Storeys from the Old Hotel
By Gene Wolfe
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Hailed as "one of the literary giants of science fiction" by The Denver Post, Gene Wolfe is universally acknowledged as one of the most brilliant writers the field has ever produced. Winner of the World Fantasy Award for best fiction collection, Storeys from the Old Hotel contains thirty-one remarkable gems of Wolfe's short fiction from the past two decades, most unavailable in any other form.
Storeys from the Old Hotel includes many of Gene Wolfe's most appealing and engaging works, from short-shorts that can be read in single setting to whimsical fantasy and even Sherlock Holmes pastiches. It is a literary feast for anyone interested in the best science fiction has to offer.
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Gene Wolfe
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. 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. A recipient of the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, the Edward E. 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.
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Reviews for Storeys from the Old Hotel
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A collection of what Wolfe, in his introduction, call "my most obscure work" and "mostly stories that I feel are good, but that have received little or no praise." I have to put myself in the "no praise" camp here. There are two tales from the Liavek shared world series, two attempts at Sherlockian SF that were so convoluted in their explanations, I thought they must be parodies, some New Yorker submissions that try very hard to emulate that publication's "make sure nothing happens" style, and so on. Wolfe is simply too clever a writer me. Even when he explains what he was doing in the story "Beech Hill", I still don't get it.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Back in the day, Wolfe could really write. The rich language, and unique characters, are still new and interesting.