Where Late The Sweet Birds Sang
By (Author) Kate Wilhelm
Orion Publishing Co
Gollancz
11th January 2007
12th October 2006
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
813.54
Short-listed for John W Campbell Award 1977 (UK)
Paperback
256
Width 133mm, Height 199mm, Spine 20mm
225g
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 thenKate Wilhelm (1928 - ) is a multi-award winning author. She received both the Hugo and the Jupiter for WHERE LATE THE SWEET BIRDS SANG, and several Nebulas for her short fiction. She has also been influential through th Milford Sciene Fiction Writers' Conference, and through the Clarion Science Fiction Writers' Workshop.