![]() In Green's Jungles is Wolfe's major new fiction, The Book of the Short Sun, building toward a strange and seductive climax. And people mistake him for Silk, to whom he now bears a remarkable resemblance. ![]() His personality now seemingly inhabits a different body, so that even his sons do not recognize him. He has also encountered the mysterious aliens, the Neighbors, who once inhabited both Blue and Green. There, he led a band of mercenary soldiers, answered to the name of Rajan, and later became the ruler of a city state. 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. 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. 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. ![]() 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. ![]()
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