Gene Wolfe's Book of Days
Locus Award nominee 1982.
A collection of eighteen stories celebrating the 18 notable days of the American calender.
Contents:
- Date Due (a story hidden in the introduction)
- How the Whip Came Back
- Of Relays and Roses
- Paul's Treehouse
- St. Brandon
- Beautyland
- Car Sinister
- The Blue Mouse
- How I Lost the Second World War
- The Adopted Father
- Forlesen
- An Article About Hunting
- The Changeling
- Many Mansions
- Against the Lafayette Escadrille
- Three Million Square Miles
- The War Beneath the Tree
- La Befana
- Melting
Gene Wolfe's world is nothing like our own... It is bizarre and fantastical, grotesque and wonder-filled. It is a world of prowling houses, pregnant cars, space-age slaves and toys that are more than life-like. It is a world of shadows and unexceptional violence where man's technological fantasies have surpassed his dreams.
From this world comes a story for every holiday from New Year's Eve to Christmas Day – each marked by Gene Wolfe's unique imagination. And each, of course, about a world nothing like our own.
Gene Wolfe
Gene Rodman Wolfe (1931-2019) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He was noted for his dense, allusive prose as well as the strong influence of his Catholic faith. He was a prolific short-story writer and novelist and won many science fiction and fantasy literary awards.
Wolfe is best known for his Book of the New Sun series (four volumes, 1980–83), the first part of his "Solar Cycle". In 1998, Locus magazine ranked it the third-best fantasy novel published before 1990 based on a poll of subscribers that considered it and several other series as single entries.
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