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| Acknowledgments | 7 | |
| I | Gene Wolfe's Book of Days | |
| Introduction | 13 | |
| Lincoln's Birthday: How the Whip Came Back | 16 | |
| Valentine's Day: Of Relays and Roses | 31 | |
| Arbor Day: Paul's Treehouse | 42 | |
| St Patrick's Day: St. Brandon | 50 | |
| Earth Day: Beautyland | 54 | |
| Mother's Day: Car Sinister | 59 | |
| Armed Forces Day: The Blue Mouse | 67 | |
| Memorial Day: How I Lost the Second World War | 79 | |
| Father's Day: The Adopted Father | 95 | |
| Labor Day: Forlesen | 104 | |
| Opening Day: An Article About Hunting | 150 | |
| Homecoming Day: The Changeling | 160 | |
| Halloween: Many Mansions | 171 | |
| Armistice Day: Against the Lafayette Escadrille | 181 | |
| Thanksgiving: Three Million Square Miles | 185 | |
| Christmas Eve: The War Beneath the Tree | 189 | |
| Christmas Day: La Befana | 195 | |
| New Year's Eve: Melting | 200 | |
| II | The Castle of the Otter | |
| The Feast of Saint Catherine | 211 | |
| Helioscope | 217 | |
| Sun of Helioscope | 223 | |
| Hands and Feet | 228 | |
| Words Weird and Wonderful | 234 | |
| Onomastics, the Study of Names | 252 | |
| Cavalry in the Age of the Autarch | 257 | |
| These Are the Jokes | 266 | |
| The Rewards of Authorship | 279 | |
| The Castle of the Otter | 290 | |
| Beyond the Castle of the Otter | 308 | |
| III | Castle of Days | |
| 1 | Writers | |
| 1 | Lone Wolfe | 315 |
| 2 | Peace of my Mind | 320 |
| 3 | Algis Budrys I | 325 |
| 4 | Algis Budrys II | 328 |
| 5 | The Outline of Sanity | 330 |
| 6 | From a Letter to Nancy Kress, September 1987 | 333 |
| 7 | Explaining Nancy Kress | 336 |
| 8 | Introduction for Episodes of the Argo | 339 |
| 9 | From a Letter to Ron Antonucci, June 1983 | 343 |
| 10 | From a Chain Letter to George R.R. Martin and Greg Benford, July 1982 | 344 |
| 11 | Nebula Awards Speech | 347 |
| 12 | Vunce Around der Momma's Kitchen | 349 |
| 13 | From the Desk of Gibner C. Merton | 351 |
| 2 | Writing | |
| 1 | Where I Get My Ideas | 361 |
| 2 | An Idea That . . . | 303 |
| 3 | Four Letters | 367 |
| Sharon Baker, February 1983 | ||
| Patty Bowne, May 1983 | ||
| Sharon Butler, November 1983 | ||
| Ellen Kushner, April 1985 | ||
| 4 | Achieving Dramatic Scenes: The Cat in the Starfleet's Attic | 373 |
| 5 | The Writer's Tool Kit | 377 |
| 6 | A Few Points About Knife Throwing | 381 |
| 3 | Books | |
| 1 | The Right of Things to Come | 389 |
| 2 | The Ethos of Elfland | 395 |
| 3 | How Science Will Conquer the World for Fantasy | 400 |
| 4 | From a House on the Borderland | 406 |
| 5 | Secrets of the Greeks | 415 |
| 6 | From a Letter to Larry McCaffery, October 1987 | 423 |
| 7 | Kipling's Influence | 425 |
| 8 | Where Castle? | 427 |
| 9 | Aussiecon Two Guest of Honor Speech | 429 |
| 10 | The Pirates of Florida and Other Implausibilities | 438 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
| WonderClub |
Andor Petras
reviewed Castle of Days on July 06, 2018
Castle of Days
Castle of days is basically two books combined in one book, the first book consists of lot of short stories where Wolfe packs lot of content in few pages, and the second book are essays and interviews, where Wolfe gives an insight into his writing process, and also goes in depth regarding his writing process, and also goes in depth regarding his whole process in writing of Book of new sun.
I definitely enjoyed the short stories in first part of the book, but got a bit bored reading second part, because Wolfe goes into a lot of details regarding the writing process for a person who wants to be writer, but for a person like me who is not interested to be a writer, I got bored reading the second part.
Excluding the second part, I really enjoyed the first part of the book, and some of the short stories in the first part of book are jam packed with content.
Some of the stories which I remember distinctly are
1. Of Relays and Roses
Here a company designs an indigenous algorithm where they capable of predicting a suitable women for any person, and what this leads to another business's which are involved in divorce or remarriage.
2. Car Sinister
Another leap of imagination by Wolfe where cars reproduce to produce cars, with twist at the end.
3. Forlesen
The biggest short story in this collection, and perhaps most interesting one this tells the robotic nature of the modern day corporate life.
Above are just few stories which I enjoyed from this collection.
I give this book 3/5 stars.
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