REQUEST: Gene Wolfe recommendation

Barry Meikle · 17 Jan 1993, 02:05 · from sf-lovers.1993.mbox

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From: meikle at gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Barry Meikle)
Subject: Re: REQUEST: Gene Wolfe recommendation
Date: 17 Jan 93 02:05:19 GMT
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pnh at panix.com (Patrick Nielsen-Hayden) writes:
>Your recommendation of THE FIFTH HEAD OF CERBERUS and THE ISLAND OF DOCTOR
>DEATH AND OTHER STORIES AND OTHER STORIES zeroes unerringly in on two
>books which are currently out of print.  We actually own THE FIFTH HEAD OF
>CERBERUS and will be getting it back into print by and by.  Meanwhile,
>fans of Gene's short fiction can find quite a lot of it in ENDANGERED
>SPECIES, STORIES FROM THE OLD HOTEL, and CASTLE OF DAYS.

And _Castle of Days_ contains "The Castle of the Otter", which I (and a lot
of others, I guess) missed on its first small-press go-round.  I think
"Keen!" is the word I'm looking for here.

Barry Meikle                    
University of Toronto Bookstore
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Toronto, Ont. M5T 3A1
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meikle at gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca

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