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    Castle of Days: Short Fiction and Essays

    By Gene Wolfe

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    The Washington Post has called Gene Wolfe "the finest writer the science fiction world has yet produced."

    This volume, Castle of Days, joins together two of his rarest and most sought after works--Gene Wolfe's Book of Days and The 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.

    At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateMar 15, 1995
    ISBN9781429966245
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    Castle of Days: Short Fiction and Essays
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    Gene Wolfe

    Gene Wolfe (1931-2019) was the Nebula Award-winning author of The Book of the New Sun tetralogy in the Solar Cycle, as well as the World Fantasy Award winners The Shadow of the Torturer and Soldier of Sidon. He was also a prolific writer of distinguished short fiction, which has been collected in such award-winning volumes as Storeys from the Old Hotel and The Best of Gene Wolfe. A recipient of the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, the Edward E. Smith Memorial Award, and six Locus Awards, among many other honors, Wolfe was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2007, and named Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2012.

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    • 4/5
      Combination of two books: Book of ays and Castle of Otter + extra material. Both fiction and non-fiction part of this book is worth every penny you payed for it. Fiction part consists of short Wolfeish crazy and high quality speculative prose from Wolfes 70-ies opus (mainly). Non-fiction part give us rare look in maestros mind while he was writing The Book of the New Sun and his comments on others work.
    • 4/5
      Castle of Days is an odd book, though that goes without saying for Wolfe. It's actually an omnibus consisting of "Gene Wolfe's Book of Days," which is a collection of short stories; "The Castle of the Otter," which is a collection of essays written about the Book of the New Sun; and some letters and other writings which are unique to the book. Some of the short stories, such as "How I Lost the Second World War," "Forlesen," and "La Befana," are among Wolfe's finest, and several of the essays are enjoyable, but in general Mr. Wolfe isn't as good at writing about writing as some others. (Stephen King, for example.) It's worth reading, but it's not my favorite Wolfe.
    • 4/5
      + for hit, - for miss:- How the whip came back (1970)+ Of relays and roses (1970)+ Paul's treehouse (1969)+ St. Brandon (1975)- Beautyland (1973)- Car sinister (1970)+ The blue mouse (1971)+ How I lost the Second World War and helped turn back the German invasion (1973)- The adopted father (1980)+ Forlesen (1974)- An article about hunting (1973)+ The Changeling (1968)- Many mansions (1977)+ Against the Lafayette Escadrille (1972)+ Three million square miles (1971)+ The war beneath the tree (1979)- La Befana (1973)- Melting (1974)The remaining are essays; they are mostly +.