Return to the Whorl (The Book of the Short Sun 3) Gene Wolfe&39;s Return to the Whorl is the third volules, of his aain narrated by Horn, who has embarked on a quest in search of the heroic leader Patera Silk Horn has traveled from his home on the planet Blue, reached the reat starship, the Whorl and even, somehow, the distant planet Urth But Horn&39;s identity has becouous, a co is itself co from place to place, present to past Perhaps Horn and Silk are now one being Return to the Whorl brings Wolfe&39;s e and seductive climax