On Blue's Waters

by Gene Wolfe

The first volume of the Book of the Short Sun series is set years after Wolfe's earlier series, the Book of the Long Sun. Here, the narrator of that earlier series, Horn, tells of his own experiences on a recently colonized planet called Blue.

Editions of On Blue's Waters

	ISBN 9780312872571	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Tor Books	Date 2000	Price $2.19	Very Good
	ISBN 9780312866143	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher St Martins Pr	Date 1999	Price $1.00	Used - Good

Publisher Notes

The first of three volumes that comprise "The Book of the Short Sun, On Blue's Waters" takes place on the planet of Blue, where Horn (narrator of a previous series by Wolfe) tells his own story.

Media Reviews

"All the narrative levels develop Wolfe's characteristic themes of the nature of sentient awareness, the place of the spiritual in the material world, and the pull between individual identity and unifying interrelationships: between one person and another, between the individual and the community, between the individual and the spiritual realm. Just as these themes are all related to one another, so they are developed at every level of the novel....This is the best novel I have read in a long time--satisfying emotionally, intellectually, and aesthetically. "

First Line

It is worthless, this old pen case I bought from Viron. It is nothing. You might go around the market all day and never find a single spirit who would trade you a fresh egg for it. Yet it holds...
Enough.
Yes, enough. I am sick of fancies.

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