Review of “All the Hues of Hell” (1987)
Gene Wolfe (writer).
Read in 2025.
Read in the collection Endangered Species (1989).
The epistemological element in this case does not feel like Wolfe’s occasional earlier tributes to Philip K. Dick. It feels more fresh, as if Wolfe could somehow have anticipated the culture of silos and rabbit holes that the popularization of the Internet would bring a decade later.