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->''the wild hyacinth blooms on the ground''

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->'''Though trodden beneath the shepherd's heel,'''
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* RewatchBonus: It's GeneWofe. What else could you expect?

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* RewatchBonus: It's GeneWofe.GeneWolfe. What else could you expect?
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The sequel series to to [[GeneWolfe Gene Wolfe's]] epic BookOfTheLongSun and concluding segment of the "Solar Cycle". After having left the Long Sun Whorl, the former inhabitants of the city-state Viron have colonized an archipelago of the water planet, Blue. After having lived away from Whorl for twenty years, Horn, who runs a paper mill with his wife, is tasked by his town's leaders to find the now-legendary leader, Patera Silk.

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The sequel series to to [[GeneWolfe Gene Wolfe's]] epic BookOfTheLongSun and concluding segment of the "Solar Cycle". After having left the Long Sun Whorl, the former inhabitants of the city-state Viron have colonized an archipelago of the water planet, Blue. After having lived away from Whorl for twenty years, Horn, who runs a paper mill with his wife, Nettle, is tasked by his town's leaders to find the now-legendary leader, Patera Silk.
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: As stated in on the ''BookOfTheLongSun'' page, that book had over a thousand named characters... Now take all those characters and add several hundred...
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* [[DoAndroidsDreamOfElectricSheep Do Inhumi Dream Of Electric Sheep]]

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* [[DoAndroidsDreamOfElectricSheep Do Inhumi Dream Of Electric Sheep]]Sheep?]]: One of the driving questions of the novel. Not only for the inhumi, but also for Babbie (the hus), Oreb (a nightchough) and Maytera Marble (a chem)
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* {{DoAndroidsDreamOfElectricSheep Do Inhumi Dream Of Electric Sheep}}

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* BloodstainedGlassWindows: The climactic battle with the inhumi occurs during [[spoiler: the wedding of Hide and Vadsig in the New Viron manteion.]]
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* UnusualEuphemism: "Lengthy absence, eh? One, um, expects the -hum- warm commerce."
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* MeaningfulName: Taken {{BeyondTheImpossible beyond the impossible.}} Every single name given has some king of double-meaning or pun- even characters whose names are only mentioned once.

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* MeaningfulName: Taken {{BeyondTheImpossible beyond the impossible.}} BeyondTheImpossible . Every single name given has some king of double-meaning or pun- even characters whose names are only mentioned once.
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Books in the series include (in order) ''On Blue's Waters'', ''In Green's Jungles'', and ''Return to the Whorl''.



Volumes included are: On Blue's Waters (1999), In Green's Jungle (2000), Return to the Whorl (2001)

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Volumes included are:
On Blue's Waters (1999)
In Green's Jungle (2000)
Return to the Whorl (2001)

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* Squick: Horn manually clearing the sewers beneath the City of Inhumi by removing the maggot-filled corpses with his sword. Ewwww...

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* Squick: {{Squick}}: Horn manually clearing the sewers beneath the City of Inhumi by removing the maggot-filled corpses with his sword. Ewwww...

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* IAmKnownByManyNames: The narrator, also known as Horn/Incanto/Rajan/[[spoiler: Silk.]]

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* IAmKnownByManyNames: IHaveManyNames: The narrator, also known as Horn/Incanto/Rajan/[[spoiler: Silk.]]
* ImAHumanitarian: [[spoiler: Auk and possibly Seawrack.]] Implied that [[spoiler: the colonists from Viron had to eat their own dead during the three-week landing period.
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* IAmKnownByManyNames: The narrator, also known as Horn/Incanto/Rajan/[[spoiler: Silk.]]
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* DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler: Krait dies in Horn's arms, and Jahlee dies in Nettle's.]]


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* MsFanservice: Jahlee and Seawrack


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* WHAMEpisode: [[spoiler: Jahlee's death]]
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* AstralProjection: How Horn can see the Neighbors.
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* [[spoiler: RapeAsDrama]]: To both Seawrack and Mora.



* ViewersAreGeniuses

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* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler: when Horn rapes Seawrack.]]
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* TheTrickster: The inhumi are arguably a race of tricksters.
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* ArcWords: "No cut!"

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* ObstructiveBureaucrat: The five judges who run Dorp

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* TalkingAnimal: Oreb, though he only speaks two syllables per phrase.

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* CallASmeerpARabbit: The "elephants" of Planet Blue apparently have two trunks.


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* PollyWantsAMicrophone: Oreb.
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The sequel series to to [[GeneWolfe Gene Wolfe's]] epic BookOfTheLongSun and concluding segment of the "Solar Cycle". After having left the Long Sun Whorl, the former inhabitants of the city-state Viron have colonized an archipelago of the water planet, Blue. After having lived away from Whorl for twenty years, Horn, who runs a paper mill with his wife, is tasked by his town's leaders to find the now-legendary leader, Patera Silk.

Being the sequel series to the BookOfTheLongSun and BookOfTheNewSun, unmarked spoilers abound. Beware!

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* BecomingTheMask: [[spoiler: Zig-zagged all over the place.]]
* CrapsackWorld: [[spoiler: Wijzer really wants to forget about ever visiting the Red Sun Whorl.]]
* [[spoiler: DependingOnTheWriter: In story. The way things are changes slightly depending on who is writing the narrative.]]
* HiddenInPlainSight: Everybody except the narrator knows where Silk is.
* EarthAllAlong: [[spoiler: Averted]]
* NamedByDemocracy: Played with.
* NarratorAllAlong
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: The five judges who run Dorp
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The inhumi are more like shapeshifting, flying leeches. They don't sparkle, either.
* FantasyCounterpartCulture
* TheOldCountry
* ReluctantRuler: The narrator starts the book out telling us he is being held against his will while simultaneously acting as a Solomon figure for his captors.
* UnreliableNarrator
* ViewersAreGeniuses

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