![]() ![]() ![]() The story begins when Arienrhod, a Winter Queen whose reign is soon to end, seeks to break the cycle of exploitation by cloning herself among the Summer fisherfolk, with the idea of retrieving her daughter at adolescence and having her reign as the next Summer Queen. In the Winter years The Hegemony, remnants of a once mighty star-spanning empire, are able travel through the nearby black hole to exploit Tiamat’s resources in the Summer years, the black hole becomes too unstable for space travel, and the planet loses whatever luxuries and technology it had. In the warm years, the Summer Queens rule and the planet reverts to primitivism in the cold years, a single Snow Queen is kept perpetually at age 18 by the water of life, a youth serum extracted from the blood of the native "mers". Tiamat is a mostly oceanic world which orbits a black hole, and seasons there last for hundreds of years. It won the 1981 Hugo Award for its author. The first and titular book, The Snow Queen, is a multifaceted, old-fashioned Space Opera cast in the form of a high-tech fairy tale, with nods to Dune and Welsh Mythology. ![]() ![]() The Snow Queen series, by Joan D Vinge, is a series of four books set in the far future world of the Hegemony. ![]()
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