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ON BLUE'S WATERS is the start of a major new work by Gene Wolfe, the first of three volumes that comprise The Book of the Short Sun, which takes place in the years after Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. Horn, the narrator of the earlier work, now tells his own story.
4 de nov. de 2018 · Long Sun tells the story of an “augur” (priest) named Silk who has a vision telling him to start getting people off the ship and onto the two nearby habitable planets, named Blue and Green and orbiting a “short sun” rather than the “long” rod of light illuminating the interior of the Whorl. That the “short” sun is actually ...
I think it's worth reading especially to get to Book of the Short Sun, which is often considered top-tier Wolfe (although I disagree with those that's say it's better than BotNS). Note that New Sun can be considered standalone, but Short Sun requires reading Long Sun. And reading Long Sun but not Short Sun is some kind of special madness IMO.
6 de ene. de 2023 · The Book of the Short Sun. The Book of the Short Sun takes place in the years after Wolfe's four-volume Book of the Long Sun. Horn, the narrator of the earlier work, now tells his own story. Though life is hard on the newly settled planet of Blue, Horn and his family have made a decent life for themselves.
Sanity check for the Book of the Short Sun series. So, I just finished Return to the Whorl, and you have the big reveal about Silk at the end. I'm trying to pin down when Horn (or a mix of Horn and Silk) ends and where Silk begins in the trilogy. My initial hypothesis was that that time Hoof saw Silk instead of Horn in Urth when they went to ...
Short Sun was the hardest one of the bunch to read, at least for me, because I could feel what the main character was doing. I didn't understand what it was until the end, but what the protagonist is doing is so typical, so raw, so human, that even though I didn't know what he was doing consciously it hurt like hell to read.
