On Blue's Waters
novel 1999 The Book of the New Sun
Record
| First published | 1999 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780312866143 |
Synopsis
First volume of The Book of the Short Sun. The narrator Horn is tasked by the leaders of New Viron to find Caldé Silk and bring him home, setting off in a small boat toward a distant continent rumored to hold a working spacecraft.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Book of the New Sun
- Series: The Book of the Short Sun ; position 1 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Gene Wolfe
Notes
- From the series record (The Book of the Short Sun): Follows Horn (from the Long Sun trilogy) years later; the narrator visits 'the Red Sun Whorl' and meets a young Severian, explicitly connecting this trilogy to The Book of the New Sun's opening -- 'the events of that series...commence just as the events of this one are ending.' Registered as Expanded alongside Long Sun: same universe, but a separate storyline and protagonist from Severian's own Core Canon story.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series The Book of the Short Sun: position 1 of 3: next In Green's Jungles (2000)
Sources
← The Book of the New Sun dossier · All universes
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