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Gene Wolfe is producing the most significant body of short fiction of any living writer in the SF genre. It has been ten years since the last major Wolfe collection, so Strange Travelers contains a whole decade of achievement. Some of these stories were award nominees, some were controversial, but each is unique and beautifully written.
- Sales Rank: #1715450 in Books
- Published on: 2001-02-03
- Released on: 2001-02-03
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x .85" w x 5.50" l, 1.06 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 384 pages
- ISBN13: 9780312872786
- Condition: New
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Amazon.com Review
Strange Travelers is a rich and exciting tapestry of eclectic tales sure to please, whether this is your first foray into the worlds of Gene Wolfe or a return journey. The story lines run the gamut from traditional science fiction with a twist to a delightful retelling of a Russian folk tale.
"To the Seventh" is a classic science fiction story about a chess game between God and the Devil. The pieces on the cosmic chessboard are represented by beings scattered across the universe. The hero of the story, Mack Chance, is asked by God, in the guise of a tactical war computer, to undertake a suicidal mission. His ship has the capability and fuel to jump 300,000 parsecs in two jumps of 150,000 parsecs each, but God asks him to accept an assignment 900,000 parsecs away, in the heart of enemy territory on the belief that miracles can happen:
"You answered without reflection. This time I want you to reflect, Captain Chance. Do you believe in miracles?"
Mack reflected, tussling with successive layers deceptively labeled "soul," "core," and "innermost being"--tearing each to bits and throwing each aside, only to find that it kept creeping back. At length he said, "Where you're concerned, yes sir. I do, sir. I mean--"
Those six jumps equate to the six moves a chess pawn would have to move forward to arrive at the last row of a chessboard and be subsequently "Queened." If you're familiar with chess and know the difficulty of queening a pawn you can almost guess the outcome of the story. But the path Chance takes, which meanders through the universe with a stop near Portland, Oregon, is one that will delight and titillate.
"And When They Appear" is a tale of a young boy who is being cared for by his parents' computerized house in a post-apocalypse world. Sherby, too young really to understand the evil in the world, is kept entertained by computer-generated holograms while a roving band of looters steadily approaches the house. With the power to override the house program, Sherby innocently creates a situation in which the house is destroyed and Sherby himself is "rescued" by a rather seedy and degenerate character. Thankfully, Wolfe spares the reader most of the details of Sherby's future.
The other strange tales in Wolfe's collection include a thought-provoking campfire horror story set in the far future; the story of the "mother" of intelligent robots being pursued by one of the beings she unwittingly helped create; and the adventures of three female time travelers, castaways on the shores of Earth. There's another horror yarn about a human boy who runs with ghouls and a tale about a boy who gets trapped in his sister's dollhouse each time he sleeps.
Strange Travelers is a broad and deep book by a master wordsmith. Like Wolfe's Castle of Days, Strange Travelers contains a few unclassifiable stories. This only enhances the rich landscape of this collection. Strange Travelers reaffirms Wolfe's adroitness and mastery in the short story genre. It's well worth losing a little sleep over. --Robert Gately
From Publishers Weekly
Not for the faint of heart or weak of stomach, this collection of Wolfe's stories published in the 1990s contains death by overdose, suicide, Armageddon, cruelty to animals, abuse of children, children willing to falsely accuse fathers of sexual abuse and a plethora of vampiric female figures eager to suck the life out of men. Opening with "Bluesberry Jam," Wolfe (The Book of the Long Sun series, etc.) creates an intriguing speculative future in which an entire culture arises from people who have been stuck in a traffic jam for decades. This conceit is ultimately negated, however, by the most tired of clich?s in the closing story, "Ain't You 'Most Done," which is set in the same world. Also included are two Christmas stories: "No Planets Strike," a relatively sweet tale in which genetically modified animals aid the next Christ child, and "And When They Appear," which is less sweet, involving wonderful, mythic figures who visit, but cannot save, a small boy from a world gone mad. While Wolfe's prose is exceptional and there are a few gems here, such as "Useful Phrases," which delights in how words lead us to and reveal mysteries, there are also several tasteless and misogynistic entries. Chief among them is "The Ziggurat," in which a mother coaches her daughters in the art of false accusation and the father--whose wife leaves him broke-eventually regains all by finding a woman he can dominate and a technology he can steal. All too frequently in this volume, even when women show men "the pleasures of Hell," biting them till they bleed, men emerge loutish and triumphant. (Jan.) FYI: Wolfe is a recipient of the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Two tales featuring a pair of musicians wandering down an endless highway filled with stalled cars ("Bluesberry Jam"; "Ain't You Most Done?") frame this collection of 15 short stories by the award-winning author of the "Book of the New Sun" series. Wolfe's eclectic talent runs the gamut from Russian folk tales to modern horror as he explores a landscape filled with ghouls, aliens, and chess-playing deities. Representing a decade of groundbreaking speculative fiction by a master of the genre, this volume belongs in most libraries.
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Most helpful customer reviews
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Wonderful, chilling ... accessible?
By Lady Ash
OK, after "accessible" I should add "compared to some of Wolfe's other collections." This one doesn't have any stories linked to his "Solar Cycle," and it has several stories which appeared in themed anthologies -- "Death of Koshchei the Deathless" appeared in one of the Datlow and Windling Fairy Tale anthologies, "Ain't You Most Done" appeared in an anthology of work inspired by Neil Gaiman's _Sandman_ series, "Queen of the Night" appeared in a collection of vampire stories, "Flash Company" in an anthology of fantasy about music ... Thus, for fans of SF, this is a good introduction to Wolfe.
As long, I should say, as you don't mind some darkness in your SF. You may never recover after reading the Christmas (!) story "And When They Appear"; "One-Two-Three for Me" and "Queen of the Night" are utterly chilling; and most of the stories have, at the very least, some deep dark shadows (which will come as no surprise to Wolfe veterans). But if you're worrying about graphic, visceral horror, don't. Wolfe will terrify, even horrify, but he won't disgust.
The collection contains:
Bluesberry Jam
One-Two-Three for Me
Counting Cats in Zanzibar
The Death of Koshchei the Deathless
No Planets Strike
Bed and Breakfast
To the Seventh
Queen of the Night
And When They Appear
Flash Company
The Haunted Boardinghouse
Useful Phrases
The Man in the Pepper Mill
The Ziggurat
Ain't You Most Done
Some notes:
The collection is framed by the linked tales "Bluesberry Jam" and "Ain't You Most Done?".
"Useful Phrases" is Wolfe doing a Borges story.
"No Planets Strike" and "And When They Appear" join the growing collection of Wolfe Christmas stories (which also includes "La Befana" "War Beneath the Tree" and "How the Bishop Sailed to Inniskeen").
I rarely have a definite favorite in Wolfe collections, but here I have to give special mention to "The Haunted Boardinghouse."
46 of 51 people found the following review helpful.
A fabulous collection
By Patrick O'Leary
Readers familiar with Wolfe's short fiction will be most impressed by this major new collection. Readers who only know his superb "New/Long/Short Sun" novels will be amazed by the breadth and variety of these dark tales.Everyone else will be dazzled. "STRANGE TRAVELERS reads like an artifact of magic--something hidden, stumbled upon, irresistible and dangerous. A book of nightmares too beautiful to be true, too real to be denied, too vivid to be forgotten. Why doesn't everyone know Gene Wolfe is the best writer alive?
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Great style
By Glenn McDorman
The stories in Strange Travelers are a wonderful display of Wolfe's broad and varied style. Each story is told in an entirely different voice, making it impossible to get tired of reading them. There was more variety in this collection than there often is in multi-author collections.
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