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Product Identifiers
PublisherDoherty Associates, LLC, Tom&Co
ISBN-100312873158
ISBN-139780312873158
eBay Product ID (ePID)1652048
Product Key Features
Book TitleIn Green's Jungles
Number of Pages384 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicScience Fiction / Action & Adventure, Science Fiction / General
Publication Year2000
FeaturesRevised
GenreFiction
AuthorGene Wolfe
Book SeriesBook of the Short Sun Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.3 in
Item Weight19 Oz
Item Length8.6 in
Item Width6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN00-023323
Dewey Edition21
Series Volume Number2
Dewey Decimal813/.54
Edition DescriptionRevised edition
SynopsisGene Wolfe's "In Green's Jungles" is the second volume, after "On 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 Jungles" is Wolfe's major new fiction, "The Book of the Short Sun", building toward a strange and seductive climax., Gene Wolfe's "In Green's Jungles" is the second volume, after "On 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 Jungles" is Wolfe's major new fiction, "The Book of the Short Sun," building toward a strange and seductive climax.
LC Classification NumberPS3573.O52I5 2000
