"I have written to disclose myself to myself, and I am writing now because I will, I know, sometime read what I am now writing and wonder. Perhaps by the time I do, I will have solved the mystery of myself; or perhaps I will no longer care to know the solution."
-Number Five

My first Gene Wolfe. All 3 are great stories, "A Story" by Marsch being the weakest, but serving as a key in connecting them all together.

I was debating whether I should give this 4 or 5. After truly thinking about the novellas, the connections and then reading the afterword in my copy of the book (written by Pamela Sargent), I have to agree: this is a major work of fiction.

Wonderful.