On Blue's waters
Volume One of 'The Book of the Short Sun' (Book of the Short Sun)
by Gene Wolfe · first published 1999
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Space hero Horn battles shapeshifting vampires who want to use humans as cattle. It happens on planet Blue where Horn is searching for the planet's missing leader. First volume in a trilogy.
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I found the first-person narration of On Blue’s Waters emotionally devastating. Wolfe endowed that narrator with so much pain, bitterness, regret, and loss. I got On Blue’s Waters as soon as it came out and was eager for the following volumes, but I must…
on “Gene Wolfe, 'magnificent' giant of science fiction, dies aged 87” ↗On Blue's Waters is a masterpiece. The narrative structure is temporally very complex, but coherent, and alternates between wistful contemplation of the past by the protagonist (often times about things that have not…
on “Gene Wolfe, 'magnificent' giant of science fiction, dies aged 87” ↗I read his "On Blue's Waters", without having read anything else of his before. A lot of the references in the book were completely mysterious to me (but would not have been had I read Book of the New Sun and Book of the Long Sun.…
on “Gene Wolfe Turned Science Fiction into High Art (2019)” ↗I do not think that the prose in On Blue's Waters was drab; I loved it. The sequels though were quite forgettable.
on “Gene Wolfe Turned Science Fiction into High Art (2019)” ↗