Return To The Whorl: Gene Wolfe

Volume III of The Book Of The Short Sun. Horn has embarked on a quest in search of the heroic leader Patera Silk. Horn has travelled from his home planet Blue to the mysterious planet Green, visited the great starship Whorl and even, somehow, reached the distant planet Urth. But Horn's identity has only become more ambiguous, a complex question embedded in the story, whose telling is itself complex; shifting from place to place, present to past. Perhaps Horn and Silk are one being... Cover art by Jim Burns.