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  • In Green’s Jungles

  • Book of the Short Sun, Book 2
  • By: Gene Wolfe
  • Narrated by: Jason Culp
  • Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (40 ratings)

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In Green’s Jungles

By: Gene Wolfe
Narrated by: Jason Culp
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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.

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. 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. 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. There, he led a band of mercenary soldiers, answered to the name of Rajan, and later became the ruler of a city state. He has also encountered the mysterious aliens, the Neighbors, who once inhabited both Blue and Green. He remembers a visit to Nessus, on Urth. At some point, he died. His personality now seemingly inhabits a different body, so that even his sons do not recognize him. And people mistake him for Silk, to whom he now bears a remarkable resemblance.

In Green's Jungles is Wolfe's major new fiction, part of The Book of the Short Sun, building toward a strange and seductive climax.

"Wolfe's narrative glows, rich and seductive as ever." (Kirkus Reviews)

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Of the three Short Sun novels, this would have to be my favorite, if only for chapter 19 alone which I consider the best single chapter of the entire Solar Cycle. Truly a masterpiece of emotion, magic and faith!

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Excellent narration of an awesome story.

So glad to hear these on audio format. Really works. Thanks for making this series available.

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