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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Gene Wolfe's Book of Days | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Lincoln's Birthday: How the Whip Came Back | |
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| Valentine's Day: Of Relays and Roses | |
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| Arbor Day: Paul's Treehouse | |
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| St Patrick's Day: St. Brandon | |
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| Earth Day: Beautyland | |
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| Mother's Day: Car Sinister | |
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| Armed Forces Day: The Blue Mouse | |
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| Memorial Day: How I Lost the Second World War | |
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| Father's Day: The Adopted Father | |
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| Labor Day: Forlesen | |
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| Opening Day: An Article About Hunting | |
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| Homecoming Day: The Changeling | |
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| Halloween: Many Mansions | |
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| Armistice Day: Against the Lafayette Escadrille | |
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| Thanksgiving: Three Million Square Miles | |
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| Christmas Eve: The War Beneath the Tree | |
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| Christmas Day: La Befana | |
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| New Year's Eve: Melting | |
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| The Castle of the Otter | |
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| The Feast of Saint Catherine | |
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| Helioscope | |
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| Sun of Helioscope | |
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| Hands and Feet | |
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| Words Weird and Wonderful | |
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| Onomastics, the Study of Names | |
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| Cavalry in the Age of the Autarch | |
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| These Are the Jokes | |
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| The Rewards of Authorship | |
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| The Castle of the Otter | |
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| Beyond the Castle of the Otter | |
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| Castle of Days | |
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| Writers | |
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| Lone Wolfe | |
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| Peace of my Mind | |
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| Algis Budrys I | |
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| Algis Budrys II | |
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| The Outline of Sanity | |
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| From a Letter to Nancy Kress, September 1987 | |
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| Explaining Nancy Kress | |
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| Introduction for Episodes of the Argo | |
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| From a Letter to Ron Antonucci, June 1983 | |
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| From a Chain Letter to George R.R. Martin and Greg Benford, July 1982 | |
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| Nebula Awards Speech | |
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| Vunce Around der Momma's Kitchen | |
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| From the Desk of Gibner C. Merton | |
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| Writing | |
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| Where I Get My Ideas | |
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| An Idea That . . . | |
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| Four Letters | |
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| Sharon Baker, February 1983 | |
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| Patty Bowne, May 1983 | |
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| Sharon Butler, November 1983 | |
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| Ellen Kushner, April 1985 | |
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| Achieving Dramatic Scenes: The Cat in the Starfleet's Attic | |
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| The Writer's Tool Kit | |
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| A Few Points About Knife Throwing | |
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| Books | |
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| The Right of Things to Come | |
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| The Ethos of Elfland | |
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| How Science Will Conquer the World for Fantasy | |
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| From a House on the Borderland | |
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| Secrets of the Greeks | |
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| From a Letter to Larry McCaffery, October 1987 | |
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| Kipling's Influence | |
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| Where Castle? | |
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| Aussiecon Two Guest of Honor Speech | |
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| The Pirates of Florida and Other Implausibilities | |