Wolfe trivia questions

Michael Andre-Driussi30 Sep 1999, 13:58original as archived

Does anybody recall what year it was when Gene Wolfe quit working at "Plant Engineering"? I vividly recall the magazine news section headline: "(Genre/SF) Gains Full-Time Wolfe!" (Okay, so maybe not quite =vividly=.) I have a sense that it was in the 90s . . . And while we're poking around in what I can't remember, what was the title of that Wolfe short story with a five sided house (ala LITTLE, BIG) and had a background detail about an invasion of the US by Mexico that had gobbled up much of the Midwest? It was published in a magazine (F&SF?) in the 90s. Thanks in advance! =mantis=

Nicholas Gevers30 Sep 1999, 15:48original as archived

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Answers to the below: Wolfe quit PLANT ENGINEERING in 1984. And the story including the interesting architecture and the Mexican invasion was "The Haunted Boardinghouse", in WALLS OF FEAR (ed. Kathryn Cramer), Morrow 1990, one of Wolfe's best stories, incidentally.

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--- Michael Andre-Driussi <mantis at sirius.com> wrote: Does anybody recall what year it was when Gene Wolfe quit working at "Plant Engineering"? I vividly recall the magazine news section headline: "(Genre/SF) Gains Full-Time Wolfe!" (Okay, so maybe not quite =vividly=.) I have a sense that it was in the 90s . . . And while we're poking around in what I can't remember, what was the title of that Wolfe short story with a five sided house (ala LITTLE, BIG) and had a background detail about an invasion of the US by Mexico that had gobbled up much of the Midwest? It was published in a magazine (F&SF?) in the 90s. Thanks in advance! =mantis= the New Sun and other works