Castle of Days

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ISBN: 9780312852092 | 0312852096
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 12/1/1992

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The Washington Posthas called Gene Wolfe "the finest writer the science fiction world has yet produced." This volume joins together two of his rarest and most sought after works--Gene Wolfe'sBook of DaysandThe Castle of the Otter--and add thirty-nine short essays collected here for the first time, to fashion a rich and engrossing architecture of wonder.

Acknowledgments	p. 7
Gene Wolfe's Book of Days
Introduction	p. 13
Lincoln's Birthday: How the Whip Came Back	p. 16
Valentine's Day: Of Relays and Roses	p. 31
Arbor Day: Paul's Treehouse	p. 42
St Patrick's Day: St. Brandon	p. 50
Earth Day: Beautyland	p. 54
Mother's Day: Car Sinister	p. 59
Armed Forces Day: The Blue Mouse	p. 67
Memorial Day: How I Lost the Second World War	p. 79
Father's Day: The Adopted Father	p. 95
Labor Day: Forlesen	p. 104
Opening Day: An Article About Hunting	p. 150
Homecoming Day: The Changeling	p. 160
Halloween: Many Mansions	p. 171
Armistice Day: Against the Lafayette Escadrille	p. 181
Thanksgiving: Three Million Square Miles	p. 185
Christmas Eve: The War Beneath the Tree	p. 189
Christmas Day: La Befana	p. 195
New Year's Eve: Melting	p. 200
The Castle of the Otter
The Feast of Saint Catherine	p. 211
Helioscope	p. 217
Sun of Helioscope	p. 223
Hands and Feet	p. 228
Words Weird and Wonderful	p. 234
Onomastics, the Study of Names	p. 252
Cavalry in the Age of the Autarch	p. 257
These Are the Jokes	p. 266
The Rewards of Authorship	p. 279
The Castle of the Otter	p. 290
Beyond the Castle of the Otter	p. 308
Castle of Days
Writers
Lone Wolfe	p. 315
Peace of my Mind	p. 320
Algis Budrys I	p. 325
Algis Budrys II	p. 328
The Outline of Sanity	p. 330
From a Letter to Nancy Kress, September 1987	p. 333
Explaining Nancy Kress	p. 336
Introduction for Episodes of the Argo	p. 339
From a Letter to Ron Antonucci, June 1983	p. 343
From a Chain Letter to George R.R. Martin and Greg Benford, July 1982	p. 344
Nebula Awards Speech	p. 347
Vunce Around der Momma's Kitchen	p. 349
From the Desk of Gibner C. Merton	p. 351
Writing
Where I Get My Ideas	p. 361
An Idea That . . .	p. 303
Four Letters	p. 367
Sharon Baker, February 1983
Patty Bowne, May 1983
Sharon Butler, November 1983
Ellen Kushner, April 1985
Achieving Dramatic Scenes: The Cat in the Starfleet's Attic	p. 373
The Writer's Tool Kit	p. 377
A Few Points About Knife Throwing	p. 381
Books
The Right of Things to Come	p. 389
The Ethos of Elfland	p. 395
How Science Will Conquer the World for Fantasy	p. 400
From a House on the Borderland	p. 406
Secrets of the Greeks	p. 415
From a Letter to Larry McCaffery, October 1987	p. 423
Kipling's Influence	p. 425
Where Castle?	p. 427
Aussiecon Two Guest of Honor Speech	p. 429
The Pirates of Florida and Other Implausibilities	p. 438
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