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Gene Wolfe, whose tetralogy The Book of the New Sun was the most acclaimed science fiction work of the 1980s, offered his second collection of short fiction in 1990 to universal acclaim.

Gene Wolfe may be the single best writer in fantasy and science fiction of his generation.

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.

Gene Wolfe is producing the most significant body of short fiction of any living writer in the science fiction genre.