The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Gene Wolfe
- First Published: 1980
- Type of Work: Stories
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—inner space
- Time of Work: Various
- Setting: Various, on Earth and other planets
- Genres: Short fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: Other worlds, Islands, Death or dying, Earth
- Locales: Earth, Fictional planets
The Plot
This collection contains fourteen stories of varying length, first published in magazines and anthologies in the 1970s. In the title story, a lonely boy on Settlers Island finds consolation for his fathers absence and his divorced mothers neglect. In a brilliant pastiche of classic science-fiction adventure tales, pulp adventure stories provide escape for Tackman, who imagines the characters entering his own life. At the climax, he discovers his mothers friend, Dr. Black, giving her treatment for an overdose of amphetamines. He heroically walks to the home of a distant...
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