> How I Lost the Second World War and Helped Turn
>>>       
>> Back the German Invasion
>>     
>>> In Looking-Glass Castle
>>> La Befana
>>> The War Beneath the Tree
>>> No Planets Strike
>>> Our Neighbour by David Copperfield
>>> When I Was Ming the Merciless
>>> The Toy Theater
>>> ...
>>>
>>> Naah, it's hopeless. I like too many of them. And
>>>       
>> that's mostly sticking to
>>     
>>> the older stories and avoiding all the novellas...
>>>
>>> Fernando
>>>
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> Jack
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