The Fifth Head of Cerberus The Fifth Head of Cerberus The Fifth Head of Cerberus is the title of both a novella and a single-volume collection of three novellas, written by American science fiction and fantasy author Gene Wolfe, both published in 1972. The novella was included in the anthology "Nebula Award Stories Eight". The title of this collection of novellas is a play on words which refers to Cerberus a three-headed dog from Greek mythology which guarded the gate to the Greek underworld, Hades. In the first novella the protagonist explains that Cerberus represents his own family, its three heads being his father, aunt
What the Dog Saw statistics and its lack of technical grounding. "What the Dog Saw" debuted at #3 on the "New York Times" Bestseller List. It spent three weeks in the top 3 and a total of 16 weeks on the chart, appearing concurrently with Gladwell's previous book "Outliers". It was also an Amazon Top 25 seller for the month of November. "What the Dog Saw" was named to Bloomberg's top 50 business books of 2009. All of the articles in "What the Dog Saw" can be read for free on Gladwell's website. Part 1: "Obsessives, Pioneers, and other varieties of Minor Genius" Part