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The Summer Queen [071-142-066-4.6]

By: Joan D. Vinge
Category: Fiction Science Fiction

Synopsis:

Volume 3 in the Snow Queen Cycle The long-awaited sequel to Vinge's
enormous The Snow Queen (1980), an interstellar tug-of-war between the
far-from-benevolent Hegemony and the backward-but-indispensable planet
Tiamat. It is now Summer on Tiamat; the Hegemony has withdrawn, leaving
the planet in the hands of the Snow Queen's clone, Moon. Numerous--too
numerous--subplots get underway. Moon's former lover, BZ Gundhalinu,
will be sent to World's End, where a wrecked Old Empire ship has spilled
semi-sentient stardrive plasma; if Gundhalinu can control the plasma,
faster-than-light travel will again be possible, ending Tiamat's
periodic isolation. Elsewhere, Reede Kullervo, a researcher with a
rebuilt brain, addicted to his own supercharging designer drug, will be
ordered by the leader of the supercriminal Brotherhood to seek the
immortality elixir whose only source is Tiamat. Meanwhile, Moon
struggles to control Tiamat's rebellious factions, knowing that the
planet's intelligent sea-dwelling mers'' are the source of the elixir,
and that the ancient computer that links the galaxy's clairvoyant sibyls
in an information network lies buried under Tiamat's chief city,
Carbuncle; she dares not permit the Hegemony to control either the sibyl
network or the elixir. Pledged to forever end offworld exploitation and
save the mers, the Lady of Tiamat, also known as Moon Dawntreader, finds
her job made difficult by Summer tribes and the treacherous Winters.
Last printing: 09/03/02
`>332' ISBN: 0-5707-103-7157-1
ALSO BY JOAN D. VINGE


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Catspaw
World's End

Psion

Phoenix in the Ashes

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

(film novelization)
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