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The Wolfe at the door / Gene Wolfe.
Van Pelt Library PS3573.O52 W65 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wolfe, Gene, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science fiction, American.
- Genre:
- short stories.
- Short stories
- Short stories.
- Science fiction.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 468 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Tor Doherty Associates/Tor Publishing Group, 2023.
- Summary:
- "An all new collection from an American literary icon The circus comes to town... and a man gets to go to the stars. A young girl on a vacation at the sea meets the man of her dreams. Who just happens to be dead. And an immortal pirate. A swordfighter pens his memoirs... and finds his pen is in fact mightier than the sword. Welcome to Gene Wolfe's playground, a place where genres blend and a genius's imagination straps you in for the ride of your life. The Wolfe at the Door is a brand new collection from one of America's premiere literary giants, showcasing some material been seen before. Short stories, yes, but also poems, essays, and ephemera that gives us a window into the mind of a literary powerhouse whose world view changed generations of readers in their perception of the universe"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- On a vacant face a bruise
- Bea and her bird brother
- Memorare
- A method bit in "B"
- Tarzan of the grapes
- The little stranger
- Christmas Inn
- The gunner's mate
- The grave secret
- The old woman in the young woman
- Dormanna
- Easter Sunday
- Archangel Gabriel
- Last night in the garden of forking tongues
- Maybe we've been doing it wrong
- Connect the dots
- Planetarium in orbit
- Remembrance to come
- The on-deck circle
- Hopkins Dalhousie
- How I got three zip codes
- Screen test
- Volksweapon
- The largest luger
- The last casualty of Cambrai
- Last drink bird head
- Mountains like mice
- The green wall said
- Thou spark of blood
- Unrequited love
- Loco parentis
- Going to the beach
- It's very clean
- Frostfree
- The giant
- The magic animal
- The hour of the sheep
- The woman who went out
- Leif in the wind
- The sea of memory
- At the point of Capricorn.
- Notes:
- "A Tor book."
- Other Format:
- Online version: Wolfe, Gene. Wolfe at the door
- ISBN:
- 9781250846204
- 125084620X
- OCLC:
- 1355038542
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