Innocents Aboard
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Innocents Aboard is a short story collection by American
science fiction
and fantasy
author Gene Wolfe
published in 2004. The stories are primarily fantasy or horror, not science-fiction. The title is an homage to Mark Twain
's first book, The Innocents Abroad.
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science fiction
Science fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
and fantasy
Fantasy
Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common...
author Gene Wolfe
Gene Wolfe
Gene Wolfe is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He is noted for his dense, allusive prose as well as the strong influence of his Catholic faith, to which he converted after marrying into the religion. He is a prolific short story writer and a novelist, and has won many awards in the...
published in 2004. The stories are primarily fantasy or horror, not science-fiction. The title is an homage to Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens , better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist...
's first book, The Innocents Abroad.
List of stories
- The Tree Is My Hat
- The Old Woman Whose Rolling Pin Is the Sun
- The Friendship Light
- Slow Children At Play
- Under Hill
- The Monday Man
- The Waif
- The Legend of Xi Cygnus
- The Sailor Who Sailed After the Sun
- How the Bishop Sailed to Inniskeen
- Houston, 1943
- A Fish Story
- Wolfer
- The Eleventh City
- The Night Chough (related to The Book of the Long SunThe Book of the Long SunThe Book of the Long Sun is a tetralogy by Gene Wolfe, comprising Nightside of the Long Sun, Lake of the Long Sun, Caldé of the Long Sun, and Exodus from the Long Sun. The first two volumes are published together as Litany of the Long Sun and the last two as Epiphany of the Long Sun...
) - The Wrapper
- A Traveler in Desert Lands
- The Walking Sticks
- Queen
- Pocketsful of Diamonds
- Copperhead
- The Lost Pilgrim