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Gene Wolfe's Book of Days

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Cover artist
  
Lawrence Ratzkin

Publication date
  
1981

ISBN
  
978-0-385-15991-3

Author
  
Gene Wolfe

Publisher
  
Doubleday

Language
  
English

Pages
  
182 pp

Originally published
  
1981

Genre
  
Science Fiction

Country
  
United States of America

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Media type
  
Print (hardcover and paperback)

Similar
  
Works by Gene Wolfe, Science Fiction books

Gene Wolfe's Book of Days is a short story collection by American science fiction author Gene Wolfe published in 1981 by Doubleday.

The stories within the collection are each paired with a holiday within the calendar year that is thematically linked to the content of the story. Thus, a story about the resurgence of slavery ("How the Whip Came Back") is dedicated to Lincoln's Birthday.

The material here was combined with The Castle of the Otter to make the volume Castle of Days.

The stories (and their respective holidays)

  • Date Due (No holiday assigned)
  • A story hidden in the introduction about a University student who steals books from his University Library.
  • "How the Whip Came Back" (Lincoln's Birthday)
  • "Of Relays and Roses" (Valentine's Day)
  • "Paul's Treehouse" (Arbor Day)
  • "St. Brandon" (St. Patrick's Day)
  • "Beautyland" (Earth Day)
  • "Car Sinister" (Mother's Day)
  • "The Blue Mouse" (Armed Forces Day)
  • "How I Lost the Second World War and Helped Turn Back the German Invasion" (Memorial Day)
  • "The Adopted Father" (Father's Day)
  • "Forlesen" (Labor Day)
  • "An Article About Hunting" (the first day of hunting season)
  • "The Changeling" (Homecoming Day)
  • "Many Mansions" (Halloween)
  • "Against the Lafayette Escadrille" (Armistice Day)
  • "Three Million Square Miles" (Thanksgiving)
  • "The War Beneath the Tree" (Christmas Eve)
  • "La Befana" (Christmas Day)
  • "Melting" (New Year's Eve)

    • References

    Gene Wolfe's Book of Days Wikipedia
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