(urth) The Missing Are Deadly

David Stockhoff dstockhoff at verizon.net
Tue Mar 20 06:10:29 PDT 2012


I have all those, so perhaps my library hunted yours down and ate it. 
That's what a lupine library would do.

On 3/20/2012 9:04 AM, Fred Kiesche wrote:
> After reading the message about the "May is Gene Wolfe Shorts Month", 
> I went to my shelf to pull down some books. And made a shocking 
> discovery: where has all my Gene Wolfe gone?
> I mean, I **swear** I bought Pirate Freedom. Not there. Couldn't find 
> Peace. Castle of Days is there, both versions of the best of were 
> there (anybody want the Tor version as I have the SubPress version as 
> well with one extra story?). New Sun, etc., Sidon, all there.
> But no: There Are Doors, Endangered Species, The Devil in a Forest, 
> Pirate Freedom, Peace, Starwater Strains, Strange Travelers, Storeys 
> from the Old Hotel, Innocents Abroad.
> Mostly short story collections...did some librarian from a far-off 
> alternate/future world come and raid my collection? Or did I just loan 
> them out and forget who I loaned them to? Or are they mis-shelved?
> If not misplaced on the shelves, then probably gone. Luckily all are 
> in print, most are in print for new. But weird.
>
> -- 
> F.P. Kiesche III  "Ah Mr. Gibbon, another damned, fat, square book. 
> Always, scribble, scribble, scribble, eh?" (The Duke of Gloucester, on 
> being presented with Volume 2 of The Decline and Fall of the Roman 
> Empire.) Blogging at The Lensman's Children 
> (http://theeternalgoldenbraid.blogspot.com/).
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