Storeys from the Old Hotel

Gene Wolfe

8.0 / 10
1 rating

World Fantasy Award 1989.

A collection of short stories.

  • The Green Rabbit from S'Rian
  • Beech Hill
  • Sightings at Twin Mounds
  • Continuing Westward
  • Slaves of Silver
  • The Rubber Bend
  • Westwind
  • Sonya, Crane, Wessleman, and Kittee
  • The Packerhaus Method
  • Straw
  • The Marvelous Brass Chessplaying Automaton
  • To the Dark Tower Came
  • Parkroads---A Review
  • The Flag
  • Alphabet
  • A Criminal Proceeding
  • In Looking-Glass Castle
  • Cherry Jubilee
  • Redbeard
  • A Solar Labyrinth
  • Love, Among the Corridors
  • Checking Out
  • Morning Glory
  • Trip, Trap
  • From the Desk of Gilmer C. Merton
  • Civis Laputus Sum
  • The Recording
  • Last Day
  • Death of the Island Doctor
  • Redwood Coast Roamer:
    • On the Train
    • In the Mountains
    • At the Volcano's Lip
    • In the Old Hotel
  • Choice of the Black Goddess

Hailed as "one of the literary giants of science fiction" by The Denver Post, Gene Wolfe is universally acknowledged as one of the most brilliant writers the field has ever produced. Winner of the World Fantasy Award for best fiction collection, Storeys from the Old Hotel contains thirty-one remarkable gems of Wolfe's short fiction from the past two decades, most unavailable in any other form.

Storeys from the Old Hotel includes many of Gene Wolfe's most appealing and engaging works, from short-shorts that can be read in single setting to whimsical fantasy and even Sherlock Holmes pastiches. It is a literary feast for anyone interested in the best science fiction has to offer.

Published
1988
Where to find this book
External links open a book search at the selected retailer. Availability may vary.

Additional book details

Author

Gene Wolfe

Gene Rodman Wolfe (1931-2019) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He was noted for his dense, allusive prose as well as the strong influence of his Catholic faith. He was a prolific short-story writer and novelist and won many science fiction and fantasy literary awards. Wolfe is best known for his Book of the New Sun series (four volumes, 1980–83), the first part of his "Solar Cycle". In 1998, Locus magazine ranked it the third-best fantasy novel published before 1990 based on a poll of subscribers that considered it and several other series as single entries.