In Green's Jungles The Second Volume of 'The Book of the Short Sun' [Paperback]

Gene Wolfe'sIn Green's Junglesis the second volume, afterOn Blue's Waters, of his ambitious SF trilogy,The Book of the Short Sun.

It is again narrated by Horn, who has embarked on a quest from his home on the planet Blue in search of the heroic leader Patera Silk. Now 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. Horn recalls visiting the Whorl, the enormous spacecraft in orbit that brought the settlers from Urth, and going thence to the planet Green, home of the blood-drinking alien inhumi. There, he led a band of mercenary soldiers, answered to the name of Rajan, and later became the ruler of a city state. He has also encountered the mysterious aliens, the Neighbors, who once inhabited both Blue and Green. He remembers a visit to Nessus, on Urth. At some point, he died. His personality now seemingly inhabits a different body, so that even his sons do not recognize him. And people mistake him for Silk, to whom he now bears a remarkable resemblance.

In Green's Junglesis Wolfe's major new fiction,The Book of the Short Sun, building toward a strange and seductive climax.

Wolfe's narrative glows, rich and seductive as ever. --Kirkus Reviews

Gene Wolfe (1931-2019)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 winnersThe Shadow of the TorturerandSoldier of Sidon. He was also a prolific writer of distinguished short fiction, which has been collected in such award-winning volumes asStoreys from the Old HotelandThe Best of Gene Wolfe.

A recipient of the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, the Edward E. Smith Memorial Award, and sixLocusAwards, among many other honors, Wolfe was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2007, and named Gral³"