Series
Book of the Short Sun
Gene Wolfe · 3 novels · 1999–2001
The Book of the Short Sun (1999–2001) is a series of three science fantasy novels or one three-volume novel by the American author Gene Wolfe. It continues The Book of the Long Sun (1993–1996): they share a narrator and Short Sun recounts a search for Silk, the Long Sun hero. The two works are set in the same universe as The Book of the New Sun series that Wolfe inaugurated in 1980 and the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB) catalogs all three as sub-series of the "Solar Cycle", along with some other writings.
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The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(1 edition)
Map
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By decade
- 1990s1
- 2000s2
Shape
3 novels
1 author · completed series
reads like:science fantasyquestsother star systemsfar futurechallengingadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 67% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book3 of 3 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- In Green's Junglesdarkest · most intense
- On Blue's Watersbrightest · calmest