The Best of Gene Wolfe
A Definitive Retrospective of His Finest Short Fiction
ISBN10: 1250618584
ISBN13: 9781250618580
Trade Paperback
480 Pages
$21.99
CA$29.99
One of the greatest writers in genre (and literary fiction) of the 20th century, Gene Wolfe was a national treasure who produced the finest and most significant body of short fiction in the SF and fantasy field over the last fifty years. The Best of Gene Wolfe is an amazing retrospective collection of his short fiction, selected by Wolfe himself.
Too many award winners and Best Of stories to list here; just as a sample we have "The Island of Dr. Death and Other Stories", "The Fifth Head of Cerberus", "Petting Zoo", "The Tree Is My Hat", "Seven American Nights", and "A Cabin on the Coast."
Incredible tales from a writer who challenged, amazed, and who revolutionized the genre.
And whose stories will stand the test of time.
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Praise for The Best of Gene Wolfe
“If any writer from within genre fiction ever merited the designation Great Author, it is surely Wolfe . . . [who] reads like Dickens, Proust, Kipling, Chesterton, Borges, and Nabokov rolled into one.”—The Washington Post Book World
“Wolfe is a sophisticated stylist, and has more in common with writers such as Jorge Luis Borges than almost any science fiction writer both in terms of craft and themes.”—The Boston Globe
“Gene Wolfe is as good a writer as there is today . . . I feel a little bit like a musical contemporary attempting to tell people what's good about Mozart.”—The Chicago Sun-Times
“The Best of Gene Wolfe reflects his great versatility as a stylist, introducing me not to another side of Gene Wolfe, but to a great variety of other sides . . . Wolfe stands out as a major figure in contemporary science fiction and fantasy.”—Vector
“If every contemporary SF writer bar one were to be wiped out, it's a fair bet that Gene Wolfe would top many lists of who should be saved . . . An essential addition to any SF library.”—Interzone
“There are all kinds of stories in this collection, from adventure to meta-fiction to SF noir . . . Here are so many really strong stories in the collection that anyone who loves reading, much less whether they usually enjoy speculative fiction or not, would be crazy not to check it out. Highly recommended.”—SFRevu
“Wolfe is our Melville.”—Ursula K. Le Guin
“Wolfe mixes pulp adventure, ghost stories, and noir with self-reference, meta-fiction, unreliable narrators, and puns . . . A highly flattering career retrospective of a postmodern fabulist disguised as a mild-mannered SF writer.”—Publishers Weekly
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