On Blue's Waters: Volume One of 'The Book of the Short Sun' (Book of the Short Sun, 1)

Great book. General plot is easy enough to follow along but some of the things added to it aren't. Just have to keep reading and wait for the resolution.

I thoroughly enjoy going to the world that Gene Wolfe has created. The narrative tends to wander off at times, and the story jumps forward and backward in time, so that you have to slowly piece together the story. The author does not spoon feed his vision to the reader. This is my second reading of this series, and it is a lot easier to comprehend the second time around. Sometimes slow, but totally worth the effort.

I haven't read it (Its GW though, I doubt I'll be disappointed), but I wanted to mention that the copy I received was NOT marked as printed by Amazon, as others have noted, and seems to be the official version, and it good condition too. So if you're worried about that, in my case it was fine. Same for the other two volumes.

Part of Gene Wolfe's spectacular "Solar Cycle" of books. Like the rest of this series (a word which suggests a lesser body of work than this) it can be read on many levels. There is a surface layer of fine story telling. Dig past that and there are layers of profound spiritual and philosophical depth. Search up Neil Gaiman's guide to reading Gene Wolfe for a few hints of this. And, yes, Neil Freeking Gaiman wrote an essay on how to read Gene Wolfe. It's that big a deal.All of the books may stand well alone, but the continuity is worth starting from the beginning. Book of the Long Sun is the start of this sequence.

Usual Gene Wolfe, intrcate, slow and steady character development. Just as you think nyou have the plot figured out he throws you a curve, or two, or three. always enjoyable, always deeper than the obvoiuos story line. Great writer and great story

Wolfe knows how to spin an engaging web. I've re-read The Book of the New Sun several times over the past thirty years or so. Still the best. The Book of the Long Sun was also engaging and, as you would expect, well written with an intricate and detailed story line. I don't know how I failed to notice The Book of the Short Sun when it came out. Kids, work, whatever... but I was delighted to stumble across it and am delighted to see that Wolfe hasn't lost his touch.

The book was good and I recommend it. Kindle version had lots of typos. OCR issues but a simple find and replace would fix most of them. I wish Amazon would give kindle app the option of reporting them while reading.

In this latest work, the first volume of the Book of the Short Sun, Gene Wolfe plays a twisting narrative game in which appearances are never what they seem. Allusion to mythology and theology abound, and the reader is always challenged in finding how the Book of the Short Sun will relate to his previous works. Unlike the Book of the Long Sun's protagonist Patera Silk, the narrator here is no saint. In fact, it is very difficult for the reader to justify some of Horn's actions. But that is where Wolfe's superb characterization comes in, because Horn seems a real person, and he does bad things and makes faulty decisions. Numerous questions are raised, and left unanswered in this book, which is understandable because it is merely the first book of a three-volume series. I eagerly await the arrival of the next volume.

As another reviewer noted, this paperback edition doesn't appear to be from the actual publisher, rather it's Print-on-Demand, printed and fulfilled by Amazon themselves.Aside from the "Printed by Amazon" note at the back, the immediate giveaway is the wavy "body", and the way in which the cover and pages curl up. The cover in particular is already starting to curl away from the main book. Also the cover text and artwork is slightly blurred. The print quality inside isn't great either.As with the other reviewer, I suspect this must be a bootleg copy. Probably not instigated by Amazon themselves, but by someone who's set up a CreateSpace PoD account and given their publisher name as "Tor Books". Sneaky!Either that, or Tor themselves have bizarrely signed a deal with Amazon to fulfill out-of-print titles as wavy PoD print-outs for them. Doubtful, but if that's the case, the nature of what you're buying really should be stated in the book's description.I've attached a photo of the book taken before I return it....I've given 5 stars so that the review doesn't get buried - and I know the novel itself is worth 5 stars! Just avoid this edition, as the physical quality is bad, and it does seem like a scammy dishonest money-grab by someone.

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Arrived on times and well packaged. It does the job perfectly. Thanks.

The only down part to this book is that it repeatedly refers back to what happened in the previous volumes - The Book of the Long Sun. These books are not available for the Kindle and I do not want to buy the paper version.

Love Gene Wolf. As advertised and delivered on time!