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Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
by Kate Wilhelm
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VERY GOOD/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0060146540
- ISBN 13
- 9780060146542
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About This Item
Garden City: Harper Science Fiction, 1975. Hardcover. VERY GOOD/Good. Escher. Very good book in good dust jacket. Dust jacket has edge wear, now in new removable protective cover. Black boards, purple print on spine. Pages clean and unmarked. Harper / Science Fiction Book Club hard cover with dust jacket, May 1975 printing (code G17), ISBN: 9780060146542, SFBC #2479, 213 pages, cover art by M. C. Escher. 8vo (8.5"" x 5.75"") Winner, 1977 Hugo Award, 1977 Locus Poll Award. Nominated, 1977 Nebula Award. 3rd place, 1977 John W. Campbell Award. The Sumner family can read the signs: the droughts and floods, the blighted crops, the shortages, the rampant diseases and plagues, and, above all, the increasing sterility all point to one thing. Their isolated farm in the Appalachian Mountains gives them the ideal place to survive the coming breakdown, and their wealth and know-how gives them the means. Men and women must clone themselves for humanity to survive. But what then?
Synopsis
Before becoming one of today's most intriguing and innovative mystery writers, Kate Wilhelm was a leading writer of science fiction, acclaimed for classics like The Infinity Box and The Clewiston Test . Now one of her most famous novels returns to print, the spellbinding story of an isolated post-holocaust community determined to preserve itself, through a perilous experiment in cloning. Sweeping, dramatic, rich with humanity, and rigorous in its science, Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang is widely regarded as a high point of both humanistic and "hard" SF, and won SF's Hugo Award and Locus Award on its first publication. It is as compelling today as it was then. - From Macmillan publishing
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- Bujoldfan
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 102013010060146540gb
- Title
- Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
- Author
- Kate Wilhelm
- Illustrator
- Escher
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VERY GOOD
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0060146540
- ISBN 13
- 9780060146542
- Publisher
- Harper Science Fiction
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1975
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- Cloning
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science Fiction / Fantasy;
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