The Snow Queen Trilogy (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Joan D. Vinge
- First Published: 1980
- Type of Work: Novels
- Type of Plot: Fantasy—alien civilization
- Time of Work: An unspecified time in the future
- Setting: An unnamed galaxy
- Genres: Long fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: Folkloric or magical people, Future, Other worlds, Inheritance or succession, Bioengineering or biotechnology, Mermaids or mermen, Clones or cloning
- Locales: Space
The Plot
The Change is coming to the watery planet Tiamat, which will be closed to the rest of the empire for 150 years. A new queen will rule. To protect herself, Arienrhod, the Snow Queen, has cloned herself. Arienrhod plans for the clone, Moon Dawntreader Summer, to come to Carbuncle, the planet’s only major city, to prepare to become the next queen. The Change means that the less sophisticated Summers will rule and that the off-worlders will leave, taking their technology with them.
Arienrhod’s original plan is aborted when Moon inadvertently is taken off the...
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