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On Blue's Waters

66.7% complete
1999
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Interplanetary voyages - Fiction
Science Fiction
See 16
1 - Horn's Book
2 - Becalmed
3 - The Sibyl and the Sorceress
4 - The Tale of the Pajarocu
5 - The Thing  on the Green Plain
6 - Seawrack
7 - The Island
8 - The End
9 - Kraft
10 - Seawrack's Ring
11 - The Land of Fires
12 - War
13 - Brothers
14 - Pajarocu!
15 - The Last Sheets
16 - Northwest
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 Book of the Short Sun*
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Book of the Short Sun*   See series as if on a bookshelf
A series of novels by Gene Wolfe that takes place after Book of the Long Sun.

1) On Blue's Waters
2) In Green's Jungles
3) Return to the Whorl

 Solar Cycle
#10 of 12
Copyright © 1999 by Gene Wolfe
Respectfully dedicated to
Roy and Matt
It is worthless, this old pen case I brought from Viron.
No comments on file
Synopsis not on file
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Added: 14-Jun-2015
Last Updated: 14-Feb-2024

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 03-May-2022
Audible Studios
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Date Issued:
03-May-2022
Format:
Audiobook
Cover Price:
$21.70
Length:
13 hrs 21 min (382 pages)
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Internal ID:
43471
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ISBN:
Unknown
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
Jason Culp  - Narration
From audible.com:

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 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. But Horn is the only one who can locate the great leader Silk and convince him to return to Blue and lead them all to prosperity. So Horn sets sail in a small boat, on a long and difficult quest across the planet Blue in search of the now legendary Patera Silk. The story continues in In Green's Jungles and Return to the Whorl.

"By any standard, Wolfe's beautifully composed, meditative, thrilling, and tricky-beyond-belief 'science fantasy' is a work of the highest art." (The Washington Post Book World)

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