Castle of Days

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Macmillan, Mar 15, 1995 - Fiction - 447 pages

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.

 

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Contents

I
7
II
11
IV
13
V
16
VI
31
VII
42
VIII
50
IX
54
XXXVII
311
XXXVIII
313
XXXIX
315
XL
320
XLI
325
XLII
328
XLIII
330
XLIV
333

X
59
XI
67
XII
79
XIII
95
XIV
104
XV
150
XVII
160
XVIII
171
XIX
181
XX
185
XXII
189
XXIII
195
XXIV
200
XXV
205
XXVI
211
XXVII
217
XXVIII
223
XXIX
228
XXX
234
XXXI
252
XXXII
257
XXXIII
266
XXXIV
279
XXXV
290
XXXVI
308
XLV
336
XLVI
339
XLVII
343
XLVIII
344
XLIX
347
L
349
LI
351
LII
361
LIII
363
LIV
367
LV
373
LVI
377
LVII
381
LVIII
389
LIX
395
LX
400
LXIII
406
LXIV
415
LXV
423
LXVI
425
LXVII
427
LXVIII
429
LXXI
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Copyright

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Castle of Days: Short Fiction and Essays
Gene Wolfe
Limited preview - 1995

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About the author (1995)

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.

Bibliographic information

TitleCastle of Days
A Tom Doherty Associates book
AuthorGene Wolfe
Editionreprint, revised
PublisherMacmillan, 1995
ISBN0312890427, 9780312890421
Length447 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Fiction / Science Fiction / Collections & Anthologies
Fiction / Science Fiction / General
Fiction / Short Stories (single author)
Literary Collections / General
Literary Criticism / Science Fiction & Fantasy
  
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