Strange Travelers: New Selected Stories

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Macmillan, 2001 M02 3 - 384 pages

Gene Wolfe is producing the most significant body of short fiction of any living writer in the SF genre. It has been ten years since the last major Wolfe collection, so Strange Travelers contains a whole decade of achievement. Some of these stories were award nominees, some were controversial, but each is unique and beautifully written.

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Contents

BLUESBERRY JAM
11
ONETWOTHREE FOR ME
41
COUNTING CATS IN ZANZIBAR
49
THE DEATH OF KOSHCHEI THE DEATHLESS
69
NO PLANETS STRIKE
87
BED AND BREAKFAST
99
TO THE SEVENTH
127
QUEEN OF THE NIGHT
151
AND WHEN THEY APPEAR
169
FLASH COMPANY
197
THE HAUNTED BOARDINGHOUSE
209
USEFUL PHRASES
239
THE MAN IN THE PEPPER MILL
249
THE ZIGGURAT
269
AINT YOU MOST DONE?
353
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About the author (2001)

Science fiction and fantasy author Gene Wolfe was born on May 7, 1931. He dropped out of Texas A&M University during his junior year and was drafted to fight in the Korean War. After the war, he received a degree from the University of Houston and became an industrial engineer. He edited the engineering review Plant Engineering for years before retiring to become a full-time writer. His best-known work is the multi-volume novel The Book of the New Sun. He has won the Campbell Memorial Award, the Locus Award four times, and the Nebula Award and the World Fantasty Award two times each. In 1996, he was given the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement. He currently lives in Barrington, Illinois.

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