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Return to the Whorl

64.3% complete
2001
Unknown
Never (or unknown...)
Interplanetary voyages - Fiction
Science Fiction
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1764
 Book of the Short Sun*
#3 of 3
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
#12 of 12
Respectfully dedicated to
Teri and Al
We have been journeying by guess, and it is high time we admitted it.
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Added: 14-Jun-2015
Last Updated: 12-Jun-2024

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 12-Jun-2024
Audible Studios
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Date Issued:
12-Jun-2024
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Audiobook
Cover Price:
$29.95
Length:
15 hrs 52 min (418 pages)
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Internal ID:
43662
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ISBN:
Unknown
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
Jason Culp  - Narration
Gene Wolfe's Return to the Whorl is the third volume, after On Blue's Waters and In 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 Whorl brings Wolfe's major new fiction, The Book of the Short Sun, to a strange and seductive climax.
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©2001 Gene Wolfe ℗2022 Audible, Inc.
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12-Jun-2024
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