（外文电子版资料）Wolfe, Gene - Seven American nights.pdfVIP

file:///F|/rah/Gene%20Wolfe/Wolfe%20Seven%20American%20Nights.txt Version 0.5 dtd 013100 SEVEN AMERICAN NIGHTS* Gene Wolfe Gene Wolfe is a solid and substantial Midwesterner who Is easy to like as a person, and Impossible to fault as a writer. He has one flaw He doesnt write enough. Particularly, he doesnt write enough novellas-a form which, some would hold, Is the Ideal length for a science-fiction story, and which few persons have performed in more successfully than Gene Wolfe. His the Fifth Head of Cerberus proved that a few years ago, and the statement Is reconfirmed with the present example, Seven American Nights. Esteemed and Learned Madame: As I last wrote you, it appears to me likely that your son Nadan (may Allah preserve him!) has left the old capital and traveled-of his own will or anothers-north into the region about the Bay of Delaware. My conjecture is now confirmed by the discovery in those regions of the notebook I enclose. It is not of American manufacture, as you see; and though it holds only the records of a single week, several suggestive items therein provide us new reason to hope. I have photocopied the contents to guide me in my investigations: but I am alert to the probability that you, madame, with your superior knowledge of the young man we seek, may discover implications I have overlooked. Should that be the case, I urge you to write me at once. Though I hesitate to mention it in connection with so encouraging a finding, your most recently due remission has not yet arrived. I assume that this tardiness results from the procrastination of the mails, which is here truly abominable. I must warn you, however, *Runner-up for Nebula, for Best Novella of 1978. that I shall be forced to discontinue the search unless funds sufficient for my expenses are forthcoming before the advent of winter. With inexpressible respect, Hassan Kerbelai Here I am at last! After twelve mortal days