The Book of the Short Sun is a trilogy by Gene Wolfe, comprising On Blue's Waters, In Green's Jungles, and Return to the Whorl. It is the sequel to Wolfe's tetralogy The Book of the Long Sun, and has connections to The Book of the New Sun. Collectively, these books are sometimes called Wolfe's "Solar Cycle." Books two and three were nominated for Locus Awards in 2001 and 2002.
The story, which is told by a narrator who identifies himself as Horn ...
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The Book of the Short Sun is a trilogy by Gene Wolfe, comprising On Blue's Waters, In Green's Jungles, and Return to the Whorl. It is the sequel to Wolfe's tetralogy The Book of the Long Sun, and has connections to The Book of the New Sun. Collectively, these books are sometimes called Wolfe's "Solar Cycle." Books two and three were nominated for Locus Awards in 2001 and 2002.
The story, which is told by a narrator who identifies himself as Horn (the ostensible author of The Book of the Long Sun), is an account of a search "on three worlds" for Silk, the hero of the Long Sun cycle. However, the narrator's adventures continue as he writes, so that the manuscript is both a memoir of his past and a journal of his present. As the story progresses, the narrator's identity becomes increasingly complex and elusive. The writing style changes with each book, and the story is highly nonlinear, with narrative threads from different times told in parallel and story events related out of order as...
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