The Missing Are Deadly

Fred Kiesche · 20 Mar 2012, 13:04 · from 2012-March.txt.gz

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From: godelescherbach at gmail.com (Fred Kiesche)
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 09:04:44 -0400
Subject: (urth) The Missing Are Deadly
Message-ID: <CAC1m3Sf_W8GciVP1gcEDYCV9Vg+5dVfKj7OwYdtP25WPjbV8TQ at mail.gmail.com>

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/).
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