Innocents Aboard

Innocents Aboard
	First edition (publ. Tor Books); Cover art by René Magritte ; Le Château des Pyrénées (1949)
Author	Gene Wolfe
Genre	Fantasy ; Horror ;
Publisher	Tor Books
Publication date	2004
ISBN	978-0-7653-0790-3

Last updated January 19, 2026

Innocents Aboard is a 2004 short story collection by American science fiction and fantasy author Gene Wolfe.^[1] The stories are primarily fantasy or horror, not science-fiction. The title is an homage to Mark Twain's first book, The Innocents Abroad . The book was nominated for a Locus Award in 2005.^[2]

List of stories

The Tree Is My Hat
The Old Woman Whose Rolling Pin Is the Sun
The Friendship Light
Slow Children At Play
Under Hill
The Monday Man
The Waif
The Legend of Xi Cygnus
The Sailor Who Sailed After the Sun
How the Bishop Sailed to Inniskeen
Houston, 1943
A Fish Story
Wolfer
The Eleventh City
The Night Chough (related to The Book of the Long Sun )
The Wrapper
A Traveler in Desert Lands
The Walking Sticks
Queen
Pocketsful of Diamonds
Copperhead
The Lost Pilgrim

References

↑ "INNOCENTS ABOARD: New Fantasy Stories by Gene Wolfe". Publishers Weekly . June 14, 2004. Retrieved September 27, 2024.
↑ "The Locus Index to SF Awards: Locus Award Nominees List". Archived from the original on May 14, 2012. Retrieved August 24, 2009.

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[1] "INNOCENTS ABOARD: New Fantasy Stories by Gene Wolfe". Publishers Weekly . June 14, 2004. Retrieved September 27, 2024.

[2] "The Locus Index to SF Awards: Locus Award Nominees List". Archived from the original on May 14, 2012. Retrieved August 24, 2009.

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v t e Works by Gene Wolfe
The Book of the New Sun	The Shadow of the Torturer (1980) The Claw of the Conciliator (1981) The Sword of the Lictor (1981) The Citadel of the Autarch (1983) The Urth of the New Sun (1987)
The Book of the Long Sun	Nightside the Long Sun (1993) Lake of the Long Sun (1994) Caldé of the Long Sun (1994) Exodus from the Long Sun (1996)
The Book of the Short Sun	On Blue's Waters (1999) In Green's Jungles (2000) Return to the Whorl (2001)
The Soldier series	Soldier of the Mist (1986) Soldier of Arete (1989) Soldier of Sidon (2006)
The Wizard Knight	The Knight (2004) The Wizard (2004)
Stand-alone novels	Operation Ares (1970) The Fifth Head of Cerberus (1972) Peace (1975) The Devil in a Forest (1976) Free Live Free (1984) There Are Doors (1988) Castleview (1990) Pandora, By Holly Hollander (1990) Pirate Freedom (2007) An Evil Guest (2008) The Sorcerer's House (2010) Home Fires (2011) The Land Across (2013) A Borrowed Man (2015) Interlibrary Loan (2020)
Short story collections	The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories (1980) Gene Wolfe's Book of Days (1981) The Wolfe Archipelago (1983) Plan(e)t Engineering (1984) Bibliomen (1984) Storeys from the Old Hotel (1988) Endangered Species (1989) Castle of Days (1992) The Young Wolfe (1992) Strange Travelers (2000) Innocents Aboard (2004) Starwater Strains (2005) The Best of Gene Wolfe (2009)
Short stories/Novellas	"How I Lost the Second World War and Helped Turn Back the German Invasion" (1973) "The Death of Doctor Island" (1973) "Straw" (1975) "The Woman the Unicorn Loved" (1981) "A Cabin on the Coast" (1984) A Walking Tour of the Shambles (2002) "Memorare" (2007)
Fictional creations	Severian Ascian language

First edition (publ. Tor Books) Cover art by René Magritte Le Château des Pyrénées (1949)
Author	Gene Wolfe
Genre	Fantasy Horror
Publisher	Tor Books
Publication date	2004
ISBN	978-0-7653-0790-3