History Literature / BookOfTheShortSun

* BecomingTheMask: [[spoiler: Zig-zagged all over the place.]]

* EarthAllAlong: [[spoiler: Averted]]

* MsFanservice: Jahlee and Seawrack
* NamedByDemocracy: Played with.
* NarratorAllAlong

* FantasyCounterpartCulture
* TheOldCountry

* PollyWantsAMicrophone: Oreb.

* UnreliableNarrator

* TheVamp: Jahlee
* ViewersAreGeniuses
* WHAMEpisode: [[spoiler: Jahlee's death]]

* SelectiveObliviousness: Taken to the nth degree. The narrator is oblivious to the fact that he is who everyone around him thinks and tells him he is (not a spoiler, this is chapter 1). The author has had to take great care to reveal its extent bit by bit to preserve the reader's suspension of disbelief; and does this so well that it engenders Selective Obliviousness in the reader, who starts to go along with the pretence that Silk is really Horn. It doesn't matter to us that the narrator mentions Horn being fatally wounded earlier on another planet, he says he is Horn so he jolly must be Horn.

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* EldritchAbomination: The Mother, Abaia, and Erebus are all part of a race of EldritchAbominations.

The sequel series to to [[GeneWolfe Gene Wolfe's]] epic ''Literature/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 Patera Silk.

* GenreBusting: Which is why it is known under the moniker of "speculative fiction". Part science-fiction, part fantasy, part memoir, part metaphysical tract, part family drama... all GeneWolfe.

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 Patera Silk.

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

* LateArrivalSpoiler: Not only will ''Short Sun'' spoil major plot points of the BookOfTheLongSun if you begin reading it without having read the the prequel, it will also make absolutely no sense.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: As stated on the ''BookOfTheLongSun'' page, that book had over a thousand named characters... Now take all those characters and add several hundred...

* ContemptibleCover : The cover of On Blue's Waters features an [[Egregious egregiously]] naked Seawrack.

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

* RewatchBonus: It's GeneWolfe. What else could you expect?

* 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...

* SpiritualSuccessor: It's a lot like TheOdyssey... but in a speculative fiction setting

* MeaningfulName: Taken BeyondTheImpossible . Every single name given has some king of double-meaning or pun- even characters whose names are only mentioned once.

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.

Once the narrator embarks on this quest, his identity becomes more and more ambiguous. He recounts his travels on the seas of the planet Blue, to the forested ruins of the Vanished People on Green, to the Whorl, the generation starship that he used to call home, and the voyage back to his wife and family in New Viron.

Once the narrator embarks on this quest, his identity becomes more and more ambiguous. He recounts his travels on the seas of the planet Blue, to the forested ruins of the Vanished People on Green, to the Whorl, the generation starship that he used to call his home, and the voyage back to his wife and family in New Viron.

Once the narrator embarks on this quest, his identity becomes more and more ambiguous. He recounts his travels on the seas of the planet Blue, to the forested ruins of the Vanished People on Green, back to the Whorl, the generation starship that he used to call his home, and his voyage back to his wife and family in New Viron.

Once the narrator embarks on this quest, his identity becomes more and more ambiguous. He recounts his travels from city-states on the planet Blue, to the forested ruins of the Vanished People on Green, and back to the Whorl, the generation starship he used to call home.

* Late Arrival Spoiler: Not only will ''Short Sun'' spoil major plot points of the BookOfTheLongSun if you begin reading it without having read the the prequel, it will also make absolutely no sense.

* SpiritualSuccessor: It's a lot like TheOdyssey... but in a speculative fiction setting

* LateArrivalSpoilers: Not only will ''Short Sun'' spoil major plot points of the BookOfTheLongSun if you begin reading it without having read the the prequel, it will also make absolutely no sense.

* SpiritualSuccessor: To theOdyssey... but in a speculative fiction setting

TheSequel 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.

* SpiritualSuccessor: To TheOdyssey... but in a speculative fiction setting

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.

* LateArrivalSpoilers: Not only will ''Short Sun'' spoil major plot points of the BookOfTheLongSun if you begin reading it without having read the the prequel, it will make absolutely no sense either.

Once the narrator embarks on this quest, his identity becomes more and more ambiguous. He recounts his travels from city-states on the planet Blue, to the forested ruins of the Vanished People on Green, and back to the Whorl, generation starship he used to call home.

* [[DoAndroidsDreamOfElectricSheep Do Inhumi Dream Of Electric 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)