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Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse
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A tightly themed, well executed collection: Wastelands captures our apocalypse fears and fantasies equally well and sometimes even simultaneously.
Adams wisely chooses Stephen King's "The End of the Whole Mess" as an opener and moves into all manner of exciting territory from there. Wastelands is the expected mix of strong (and some avera... »
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The Sandman Vol. 6: Fables and Reflections
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To me, this is one of the best volumes in the series. It's a collection of eight separate stories of varying lengths, almost all with an historical connection. (To more or less real people, that is.) And there's no frame story for a change. "Three Septembers and a January" is a lovely piece about Emperor Norton, the deluded mascot of San Francisco for ... »
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Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun' (New Sun)
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One of the most acclaimed "science fantasies" ever, Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun is a long, magical novel in four volumes. Shadow & Claw contains the first two: The Shadow of the Torturer and The Claw of the Conciliator, which respectively won the World Fantasy and Nebula Awards. This is the first-person narr... »
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Pirate Freedom (Sci Fi Essential Books)
An interesting take on the pirate novel from Gene Wolfe. As other reviewers have mentioned, he recycles the narrative device from the Wizard-Knight in wh... »
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Latro in the Mist
Gene Wolfe is a rewarding but very difficult writer. Like the little girl with the curl, when he is good he is very, very good and when he is bad...you wa... »
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Soldier of Sidon
I am a great fan of Gene Wolfe and the Soldier in the Mist stories. The first Latro novel was a marvelous conceit (narrator with no memory) explored brill... »
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