Strange Travelers
A collection of short stories.
Locus Award nominee 2001.
Gene Wolfe is producing the most significant body of short fiction of
any living writer in the SF genre. Some of his stories are science
fiction, some fantasy, some horrific; all are powerfully affecting. It
has been ten years since the last major Wolfe collection, and so Strange Travelers contains a whole decade of achievement.
INCLUDING:
BED AND BREAKFAST: Which begins with the line, "I know an old couple who live near Hell."
AND WHEN THEY APPEAR: A Christmas story that will break your heart.
THE ZIGGURAT: A novella about an invasion.
Some
of these stories were award nominees, some were controversial, all are
unique and beautifully written. This is one of the finest short fiction
collections by any American writer of the 1990s.
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.
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