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SUMMARY: Gene Wolfe'sReturn to the Whorlis the third volume, afterOn Blue's WatersandIn Green's Jungles, of his ambitious SF trilogy The Book of the Short Sun . . . It is again narrated by Horn, who has embarked on a quest in search of the heroic leader Patera Silk. Horn has traveled from his home on the planet Blue, reached the mysterious planet Green, and visited the great starship, the Whorl and even, somehow, the distant planet Urth. But Horn's identity has become ambiguous, a complex question embedded in the story, whose telling is itself complex, shifting from place to place, present to past. Perhaps Horn and Silk are now one being.Return to the Whorlbrings Wolfe's major new fiction, The Book of the Short Sun, to a strange and seductive climax.

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Author

Gene Wolfe

Publisher

Tom Doherty Associates

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780312873646

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Science Fiction

Rating

4.27 / 5 (78 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14