New Wolfe Listing on Amazon

John Smith · 22 Aug 2008, 19:48 · from 2008-August.txt.gz

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From: jsmith2627 at att.net (John Smith)
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:48:56 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: (urth) New Wolfe Listing on Amazon
In-Reply-To: <ecbb2eb0808212146x3e65bb47x20a26e819ad8f840 at mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <341607.84704.qm at web83709.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>

One of my favorite Wolfe stories is  "How the Whip
Came Back."   Domestic strife results in the
re-introduction of slavery.






--- aaron <aaronsingleton at gmail.com> wrote:

> I second "The Toy Theater" Fernando.  I have always
> loved that one.
> Something about it reminds me so much of a Jack
> Vance story.  Maybe that's
> why I like it.  Another one I would include is "Game
> in the Pope's Head"
> just for sheer creepiness.
> 
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 9:41 PM, "Fernando Q.
> Gouv?a" <fqgouvea at colby.edu>wrote:
> 
> > Matthew Groves wrote:
> >>
> >>> What would your personal Best of Gene Wolfe's
> Short Fiction anthology
> >>> contain?  I would include all the novellas from
> The Island of Doctor
> >>> Death and Other Stories and Other Stories.
> >>>
> >>
> > Hmmm, an interesting exercise, this. I'd probably
> favor the shorter stories
> > so that I could fit more of them in. Let's see:
> >
> > Forlesen
> > The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories
> > How the Whip Came Back
> > A Cabin on the Coast
> > Parkroads
> > A Solar Labyrinth
> > Westwind
> > The Detective of Dreams
> > Queen
> > The Hero as Werwolf
> > How I Lost the Second World War and Helped Turn
> Back the German Invasion
> > In Looking-Glass Castle
> > La Befana
> > The War Beneath the Tree
> > No Planets Strike
> > Our Neighbour by David Copperfield
> > When I Was Ming the Merciless
> > The Toy Theater
> > ...
> >
> > Naah, it's hopeless. I like too many of them. And
> that's mostly sticking to
> > the older stories and avoiding all the novellas...
> >
> > Fernando
> >
> > --
> >
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Best wishes,

Jack

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