Wraiths, Waifs and Wolves

Very much looking forward to the three upcoming Wolfe volumes which Dr Nick mentions. Does he or anyone else know which stories are going to be included in the "Wraiths, Waifs and Wolves" collection? I bought a copy of "The Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction 15" today. This is Gardner Dozois's pick of what he regards as the best 26 SF stories of 2001. No Wolfe stories are included in the anthology, but three of his titles are given an "honourable mention" in an appendix listing the best "other" stories of 2001. The three Wolfe stories mentioned are: "In Glory Like Their Star" (F&SF, October/November) "Queen" (Realms of Fantasy, December) "Viewpoint" (Redshift) Obviously, I was wondering whether these stories would be included in the forthcoming "W,W&W" collection. I haven't read any of them. I remember the first being discussed on the list when it came out, but have no recollection of anyone's comments on the other two. Are they any good? Nigel

Nigel asked:

He posted the contents in September. Here: < http://urth.net/urth/archives/v0209/1771.txt.shtml >

"Queen" is in it. It's pretty short. It may be the simplest story I've ever read by Wolfe. That is, I felt I knew what it was about before I even finished it. I don't think I would be giving away anything that isn't quite obvious, but here is some spoiler space. It's an overtly religious story about the Assumption of Mary. -Roy

In reply to my query on the contents of the forthcoming collection of GW

Whoops! I don't recall that at all. Thanks, Roy. I clearly haven't being paying proper attention. There still seem to be plenty of uncollected Gene Wolfe short stories out there. When are we going to see the publication of a uniform, multi-volume edition of "The Complete Literary Works of Gene Wolfe", I wonder? These things come out after an author's death, so in that sense I certainly hope that it won't be published for many years yet. On the other hand, it would be a useful work to have. While I'm dreaming, a searchable electronic version of the complete texts would be useful too! (The "Complete Works" should really be published as a proper, annotated, "Variorum" edition, of course. Perhaps some of the contributions to the Urth list will eventually make their way into the apparatus criticus or marginalia...) Nigel

The 'Vance Integral Edition' is scheduled to come out in February. Jack Vance is pretty old, but he's not dead yet. .