At Winter's End - Hardcover

Silverberg, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0446513849 ISBN 13: 9780446513845

Publisher: Grand Central Pub, 1988

Synopsis

From the Five-Time Nebula Award-Winner""Seven thousand centuries ago, falling death stars unleashed fiery apocalyptic destruction on Earth and inaugurated the Long Winter. One small band of People took refuge in an underground cocoon where they and their descendants waited for the time of ice to end. Now their long winter is over. Prophecy and circumstance urge the tribe out into the half-forgotten world beyond their safe cocoon. Led by their chieftain Koshmar, the tribe journeys to the city of Vengiboneeza, where the prophecy of the gods says they are to rule. On their way the tribe discovers the dangers and wonders of life in the New Springtime. In the face of new temptations and peril, Koshmar and her lover, the priestess Torlyri, struggle to keep the People united and fulfill the prophecy. For soon they will be beset by other trials, as other beings seek to fulfill their own prophecies.Robert Silverberg provides an introduction exclusive to this Bison Books edition.

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After a recurrence of the cataclysm that killed off the dinosaurs and a resulting Long Winter of 700,000 years, the eventual New Springtime sees only two of the far future Earth's original Six Peoples emerge from their deep cocoons: the resilient, insect-like hjjk-folk and the simian tribes who regard themselves as heirs to humanity. Young Hresh-full-of-questions is a member of one of the latter, a small band that must radically change its ancient rituals and taboos to adapt to their new life. Taking up temporary residence in the shell of a once great city, the group fearfully meets another people, is itself torn in half by rivalry and, through Hresh, achieves a new realization of who they are. This solid, dramatic novel expands on a favorite motif of Silverberg's: the mixed terrors and pleasures of freedom, of going out into the wider world without guide, map or a sure sense of one's own capabilities.
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After 700 centuries, the Long Winter has ended, and Koshmar leads her small band of humans from their underground cocoon onto the surface of the earth to begin reclaiming their inheritance. Against a backdrop which contrasts tantalizing visions of a long-dead civilization with the harsh realities of a beautiful and dangerous new world, Silverberg relates the struggle of a new humanity at the dawn of an age. Highly recommended. JC
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Edition details

• Publisher: Grand Central Pub
• Publication date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0446513849
• ISBN 13: 9780446513845
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 404