Storeys from the Old Hotel

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Author: Gene Wolfe

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 1995-12-15

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780312890490

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The World Fantasy Award-winning volume, in its first paperback edition. This brilliant collection of 31 remarkable stories from the past two decades contains many of Wolfe's most appealing and accessible works. "A fine collection that showcases the wide range of Wolfe's weird and wonderful talent".--Kirkus Reviews.

Storeys from the Old Hotel

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Author: Gene Wolfe

Publisher: Orb Books

Published: 1995-12-15

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 142996734X

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Hailed as "one of the literary giants of science fiction" by The Denver Post, Gene Wolfe is universally acknowledged as one of the most brilliant writers the field has ever produced. Winner of the World Fantasy Award for best fiction collection, Storeys from the Old Hotel contains thirty-one remarkable gems of Wolfe's short fiction from the past two decades, most unavailable in any other form. Storeys from the Old Hotel includes many of Gene Wolfe's most appealing and engaging works, from short-shorts that can be read in single setting to whimsical fantasy and even Sherlock Holmes pastiches. It is a literary feast for anyone interested in the best science fiction has to offer. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Up in the Old Hotel

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Author: Joseph Mitchell

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2015-07-15

Total Pages: 736

ISBN-13: 1101971304

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Saloon-keepers and street preachers, gypsies and steel-walking Mohawks, a bearded lady and a 93-year-old “seafoodetarian” who believes his specialized diet will keep him alive for another two decades. These are among the people that Joseph Mitchell immortalized in his reportage for The New Yorker and in four books—McSorley's Wonderful Saloon, Old Mr. Flood, The Bottom of the Harbor, and Joe Gould's Secret—that are still renowned for their precise, respectful observation, their graveyard humor, and their offhand perfection of style. These masterpieces (along with several previously uncollected stories) are available in one volume, which presents an indelible collective portrait of an unsuspected New York and its odder citizens—as depicted by one of the great writers of this or any other time.

Endangered Species

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Author: Gene Wolfe

Publisher: Orb Books

Published: 2004-09-01

Total Pages: 516

ISBN-13: 1429966211

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Gene Wolfe, whose tetralogy The Book of the New Sun was the most acclaimed science fiction work of the 1980s, offered his second collection of short fiction in 1990 to universal acclaim. This is a hefty volume of over 30 unforgettable stories in a variety of genres-- SF, fantasy, horror, mainstream-many of them offering variations on themes and situations found in folklore and fairy tales, and including two stories, "The Cat" and "The Map," which are set in the universe of his New Sun novels. Wolfe's deconstructions/reconstructions are provocative, multilayered, and resonant. This embarrassment of literary riches is a must for all Gene Wolfe fans, and anyone who loves a good tale beautifully told. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Starwater Strains

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Author: Gene Wolfe

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2006-05-02

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780765312037

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Presents a collection of twenty-five science fiction short stories by acclaimed writer Gene Wolfe.

Solar Labyrinth

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Author: Robert Borski

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2004-05-20

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 0595765378

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Gene Wolfe's BOOK OF THE NEW SUN has been hailed by both critics and readers as quite possibly the best science fiction novel ever written. And yet at the same time, like another masterpiece of fiction, James Joyce's Ulysses, it's been deemed endlessly complex and filled with impenetrable mysteries. Now, however, in the first book-length investigation of Wolfe's literary puzzlebox, Robert Borski takes you inside the twisting corridors of the tetralogy and along the way reveals his solutions to many of the novel's conundrums and riddles, such as who really is Severian's lost twin sister (almost certainly not who you think) and why he believes the novel's main character may not even be the torturer Severian. Furthermore, and in essay after essay, Borski demonstrates how a single master key will unlock many of the book's secret relationships-all in the attempt to guide you through the labyrinth that is Gene Wolfe's BOOK OF THE NEW SUN.

Strange Travelers

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Author: Gene Wolfe

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2001-02-03

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9780312872786

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Strange Travelers contains a decade of achievement for Gene Wolfe. Some of the stories were award nominees, some were controversial, but all are unique and beautifully written.

The Best of Gene Wolfe

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Author: Gene Wolfe

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2009-03-17

Total Pages: 479

ISBN-13: 0765321351

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The best stories of a long and influential career by “quite simply a superb writer” (The Washington Post Book World)

The Hotel Eden: Stories

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Author: Ron Carlson

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1997-05-17

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 0393244059

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Prepare to be amused, moved, disturbed. These stories by a master of idiosyncrasy visit a world where wit has heft, charm has shadow, and human beings act out all the complicated nuances of love. In the title story, a young man waiting in the Hotel Eden discovers—as others have—that Eden is not a permanent domicile. In "Zanduce at Second," a baseball player turned killer-by-accident undergoes a surprising transformation. We root for escaped felon Ray (“A Note on the Type”) as he carves his name on a culvert wall. We drive the sweltering summer streets of Phoenix as a nineteen-year-old narrator goes through an unsettling sexual awakening ("Oxygen"). In these and other stories, whether his characters are getting sabotaged by nightcaps or encountering nudists on a rafting trip, Carlson takes us to new places in a new way.