Innocents Abroad

By: Gene Wolfe

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Hardcover | 1 June 2004 | Edition Number 1

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Gene Wolfe may be the single best writer in fantasy and SF today. His quotes and reviews certainly support that contention, and so does his impressive short fiction oeuvre. Innocents Aboard gathers fantasy and horror stories from the last decade that have never before been in a Wolfe collection. Highlights from the twenty-two stories include "The Tree is my Hat," adventure and horror in the South Seas, "The Night Chough," a Long Sun story, "The Walking Sticks," a darkly humorous tale of a supernatural inheritance, and "Houston, 1943," lurid adventures in a dream that has no end. This is fantastic fiction at its best.

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"It is never easy to tell in Wolfe's short fiction where reality ends and dream begins. Wolfe can write about ghosts and demons in a style entirely free of whimsy or conventional horror, and he can make straightforward science fiction sound like folk legends and wisdom tales."

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Fiction Fantasy Fiction Fiction in Translation and Short Stories Short Stories

Introduction	p. 11
The Tree Is My Hat	p. 15
The Old Woman Whose Rolling Pin Is the Sun	p. 42
The Friendship Light	p. 47
Slow Children at Play	p. 61
Under Hill	p. 68
The Monday Man	p. 82
The Waif	p. 88
The Legend of Xi Cygnus	p. 104
The Sailor Who Sailed After the Sun	p. 110
How the Bishop Sailed to Inniskeen	p. 125
Houston, 1943	p. 133
A Fish Story	p. 161
Wolfer	p. 166
The Eleventh City	p. 187
The Night Chough	p. 193
The Wrapper	p. 215
A Traveler in Desert Lands	p. 223
The Walking Sticks	p. 237
Queen	p. 248
Pocketsful of Diamonds	p. 254
Copperhead	p. 270
The Lost Pilgrim	p. 278
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