Gene Wolfe may be the single best writer in Fantasy and SF today.
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..
A recipient of the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, the Edward E.
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 .
About the Author: 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 .
This is fantastic fiction at its best.
Highlights from the twenty-two Stories include "The Tree is my Hat," adventure and horror in the South Seas, "The Night Chough," a Long Sun story, "The Walking Sticks," a darkly humorous tale of a supernatural inheritance, and "Houston, 1943," lurid adventures in a dream that has no end.
Innocents Aboard gathers Fantasy and horror Stories from the last decade that have never before been in a Wolfe collection.
His quotes and reviews certainly support that contention, and so does his impressive short fiction oeuvre.
Gene Wolfe may be the single best writer in Fantasy and SF today
