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Gene Wolfe

writer

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).

How I Lost the Second World War and Helped Turn Back the German Invasion

by Gene Wolfe
“How I Lost the Second World War and Helped Turn Back the German Invasion” by Gene Wolfe, in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, May 1973.

The Rubber Bend

by Gene Wolfe
“The Rubber Bend” by Gene Wolfe, in Universe 5, edited by Terry Carr (Random House, November 1974).

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The Urth of the New Sun

by Gene Wolfe
The Urth of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe (Gollancz, August 1987).

The Lost Pilgrim

by Gene Wolfe
Gene Wolfe has such subtle plots and such perfection of word choice that he lulls you into a story without your ever realizing that you are in a story—even his titles are perfection. In this story, an apparent time traveler finds himself on a journey with Greek gods and mortals, but cannot remember who he is or why he was sent to this far past.
I have been hoping to speak privately with Amphiareaws about Time’s enmity. I know that I will not be born for many years. I know also that I have traveled the wrong way through those many years to join our crew. Was that in violation of Time’s ordinances? If so, it would explain his displeasure; but if not, I must look elsewhere.
“The Lost Pilgrim” by Gene Wolfe, in The First Heroes: New Tales of the Bronze Age, edited by Noreen Doyle and Harry Turtledove (Tor Books, June 2004).
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