The Book of the Short Sun: On Blue's Waters
The Book of the Short Sun is a series of three novels by Gene Wolfe. The books have no pictures, so this painting shows one possible view of a scene. It is evening on the sea of the world Blue.
Horn sails his sloop with Seawrack and Babbie. The world Green is in the sky, and inhumi fly from it. The short bright mark in the sky is the Whorl. The painting has 7,059 brush strokes.