Young Wolfe

I came across a book of the above title listed on Amazon under the name of Gene Wolfe: has anyone read the book & have any comments? I include the URL below for anyone who wants to look it up. ISBN: 0921322321 Derek

It's minor, but it does contain several early Wolfe stories which have never been printed elsewhere, including the wonderfully titled "Volksweapon". I certainly have never regretted buying it, but I'm a certified Completist. Wombat, a.k.a. Kevin Maroney kmaroney at crossover.com Kitchen Staff Supervisor, New York Review of Science Fiction http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/olp/nyrsf/nyrsf.html

What Wombat said, except that he meant to say "several early Wolfe stories which have never been REprinted elsewhere and two early stories previously unpublished." Very hard to find most of them in any other form--impossible to find the last two. The stories are (I'm cribbing from "AE&2" page 1 here): "The Case of the Vanishing Ghost" [1] "The Grave Secret" [1] "The Dead Man" [2] "Mountains Like Mice" [appeared in "If"] "The Green Wall Said" [appeared in "New Worlds"] "Screen Test" [3] "Volksweapon" [3] "The Largest Luger" [4] (a mystery) "The Last Casualty of Cambrai" [4] (a mystery) [1] in a college magazine [2] appeared in "Sir!" and, much later, "Weird Tales" [3] appeared in "Mike Shayne's Mystery Magazine" [4] the unpublished ones =mantis=

In message <199812142243.OAA13208 at lists1.best.com>, m.driussi at genie.com writes:

Interesting, given that one of the stories in _Endangered Species_ is called The Other Dead Man.

I've heard of this one - Wolfe mentioned it and I think a big name editor of the time (Pohl?) bought it, amending the title slightly. Many thanks to Mantis and Wombat; I'll look into buying this in the next few months. Derek - completist, not certified (but not far from being)