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.