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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The Fifth Head Of Cerberus	Gene Wolfe	Bien loin de la Terre, deux planètes soeurs, Sainte-Anne et Sainte-Croix, ont été colonisées par des Français qui ont détruit la population indigène de la seconde. Des décennies plus tard, après que …	OL14871904W
Pirate Freedom	Gene Wolfe	A young priest fresh out of seminary, Father Christopher finds himself inexplicably swept back in time to the Golden Age of Piracy, where he finds himself caught up in the life of a buccaneer and tro…	OL14871929W
Shadow & Claw	Gene Wolfe	Shadow and Claw is an omnibus of the first two books of Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun. It chronicles the life and adventures of journeyman torturer Severian.	OL14871933W
Castleview	Gene Wolfe	Mysterious figures from Arthurian mythology intrude into the daily lives of a small town family in Illinois.	OL14871948W
The Wizard	Gene Wolfe	Young teen Able, previously transported to a magical world into the body of an adult hero, returns to Mythgarthr in possession of special powers that he has vowed he will not use in his service to th…	OL14871969W
Free Live Free	Gene Wolfe	A group of four down-on-their-luck strangers respond to a classified ad offering a strange bargain: live free of charge in an old man's house, and help him to prevent the city from having the buildin…	OL14871977W
The Shadow of the Torturer	Gene Wolfe	The Shadow of the Torturer is the first volume in the four-volume series, The Book of the New Sun. It is the tale of young Severian, an apprentice in the Guild of Torturers on the world called Urth, …	OL14871979W
Isaac Asimov's Wonders of the World	Ted Reynolds,Connie Willis,Harry Turtledove,Robert Silverberg,Rand B. Lee,Ted Reynolds,Gregory Benford,Isaac Asimov,Peter Payack,Joan D. Vinge,Barry B. Longyear,Gene Wolfe,Elizabeth A. Lynn,Kathleen Moloney	Lirios: A Tale of the Quintana Roo - novelette by James Tiptree, Jr. Exposures - short story by Gregory Benford For the Birds - short story by Isaac Asimov The Woman the Unicorn Loved - novelette …	OL14959632W
Speculations	Mack Reynolds,William K. Carlson,Roger Lovin,Joe L. Hensley,Robert Silverberg,Phyllis Gotlieb,Jack Williamson,Alan Dean Foster,Bill Pronzini,Isaac Asimov,Gene Wolfe,Zenna Henderson,R. A. Lafferty,Joanna Russ,Scott Baker,Barry N. Malzberg,Rachel Cosgrove Payes,Alice Laurance,Jacqueline Lichtenberg	Foreword: The Scope of Science Fiction - Isaac Asimov Nor Iron Bars a Cage - Roger Robert Lovin Surfeit - [Humanx Commonwealth] - Alan Dean Foster The Winds of Change - Isaac Asimov Harpist - …	OL17697544W
The Fantasy Hall of Fame [30 stories]	Margaret St. Clair,Anthony Boucher,H. L. Gold,Ted Chiang,Robert Bloch,Martin H. Greenberg,Jorge Luis Borges,Lucius Shepard,Harlan Ellison,Ambrose Bierce,H.P. Lovecraft,Avram Davidson,Robert Silverberg,Tanith Lee,Poul Anderson,Ray Bradbury,Theodore Sturgeon,Jack Vance,Peter S. Beagle,L. Sprague De Camp,C. L. Moore,Philip K. Dick,Edgar Allan Poe,Robert A. Heinlein,Fritz Leiber,Ursula K. Le Guin,James Blish,Michael Moorcock,Lord Dunsany,J. G. Ballard,Gene Wolfe,Manly Wade Wellman,Roger Zelazny,Cyril M. Kornbluth,R. A. Lafferty,Shirley Jackson,Robert E. Howard,Clifford D. Simak,A. Merritt,Clark Ashton Smith,Henry Kuttner	Trouble with water / H.L. Gold -- Nothing in the rules / L. Sprague de Camp -- Fruit of knowledge / C.L. Moore -- Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius / Jorge Luis Borges -- Compleat werewolf / Anthony…	OL1960531W
The land across	Gene Wolfe	"An American writer of travel guides in need of a new location chooses to travel to a small and obscure Eastern European country. The moment Grafton crosses the border he is in trouble, much more tha…	OL19974088W
A borrowed man	Gene Wolfe	It's perhaps a hundred years in the future and E. A. Smithe is "a clone who lives on a third-tier shelf in a public library, and his personality is an uploaded recording of a deceased mystery writer"…	OL20010438W
Isaac Asimovs Science Fiction Magazin 22. Folge	Dorothy Smith,Gerhard Hejk,Sydney J. Van Scyoc,Thomas Wylde,Scott R. Sanders,James Killus,Ursula K. Le Guin,Friedel Wahren,Isaac Asimov,Gene Wolfe	Auf den Gewinner - short story by Isaac Asimov (trans. of To the Victor 1982) Das Kindermädchen - novelette by Thomas Wylde (trans. of The Nanny 1983) Der Konstrukteur der wilden Tiere - short stor…	OL20104358W
The Dark Descent	Michael Shea,Walter De la Mare,Dennis Etchison,Robert Bloch,Fitz-James O'Brien,Edith Nesbit,Charles L. Grant,Richard Matheson,David Herbert Lawrence,Harlan Ellison,Edith Wharton,Henry James,Ambrose Bierce,Stephen King,Thomas M. Disch,William Faulkner,Ramsey Campbell,H.P. Lovecraft,Tanith Lee,Ray Bradbury,Theodore Sturgeon,Charles Dickens,Clive Barker,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Philip K. Dick,Edgar Allan Poe,Lucy Clifford,Fritz Leiber,Robert Hichens,John Collier,Joyce Carol Oates,Flannery O'Connor,Russell Kirk,Algernon Blackwood,Charlotte Perkins Gilman,Gene Wolfe,Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu,Manly Wade Wellman,David G. Hartwell,Robert Chambers,Shirley Jackson,Joanna Russ,Montague Rhodes James,Ivan Turguenev,Karl Edward Wagner,Oliver Onions,Robert Aickman	pt. 1. The color of evil. The reach / Stephen King -- Evening primrose / John Collier -- The ash-tree / M.R. James -- The new mother / Lucy Clifford -- There's a long, long trail a-winding / Russ…	OL2989350W
Nebula Winners Fourteen	Charles L. Grant,Vonda N. McIntyre,Frederik Pohl,L. Sprague De Camp,C. J. Cherryh,Edward Bryant,John Varley,Isaac Asimov,Gene Wolfe,Norman Spinrad	The Persistence of Vision - novella by John Varley Stone - short story by Edward Bryant A Glow of Candles, a Unicorn's Eye - novelette by Charles L. Grant Science Fiction: 1938 - essay by Isaac As…	OL60905W