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The snow queen by joan d vinge6/2/2023 ![]() ![]() I wouldn’t say impressive, though: The city of Tiamat is just a standard space port city which isn’t really coming to live. The Hegemony’s interest in the planet of Tiamat has to do with the sentient creatures called “Mers”: Slaughtering them brings the “water of life” which halts aging.īest part of the novel is the carefully crafted setting. Characters’ names sound a bit silly first, but they fit their “Summer” savage cultural background and contrast “Winters'” and otherworlders’ names.īeside Andersen’s story, the novel steers toward one very important recurring point of history, bringing together several cultures in one event called “the Change”: The winter queen goes into the sea and is replaced by the summer queen, all watched by two otherworld cultures. All of those characters stay a bit flat, I wasn’t able to really connect to them. This Science Fantasy novel follows the plot line of Andersen’s fairy tale The Snow Queen, with main characters Moon as Gerda, Sparks as Kai, and Arienrhod as the eponymous protagonist. ![]() ![]() Wow, now look at that cover art by Michael Whelan! Enjoy the unaltered text copied over from GoodReads. I’ve read and reviewed this novel in November 2013. ![]()
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