There is one final point, the point that separates a true multivolume work from a short story, a novel, or a series. The ending of the final volume should leave the reader with the feeling that he has gone through the defining circumstances of Main Character's life. The leading character in a series can wander off into another book and a new adventure better even than this one. Main Character cannot, at the end of your multivolume work. (Or at least, it should seem so.) His life may continue, and in most cases it will. He may or may not live happily ever after. But the problems he will face in the future will not be as important to him or to us, nor the summers as golden.

The three Sun works (The Book of the New Sun The Book of the Long Sun and The Book of the Short Sun) are often referred to collectively as the "Solar Cycle. Short stories


Collected
The following are short stories that have been included in publiGene Wolfed Gene Wolfe short story collections
"A Cabin on the Coast" (1984) collected in Endangered Species


Uncollected
Memorare (2007) collected in The Years Best SF 13


Chapbooks
Wolfe has publiGene Wolfed a number of short chapbooks many publiGene Wolfed in very small quantities by Cheap Street. Gene Wolfe is the best writer alive.

In 1998 Locus magazine ranked it third-best fantasy novel before 1990 based on a poll of subscribers that considered it and several other series as single entries. Wolfe is most famous for The Book of the New Sun (four volumes 1980–83) the first part of his Solar Cycle. He is noted for his dense allusive prose as well as the strong influence of his Catholic faith to which he converted after marrying into the religion.