Review of “The Other Dead Man” (1988)
Gene Wolfe (writer).
Read in 2025.
Read in the collection Endangered Species (1989).
Disaster on a space ship.
One scene—the private chat in the bunk—is weak in this conventional far-future SF-horror story. Its conventionality is surprising coming from Wolfe, but he writes effectively here, even when he’s so close to the mainstream that he takes the lip-reading motif from 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).