Island of Dr. Death and Other Stories and Other Stories

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Gene Wolfe: Island of Dr. Death and Other Stories and Other Stories (1997, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom)

English language

Published April 5, 1997 by Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom.

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978-1-4299-6680-1
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5 stars (1 review)

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Very good short stories

5 stars

The title of the collection and the titles of some of the stories are goofy wordplay—and it’s this surface silliness that put me off from reading it, if I am honest—but the work itself is beautiful and perverse and provocative.

“Alien Stones” and “Death of Dr. Island” and “Toy Theatre” are dense and beguiling, the sort of stuff that I liked most about Book of the New Sun and Fifth Head.

(“Three fingers” is goofy but fun; “Befana” just hammy.)