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“One of the literary giants of science fiction.”--The Colorado Post “Wolfe is just a advanced stylist, and has more in keeping with writers such as Jorge Luis Borges than just about any science fiction author equally when it comes to art and themes.”—The Ma GlobeGene Wolfe, of whom the Washington Article stated, "Of all SF writers presently energetic none is held in greater respect," has selected the short fiction he views his best into one volume.There are many prize nominees and winners among the thirty-one tales below, and many which have been selected for several Year's Best anthologies during the last forty years, including “Petting Zoo,” “The Shrub Is My Cap,” “The Island of Dr. Death and Other Stories,” “The Hero as Werwolf,” “Seven National Evenings,” “The Fifth Head of Cerberus,” “The Investigator of Dreams,” and “A Cottage around the Coast.” Gene Wolfe has created probably the best and most critical body of short fiction in the SF and fantasy area within the last forty decades, and is unquestionably one of the great living writers to emerge in the styles. This is actually the first retrospective assortment of his whole career. It's for that Wolfe may be the best, subtlest, most harmful author living today.”--Neil Gaiman