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Starwater Strains

Starwater Strains

Starwater Strains is a collection of short stories by American writer Gene Wolfe. While his previous collection, Innocents Aboard, contained fantasy and horror stories, this one largely consists of science fiction.


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“He was proud, like all lonely men. Lonely men must be proud or die.”

"The Arimaspin Legacy" (1987), first appeared as a Winter Solstice chapbook from Cheap Street, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Starwater Strains (2005)
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“Very small, child, are the flying days of love, and men and women must catch them when they can, if they are to know love at all.”

"Empires of Foliage and Flower" (1987), first appeared as a limited edition chapbook from Cheap Street, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Starwater Strains (2005)
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“Every theory is true in some discipline.
The beauty of this is that it carries its own confirmation.”

"In Glory like Their Star", The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October/November 2001, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Starwater Strains (2005)
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“People who get eyeball arthritis see only what they're supposed to see, like that TV screen.”

"Hunter Lake", The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October/November 2003, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Starwater Strains (2005)
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