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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.”

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"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.”

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"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.”

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"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.”

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