Return to the Whorl - (Book of the Short Sun) by Gene Wolfe (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"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"--P. [4] of cover.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>Gene Wolfe</b>'s <i>Return to the Whorl</i> is the third volume, after<i> On Blue's Waters </i>and<i> In Green's Jungles</i>, 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. <i>Return to the Whorl</i> brings Wolfe's major new fiction, The Book of the Short Sun, to a strange and seductive climax.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Astonishing literary brilliance." --<i>Interzone</i> <p/>"Sentence by sentence, Wolfe is as fine a writer as science fiction has produced. He demands a lot from his readers. It is worth meeting him more than halfway." --<i>The New York Times Book Review</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Gene Wolfe (1931-2019)</b> was the Nebula Award-winning author of The Book of the New Sun tetralogy in the Solar Cycle, as well as the World Fantasy Award winners <i>The Shadow of the Torturer</i> and <i>Soldier of Sidon</i>. He was also a prolific writer of distinguished short fiction, which has been collected in such award-winning volumes as <i>Storeys from the Old Hotel</i> and <i>The Best of Gene Wolfe</i>. <p/><br>A recipient of the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, the Edward E. Smith Memorial Award, and six <i>Locus</i> Awards, among many other honors, Wolfe was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2007, and named Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2012.</p>
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