Return to the Whorl: The Third Volume of The Book of the Short Sun (Book of the Long Sun)

Gene Wolfes Return to the Whorl is the third volume after On Blues Waters and In Greens 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 Horns 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 Wolfes major new fiction The Book of the Short Sun to a strange and seductive climax.