1gwendetenebre
"Wolf" by Michael Moorcock.
Discussion begins March 12, 2025.
First published in The Deep Fix (1963).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
https://isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?69437
SELECTED PRINT VERSIONS
The Time Dweller
Masterpieces of Terror and the Unknown
Earl Aubec and Other Stories
ONLINE VERSIONS
https://www.revolutionsf.com/fiction/wolf/01.html
ONLINE AUDIO VERSIONS
No online audio versions found to date.
MISCELLANY
https://stormbringer.fandom.com/wiki/Aubec_of_Malador
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Moorcock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpTV-w_TbbY
https://tinyurl.com/3hcv9rda
Discussion begins March 12, 2025.
First published in The Deep Fix (1963).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
https://isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?69437
SELECTED PRINT VERSIONS
The Time Dweller
Masterpieces of Terror and the Unknown
Earl Aubec and Other Stories
ONLINE VERSIONS
https://www.revolutionsf.com/fiction/wolf/01.html
ONLINE AUDIO VERSIONS
No online audio versions found to date.
MISCELLANY
https://stormbringer.fandom.com/wiki/Aubec_of_Malador
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Moorcock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpTV-w_TbbY
https://tinyurl.com/3hcv9rda
2AndreasJ
Our protagonist is pretty adept at blaming his victims.
But is he just an unpleasant guy with a poor grasp of reality, or is he in some not wholly metaphorical sense a "wolf"?
But is he just an unpleasant guy with a poor grasp of reality, or is he in some not wholly metaphorical sense a "wolf"?
4RandyStafford
Wasn't impressed by this one.
The whole "who owns this town" seemed either pointless or poorly incorporated into the story.
The whole "who owns this town" seemed either pointless or poorly incorporated into the story.
5AndreasJ
>4 RandyStafford:
Agreed. I wondered if it was supposed to indicate lupine thought-patterns, on the supposition that town owner = local alpha.
Agreed. I wondered if it was supposed to indicate lupine thought-patterns, on the supposition that town owner = local alpha.
6housefulofpaper
I'd tentatively suggest that this story is part of a 1960s investigation of and anxiety about male violence. It took in ideas about the Outsider and personal freedom that is different from (or at least has different emphases from) the current concerns about male violence.
I think the protagonist is "an unpleasant guy with a poor grasp of reality" murdering his way though mid-20th Century Europe or North America, but in his head is in a Sword & Sorcery/Heroic Fantasy world.
I think the protagonist is "an unpleasant guy with a poor grasp of reality" murdering his way though mid-20th Century Europe or North America, but in his head is in a Sword & Sorcery/Heroic Fantasy world.
