Against the Lafayette Escadrille
- Eloi Silver Medal
- by Gene Wolfe
- Short Story
- Science Fiction
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “Against the Lafayette Escadrille” by Gene Wolfe, in Again, Dangerous Visions, edited by Harlan Ellison (Doubleday, March 1972).
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.”
The story puts me in the mood of Jack Finney’s wonderful non-time-travel story, “Home Alone.”
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- “Against the Lafayette Escadrille” by Gene Wolfe, in Again, Dangerous Visions, edited by Harlan Ellison (Doubleday, March 1972).