Endangered Species [Import] [Paperback]

Gene Wolfe (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 512 pages
• Publisher: Futura Orbit; New Ed edition (1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0708883257
• ISBN-13: 978-0708883259
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,891,278 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Gene Wolfe is winner of the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, and many other awards. In 2007, he was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. He lives in Barrington, Illinois.

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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bach, Milton, and ..., January 21, 2006

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Lady Ash (Spartanburg, SC USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Endangered Species (Paperback)

Wolfe! Three intense pleasures!

I would advise readers not to read straight through *any* collection of short stories, but to savor them. More to the point, in his preface to his collection _Book of Days_ (also printed in _Castle of Days_) Wolfe advises his readers not to read his stories the way we eat potato chips (one right after the other), but to read, reflect, reread, consider. In this collection, too, Wolfe has a thoughtful, intriguing, and all-too-brief introduction.

I don't know another way to read Wolfe. The man taught me how to read.

The stories in the collection:

A Cabin on the Coast

The Map

Kevin Malone

The Dark of the June

The Death of Hyle

From the Notebook of Dr. Stein

Thag

The Nebraskan and the Nereid

In the House of Gingerbread

The Headless Man

The Last Thrilling Wonder Story

House of Ancestors

Our Neighbor by David Copperfield

When I Was Ming the Merciless

The God and His Man

The Cat

War Beneath the Tree

Eyebem

The HORARS of War

The Detective of Dreams

Peritonitis

The Woman Who Loved the Centaur Pholus

The Woman the Unicorn Loved

The Peace Spy

All the Hues of Hell

Procreation ( i -- Creation; ii - Recreation; iii - The Sister's Account)

Lukora

Suzanne Delage

Sweet Forest Maid

My Book

The Other Dead Man

The Most Beautiful Woman on the World

The Tale of the Rose and the Nightingale (And What Came of It)

Silhouette

Some notes:

"The Map" and "The Cat" happen in the world of the "New Sun" series (Urth)

"The Dark of the June" "The Death of Hyle" "From the Notebook of Dr. Stein" and "Thag" form a sequence

"Woman Who Loved the Centaur Pholus" and "Woman the Unicorn Loved" are linked.

The titular "Nebraskan" of "The Nebraskan and the Nereid" also appears in Wolfe's "The Eleventh City" (available in his _Innocents Aboard_) and in his "Lord of the Land" (available in his _Starwater Strains_.)

"War Beneath the Tree" also appears in Wolfe's _Book of Days_ (pb in _Castle of Days_)

"The Detective of Dreams" shows the influence of G.K. Chesterton

"When I Was Ming the Merciless" is thought by many readers to have been inspired by the Stanford prison experiment.

24 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The most underrated collection since Borges., September 9, 1997

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This review is from: Endangered Species (Hardcover)

Gene Wolfe is a thinker. His intricate fiction demonstrates a mind that is crammed with ideas which hurl themselves into the souls of his characters and the ideals of his stories with forceful abandon. So insightful and varied that it usually defies the overapplied label of science fiction, Wolfe's work is not for the shallow reader; for those who desire food for thought, on the other hand, this is the richest of feasts. Yet in spite of his subtly interwoven social commentary and his consinstently profound innovations, Wolfe's most valuable trait is his skill as a pure storyteller. The quality of the material in these stories and the adeptness with which their themes are transferred to prose is enough to entice even the most bored bookworm

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Behind the veil, a loud voice that is never seen, September 24, 2005

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Hugo M. Gomez "zematus7378@yahoo" (Turlock, Ca) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Endangered Species (Paperback)

How is it this man is not better known! Perhaps short stories, mr. mcdorman, aren't meant to be read by the plenty. I for one can't help placing the book down after reading a great one (and that applies to almost every story in this collection) to sit back in wonder as the story unfolds again in my mind. Enjoy this,you, anybody. And find the rest of his stories, which none are small or without ardor.