Endangered Species

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Macmillan, 2004 - 512 páginas

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.

Endangered Species 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.

 

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Introduction
1
Kevin Malone
37
The Dark of the June
50
From the Notebook of Dr Stein
65
The Nebraskan and the Nereid
81
The Headless
111
House of Ancestors
150
Our Neighbour by David Copperfield
178
The Woman Who Loved the Centaur Pholus
286
The Woman the Unicorn Loved
297
The Peace Spy
318
All the Hues of Hell
326
Procreation
342
Lukora
352
Suzanne Delage
361
Sweet Forest Maid
368

Was Ming the Merciless
194
The
210
The HORARS of War
237
The Detective of Dreams
258
Peritonitis
279
My Book
374
The Most Beautiful Woman on the World
400
The Tale of the Rose and the Nightingale
415
Silhouette
445
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Endangered Species: Short Stories
Gene Wolfe
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Endangered Species
Gene Wolfe
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Endangered Species
Gene Wolfe
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Acerca do autor (2004)

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.

Informação bibliográfica

TítuloEndangered Species
AutorGene Wolfe
Ediçãoilustrada
EditoraMacmillan, 2004
ISBN0765310333, 9780765310330
Número de páginas512 páginas
  
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