The Second? Best of Gene Wolfe

Marc Aramini · 16 Oct 2014, 17:18 · from 2014-October.txt.gz

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From: marcaramini at gmail.com (Marc Aramini)
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 10:18:56 -0700
Subject: (urth) The Second? Best of Gene Wolfe
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50 is a lot ... when I count the Thag stories as four, my list came to 36
... so I guess I could throw 14 more in, but gee ...

On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 10:16 AM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <danldo at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Good idea, but do we have to come up with 50, or can we limit it to those
> we feel are more deserving?
>
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Robert Pirkola <rpirkola at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> In *The Best of Gene Wolfe* story collection, Mr. Wolfe writes small
>> blurbs about each
>> story at its close.  After the final story in the volume, "A Cabin on the
>> Coast", Wolfe reveals
>> that he himself chose the stories contained therein.  He also said that
>> we the reader has "every
>> right to disagree, but don't tell me if you do; it won't accomplish a
>> thing.  Tell Tor Books instead.
>> Name your favorite, and demand that it be included in a second volume."
>>
>> I think that this mailing list could probably discuss and come up with a
>> pretty good list of
>> 30 or so stories to include in such a volume.  If we could come to a
>> consensus (now there's
>> a likely story!) we could maybe submit it to Tor as our two cents.  Below
>> is a link to the WolfeWiki
>> page listing the stories that were included in the first volume (add
>> "Christmas Inn" from
>> the British version):
>>
>> http://www.wolfewiki.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=WolfeWiki.TheBestOfGeneWolfe
>>
>> Here is a link to the WolfeWiki's full list of Gene Wolfe short stories:
>>
>> http://www.wolfewiki.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=WolfeWiki.StoriesListByDate
>>
>>
>> If you want to participate, select fifty (50) stories to nominate and
>> post it.  After everyone has
>> had a reasonable amount of time to chime in, I will tally the votes and
>> publish the top thirty vote
>> getters.  Any concerns about the list can be hashed out through
>> discussion after that.
>> If anyone has an idea for a system more likely to produce a list
>> reflecting the opinions
>> of the list, I would be open to suggestions.  Otherwise, why not give it
>> a go?
>>
>>
>>
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