Gene Wolfe may be the single best writer in fantasy and SF of his generation. From
The Book of the Long Sun
to
The Book of the New Sun
series, to his impressive short fiction oeuvre.
Innocents Aboard
gathers fantasy and horror stories from the last decade that have never before been in a Wolfe collection. Highlights from the twenty-two stories include "The Tree is my Hat," adventure and horror in the South Seas, "The Night Chough," a Long Sun story, "The Walking Sticks," a darkly humorous tale of a supernatural inheritance, and "Houston, 1943," lurid adventures in a dream that has no end. This is fantastic fiction at its best.