This volume brings together two of Wolfes most sought-after books, long out of print--Gene Wolfes Book of Days and The Castle of the Otter--and adds to them 39 essays collected here for the first time. n nThe Washington Post has called Gene Wolfe the finest writer the science fiction world has yet produced. n nThis volume, Castle of Days, joins together two of his rarest and most sought after works--Gene Wolfes 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.n