The Queen of Springtime: Volume 2 of The New Springtime

Silverberg, Robert

ISBN 10: 0575045868 / ISBN 13: 9780575045866

Published by Victor Gollancz, London, 1989

About this Item

First printing of the first British edition. Signed by Robert Silverberg directly on the title-page. Light toning to page margins, else book and dust jacket in fine condition.

Seller Inventory # 022655

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Queen of Springtime: Volume 2 of The New Springtime
• Publisher: Victor Gollancz, London
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0575045868
• ISBN 13: 9780575045866
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Nicholas Rodgers
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science Fiction / Fantasy
  • Signed First Editions
  • Modern First Editions

About this title

Synopsis

From the Five-Time Nebula Award-Winner The death stars that brought the apocalyptic destruction on Earth seven hundred thousand years before have stopped falling, and Earth has begun to renew itself. The Long Winter that held the human tribes in their cocoons beneath the ground is over, and the People are spreading rapidly across the newly fertile land. The Queen of Springtime continues the chronicles of the People’s reclamation of Earth begun in the first volume, At Winter’s End. The human tribes struggle to fulfill their destiny as rulers of Earth, but they find the seats of power already occupied. The hjjks, the somber, cold-eyed insect-folk, never retreated, even at the time of greatest chill. The world fell to them by default, and they have been its sole masters for seven hundred thousand years. The Queen of Springtime follows the struggle between these dissimilar beings to establish dominance in the newly emerging world. Exclusive to this Bison Books edition, Robert Silverberg provides an introduction and a synopsis of the unwritten concluding volume of The New Springtime trilogy. Appearing for the first time in print, “The Summer of Homecoming” outline reveals the fates, two hundred years later, of the heroes and their world that were introduced in At Winter’s End and The Queen of Springtime.

About the Author

Robert Silverberg is one of science fiction’s most beloved writers, and the author of such contemporary classics as Dying Inside, Downward to the Earth, and Lord Valentine’s Castle. He is a past president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and the winner of five Nebula Awards and five Hugo Awards. In 2004 the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America presented him with the Grand Master Award. Silverberg is one of twenty-nine writers to have received that distinction.