The Changeling
Like the late Harold Ross of The New Yorker and most other editors, I am reluctant to print any story I don’t understand. “The Changeling” appears here, nevertheless.
In my book of critical essays, In Search of Wonder, I made a distinction between stories that make sense and those that mean something. I am unable to “make sense” out of this one—to make it add up neatly and come out even—but I strongly feel that it means something, just as Kafka’s The Trial or Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” does.
This haunting story is Gene Wolfe’s second for Orbit; his first was “Trip, Trap,” in Orbit 2.
Author: Wolfe Gene
Genre: Science Fiction
Number of pages: 16
Reading time: 16 min.
Formats: FB2, EPUB, PDF
