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The Missing Are Deadly

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Fred Kiesche20 Mar 2012, 13:04as archived
The Missing Are Deadly
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/).
David Stockhoff20 Mar 2012, 13:10as archived
↳ in reply to Fred Kiesche
I have all those, so perhaps my library hunted yours down and ate it. That's what a lupine library would do.
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On 3/20/2012 9:04 AM, Fred Kiesche wrote: 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/). _______________________________________________
jbarach at aol.com20 Mar 2012, 13:13as archived
↳ in reply to Fred Kiesche
Maybe the librarian is blind? John -----Original Message----- From: Fred Kiesche <godelescherbach at gmail.com> To: The Urth Mailing List <urth at lists.urth.net> Sent: Tue, Mar 20, 2012 8:04 am Subject: (urth) The Missing Are Deadly 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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