An Article About Hunting

Publication(s)

• First publication
  • Saving Worlds, 1973
• Wolfe collection(s)
  • Gene Wolfe’s Book of Days (1981)
  • Castle of Days (1992)

Summary

A satirical story of a clueless reporter tagging along on a bear-hunt.

Analysis

• This appears to be another of Wolfe's ecological morality tales, along the lines of Beautyland and Three Million Square Miles.

Unresolved Questions

• Is the animal they are hunting really a bear as we think of bears? There may be hints in the text that suggest otherwise.
  • It seems to be an "ursus americanus" (though the reporter scrambles up the scientific names, of course). It may be a mutated one.

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