# The Castle of the Otter *The SF-Lovers list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 13 Dec 1985* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Linda Wald *13 Dec 1985, 20:16* The Castle of the Otter (by Gene Wolfe) is subtitled "a book about The Book of the New Sun". A report in Locus mistakenly said that the fourth book in The Book of the New Sun was to be titled The Castle of the Otter, and Wolfe liked the name enough to write a book to fit. In the book, Wolfe talks about how the tetrology was written, and why it has the form it does. He tells where the poems and all thoses weird words are from, and what they mean. He even has each of the main characters (well, all that were willing to) stand up and tell a joke. I found it delightful to read, for Wolfe has a wicked sense of humor. It is available from the Science Fiction Book Club. If you loved the tetrology , you'll probably enjoy this. If you haven't read the tetrology, go and get The Shadow of the Torturer (it's the first book). Linda Wald ---