Starwater Strains
by Gene Wolfe
A collection of short stories.
- Viewpoint
- Rattler
- In Glory like Their Star
- Calamity Wraps
- Shields of Mars
- From the Cradle
- Black Shoes
- Has Anyone Seen Junie Moon?
- Pulp Cover
- Of Soil and Climes
- Dog of the Drops
- Mute
- Petting Zoo
- The Fat Magician
- Hunter Lake
- The Boy Who Hooked the Sun
- Try and Kill It
- Game in the Popes Head
- Empires of Foliage and Flower
- The Armaspian Legacy
- The Seraph and the Sepulchre
- Lord of the Land
- Golden City Far
Gene Wolfe follows the recent, acclaimed, all-fantasy short-story collection, Innocents Aboard, and his magnificent fantasy series, The Wizard Knight,
with a volume devoted primarily to his science fiction. The twenty-five
stories here amply demonstrate his range, excellence, and mastery of
the form that has traditionally been the heart of the field. Their
diversity makes them otherwise impossible to characterize as a group,
so a few tantalizing samples will have to suffice:
"Viewpoint" takes on the unreality of so-called "reality" TV and imagines such a show done truly for real, with real guns, and a real government clawing at the money.
Wolfe has loved dinosaurs since he was a kid. In "Petting Zoo," he imagines the reunion of a man and an aged dinosaur who look back together on a day when they were much, much younger, and much freer.
"Empires of Foliage and Flower" is a special treat, an addition to the classic Book of The New Sun series first published only as a limited-edition chapbook.
The volume closes with its newest story, "Golden City Far." It's about dreams, high school, and finding love, which Wolfe says "is about as good a recipe for a story as I've ever found." You're sure to agree.
"Viewpoint" takes on the unreality of so-called "reality" TV and imagines such a show done truly for real, with real guns, and a real government clawing at the money.
Wolfe has loved dinosaurs since he was a kid. In "Petting Zoo," he imagines the reunion of a man and an aged dinosaur who look back together on a day when they were much, much younger, and much freer.
"Empires of Foliage and Flower" is a special treat, an addition to the classic Book of The New Sun series first published only as a limited-edition chapbook.
The volume closes with its newest story, "Golden City Far." It's about dreams, high school, and finding love, which Wolfe says "is about as good a recipe for a story as I've ever found." You're sure to agree.
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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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