Castle of Days

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 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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Castle of Days
IGENE WOLFE'S BOOK OF DAYSIntroductionPublishers tell me that no one reads introductions. I do not believe them, since I read the things myself, but I am willing to admit that there is probably some truth behind the myth--in other words, that you, who have read these few lines, are a member of a select minority.I do not quite see how I can repay you. You already know, I hope, that the book you hold is a collection of short stories. The jacket will have told you that I wrote them. (And, yes, I wrote them. My name really is Gene Wolfe, and I am an actual person.

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"Here are glamour and magic to stretch the mind and break the heart."--Steven Brust

"A treasure trove....Aficionados will find this a marvelous and fascinating collection, and readers new to Gene Wolfe should find this a welcome place to enter."--Fort Worth Star-Telegram

"Castle of Days is also a flight of yesterday, a twinkle of todays, and a promise of tomorrows. Charming and entertaining from drawbridge to tower-tip."--Roger Zelazny

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Gene Wolfe has been called "the finest writer the science fiction world has yet produced" by The Washington Post. A former engineer, he has written numerous books and won a variety of awards for his SF writing.

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Castle of Days
Gene Wolfe

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Tom Doherty Associates
Orb Books
March 1995
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ISBN: 9780312890421
ISBN10: 0312890427
5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches, 448 pages
$20.99
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March 1995
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