“Experience is a wonderful teacher, but one whose lessons come too late.”

—  Gene Wolfe

Volume 2: In Green's Jungles (2000), Ch. 1
Fiction, The Book of the Short Sun (1999–2001)

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American science fiction and fantasy writer 1931–2019

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