# The Missing Are Deadly *The Urth list — 3 messages, 3 voices, 20 Mar 2012* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Fred Kiesche *20 Mar 2012, 13:04* 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/). ``` --- ### David Stockhoff *20 Mar 2012, 13:10 · in reply to Fred Kiesche* 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/). > > > > > _______________________________________________ --- ### jbarach at aol.com *20 Mar 2012, 13:13 · in reply to Fred Kiesche* Maybe the librarian is blind? John -----Original Message----- From: Fred Kiesche To: The Urth Mailing List Sent: Tue, Mar 20, 2012 8:04 am Subject: (urth) The Missing Are Deadly 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/). ``` ---