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Grave, cool, open-ended and contemplative.
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- resolvedopen-ended
- contemplativerelentless
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Gene Wolfe
- First published
- 1981
- Pages
- 246
- Publisher
- Random House New Zealand Ltd, Doubleday
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780099392309
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Gene Wolfe was born in Texas. After dropping out from Texas A&M University, he served in the Korean War, and later graduated from the University of Houston. He worked first as an engineer, notably designing part of the machine that produces Pringles potatoe chips, and later as the editor of a professional engineering magazine, *Plant Engineering*. Wolfe was a prolific writer, publishing over 30 novels and hundreds of short stories in his life. He was known for the complexity of his narratives and the depth of his characters, frequently using unreliable or fallible narrators to enhance his thematic focus on memory. His work explores topics of morality, often through the lens of his Catholic f
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