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Storeys from the Old Hotel

Storeys from the Old Hotel

Storeys from the Old Hotel is a short story collection by American science fiction author Gene Wolfe published in 1988. It won the World Fantasy Award for Best Collection.


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“They based their extrapolations on numbers. That worked as long as money, which is easily measured numerically, was the principle motivating force in human affairs. But as time progressed, human actions became responsive instead to a multitude of incommensurable vectors.”

"The Marvelous Brass Chessplaying Automaton", Universe 7 (1977), ed. Terry Carr, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Storeys from the Old Hotel (1988), Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, The Best of Gene Wolfe (2009)
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“No man has a home unless he is master of a place where he must please no one—a place where he can go and lock the door behind him.”

"Slaves of Silver", Galaxy, 1971, Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Storeys from the Old Hotel (1988)
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