Against the Lafayette Escadrille
by Gene Wolfe
I’m a little surprised at how much I am enjoying Gene Wolfe’s stories. This is a
fantasy of a man who builds an exact replica of a Fokker triplane; then, one day on a
flight, he sees a beautiful girl in a vintage balloon, an event that seems explicable
only via time travel.
The story puts me in the mood of Jack Finney’s wonderful non-time-travel story, “Home Alone.”
“Against the Lafayette Escadrille” by Gene Wolfe, in
Again, Dangerous Visions, edited by Harlan Ellison (Doubleday, March
1972).