Whereas the former series was set on the decadent planet Urth, the latter took place within the Whorl, a hollowed-out asteroid whose inhabitants knew nothing of the universe outside their failing world. Therese Littletonįrom Publishers WeeklyIn 1980, Wolfe published The Shadow of the Torturer, the first volume in his now classic Book of the New Sun, which was eventually followed by his much-praised Book of the Long Sun sequence. Is he the warrior king Rajan, or is he something entirely new, formed by the strange places and people around him into a savior of worlds? Identity, love, and faith weave through the themes of In Green's Jungles, and Wolfe has added another masterpiece to a shelf full of them. So who is Horn? Has he become Patera Silk-it seems so, for people begin mistaking him for the heroic leader. I can send your spirit into someone else, into someone whose own spirit is dying.' I can do this for you, however, if you desire it. she said, 'I cannot make you well again, and if I could you would still be in this place. Through the ring a Neighbor saw him, and she came to him in his agony. Tantalizing story details drip slowly from Wolfe's pen: In fact, Horn may not be himself at all anymore. As Horn recounts his adventures, his own identity becomes muddled, and we find out his interactions with the vampiric inhumi of Green and the strange alien Neighbors were deeper than we knew. In Green's Jungles follows narrator Horn as he voyages to the planet Green (Blue's companion) and to the abandoned generational starship known as the Whorl in search of the godlike Patera Silk. It is by no means necessary to start with his other series, In Green's Jungles is the middle book of Wolfe's opus trilogy, The Book of the Short Sun (the first is _). His complex, multilayered narratives, untrustworthy narrators, and puzzle-box characters send those of us who like that sort of thing into paroxysms of thrilling speculation, re-reading, and just plain guessing what it all means. “ ReviewGene Wolfe has stymied and delighted smart science fiction readers for years.

In Green's Jungles by Gene Wolfe