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    Starwater Strains: New Science Fiction Stories
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    Starwater Strains: New Science Fiction Stories

    By Gene Wolfe

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    Gene Wolfe follows his acclaimed all-fantasy short story collection, Innocents Aboard, with a volume devoted primarily to his science fiction. The twenty-five stories here amply demonstrate his range, excellence, and mastery of the form that has traditionally been the heart of the field. Their diversity makes them otherwise impossible to characterize as a group, so a few tantalizing samples will have to suffice:
    "Viewpoint" takes on the unreality of so-called "reality" TV and imagines such a show done truly for real, with real guns, and a real government clawing at the money. Wolfe has loved dinosaurs since he was kid, and in "Petting Zoo" he imagines the reunion of a man and an aged dinosaur who look back together on a day when they were much much younger, and much freer. "Empires of Foliage and Flower" is a special treat, an addition to the classic Book of the New Sun series first published only as a limited edition chapbook. The volume closes with its newest story "Golden City Far." It's about dreams, high school, and finding love, which Wolfe says "is about as good a recipe for a story as I've ever found." You're sure to agree.



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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateMay 2, 2006
    ISBN9781429915557
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    Starwater Strains: New Science Fiction Stories
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    Gene Wolfe

    Gene Wolfe (1931-2019) was the Nebula Award-winning author of The Book of the New Sun tetralogy in the Solar Cycle, as well as the World Fantasy Award winners The Shadow of the Torturer and Soldier of Sidon. He was also a prolific writer of distinguished short fiction, which has been collected in such award-winning volumes as Storeys from the Old Hotel and The Best of Gene Wolfe. A recipient of the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, the Edward E. Smith Memorial Award, and six Locus Awards, among many other honors, Wolfe was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2007, and named Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2012.

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    • 4/5
      I'm really glad to have discovered Gene Wolfe. His short stories invariably give me something to chew over and he's one of the few writers that seems to naturally know how to use the form. I couldn't pick favourites from this volume -- they're all pretty good. He has a good sense of voice and he seems to have had a good share of luck with the intriguing plot idea fairy.

      Overall, starting to think I'll read anything by Gene Wolfe without second thought.
    • 2/5
      This isn't the finest collection of his stories I can think of, but Gene Wolfe, on a bad day, is better than nearly any other American writing today. It has become cliche to note that he is probably the finest science fiction writer alive today, but it is true. LeGuin says he's "our Melville." Yup.
    • 4/5
      I liked almost all the stories. The following is more my reflection on the subject, rather than on the style or prose, which are always masterful. Hit is +, miss is -:+ Viewpoint (2001)- Rattler, with Brian Hopkins (2004)- In Glory like Their Star (2001)- Calamity Warps (2003)+ Graylord Man's Last Words (2003)+ Shields of Mars (2002)+ From the Cradle (2002)- Black Shoes (2003)+ Has Anybody Seen Junie Moon? (1999)- Pulp Cover (2004)+ Of Soil and Climate (2004)- The Dog of the Drops (2002)- Mute (2002)- Petting Zoo (1997)+ Castaway (2003)+ The Fat Magician (2000)- Hunter Lake (2003)+ The Boy Who Hooked the Sun (1985)- Try and Kill It (1996)- Game in Pope's Head (1988)+ Empires of Foliage and Flower (1987)- The Arimaspian Legacy (1987)- The Seraph from Its Sepulcher (1991)- Lord of the Land (1995)+ Golden City Far (2004)