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| Author | : Gene Wolfe |
| Publisher | : New York : Pocket Books ; Markham, Ont. : Distributed in Canada by PaperJacks |
| Total Pages | : 410 |
| Release | : 1980 |
| Genre | : Science fiction, American |
| ISBN | : 9780671828240 |
| Author | : Gene Wolfe |
| Publisher | : Orb Books |
| Total Pages | : 395 |
| Release | : 1997-07-15 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1429966807 |
A superb collection of science fiction and fantasy stories, The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories is a book that transcends all genre definitions. The stories within are mined with depth charges, explosions of meaning and illumination that will keep you thinking and feeling long after you have finished reading. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
| Author | : Gene Wolfe |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 479 |
| Release | : 2009-03-17 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0765321351 |
The best stories of a long and influential career by “quite simply a superb writer” (The Washington Post Book World)
| Author | : Thomas D. Clareson |
| Publisher | : Popular Press |
| Total Pages | : 236 |
| Release | : 1984 |
| Genre | : Science fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780879722524 |
| Author | : Gene Wolfe |
| Publisher | : Tor Fantasy |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2017-04-04 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780765358509 |
It starts with a confession from a priest. His past has reached further back than what many would consider possible. Before he was a priest, he was the pirate Captain Cristofo, and before he was a pirate, he was just Chris, a boy living in a monastery in Cuba the day after tomorrow. One day Chris realizes that he is not meant for the monastery he has grown up in, and leaves. On the streets of Havana everything looks strange and out-of-date, but Chris is too busy trying to find his next meal and a safe place to sleep to contemplate the city's odd lack of modern conveniences. He finds that this world is a much harder one than the one he remembers; it's a place where people steal, lie, and cheat. Where slaves are sold at auction, and the Spanish, French, and English are all battling for supremacy. When Chris is offered the opportunity to work on a ship in exchange for food and a small bit of money, he takes it, and thus begins his life as a pirate. People die, treasures are found, women are taken captive, and crews rebel. Gene Wolfe is a masterful storyteller, and in Pirate Freedom, he uses his customary vision to invite us into the captivating world of pirates, their lives, and their adventures.
| Author | : Christopher Palmer |
| Publisher | : Wesleyan University Press |
| Total Pages | : 253 |
| Release | : 2016-05-10 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 0819576220 |
A wide-ranging and appreciative literary history of the castaway tale from Defoe to the present Ever since Robinson Crusoe washed ashore, the castaway story has survived and prospered, inspiring a multitude of writers of adventure fiction to imitate and adapt its mythic elements. In his brilliant critical study of this popular genre, Christopher Palmer traces the castaway tales' history and changes through periods of settlement, violence, and reconciliation, and across genres and languages. Showing how subsequent authors have parodied or inverted the castaway tale, Palmer concentrates on the period following H. G. Wells's The Island of Dr. Moreau. These much darker visions are seen in later novels including William Golding's Lord of the Flies, J. G. Ballard's Concrete Island, and Iain Banks's The Wasp Factory. In these and other variations, the castaway becomes a cannibal, the castaway's island is relocated to center of London, female castaways mock the traditional masculinity of the original Crusoe, or Friday ceases to be a biddable servant. By the mid-twentieth century, the castaway tale has plunged into violence and madness, only to see it return in young adult novels—such as Scott O'Dell's Island of the Blue Dolphins and Terry Pratchett's Nation—to the buoyancy and optimism of the original. The result is a fascinating series of revisions of violence and pessimism, but also reconciliation.
| Author | : Peter Wright |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 184631058X |
"Gene Wolfe is one of America's most acclaimed fantasy and science fiction writers, This collection celebrates Wolfe's forty-year writing career by bringing together all of the major interviews Wolfe gave between 1973 and 2003 and publishing for the first time his series of essays on the art of writing, the future of libraries and the practicalities of reviewing fiction."--BOOK JACKET.
| Author | : Gene Wolfe |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 356 |
| Release | : 1995-12-15 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780312890490 |
The World Fantasy Award-winning volume, in its first paperback edition. This brilliant collection of 31 remarkable stories from the past two decades contains many of Wolfe's most appealing and accessible works. "A fine collection that showcases the wide range of Wolfe's weird and wonderful talent".--Kirkus Reviews.
| Author | : Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Publisher | : Penguin UK |
| Total Pages | : 268 |
| Release | : 2006-01-26 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0141908076 |
Everyone has a dark side. Dr Jekyll has discovered the ultimate drug. A chemical that can turn him into something else. Suddenly, he can unleash his deepest cruelties in the guise of the sinister Hyde. Transforming himself at will, he roams the streets of fog-bound London as his monstrous alter-ego. It seems he is master of his fate. It seems he is in complete control. But soon he will discover that his double life comes at a hideous price...
| Author | : Pearl North |
| Publisher | : Tor Teen |
| Total Pages | : 334 |
| Release | : 2009-07-07 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1429960175 |
In her debut novel, Pearl North takes readers centuries into the future, to a forgotten colony of Earth where technology masquerades as magic and wars are fought over books. Haly is a Libyrarian, one of a group of people dedicated to preserving and protecting the knowledge passed down from the Ancients and stored in the endless maze of books known as the Libyrinth. But Haly has a secret: The books speak to her. When the threat of the rival Eradicants drives her from her home, Haly learns that things are not all she thinks they are. Taken prisoner by the Eradicants, who believe the written word to be evil, she sees the world through their eyes and comes to understand that they are not the book-burning monsters that she has known her entire life. The words of a young girl hiding in an attic—written hundreds of years before Haly's birth—will spark the interest of her captors and begin the change necessary to end the conflict between the Eradicants and Libyrarians. With the help of her loyal companion Nod, a creature of the Libyrinth, Haly must mend the rift between the two groups before their war for knowledge destroys them all. Haly's life—and the lives of everyone she knows—will never be the same. A powerful adventure that unites the present and future, Libyrinth is a fresh, magical novel that will draw in young readers of all genres. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
