![]() Usually their stories are presented as manuscripts passed down to us over time through unknown channels. The finest of his novels, some of them published in several volumes, are invariably told in the first person by highly unreliable narrators, no longer children, ancient beyond their years. His full-length fiction plumbs the same depths, but expresses the soundings very differently. The tales assembled in The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories (1980) and The Wolfe Archipelago (1983) are exemplary. Seemingly innocent children who know us too well were frequently found in his early work, though he almost never wrote for younger readers. ![]() In Wolfe’s work, some very deep issues of identity and destiny secretly shape that dream. His shorter works – more than 200 stories – are very various and although they almost always tender some homage to sci-fi and its understanding of the world, at the same time they hint at the underside of that understanding, which is to say the underside of the American dream. ![]() The most significant awards bestowed upon Wolfe, honouring this double significance and climaxing in the Nebula Grand Master award for lifetime achievement in 2013, came very late in his career. ![]()
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