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Where Late The Sweet Birds Sang

(Paperback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

Where Late The Sweet Birds Sang

Contributors:

By (Author) Kate Wilhelm

ISBN:

9780575079144

Publisher:

Orion Publishing Co

Imprint:

Gollancz

Publication Date:

11th January 2007

UK Publication Date:

12th October 2006

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

General

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Fiction

Main Subject:
Dewey:

813.54

Prizes:

Short-listed for John W Campbell Award 1977 (UK)

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

256

Dimensions:

Width 133mm, Height 199mm, Spine 20mm

Weight:

225g

Description

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

Author Bio

Kate 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.

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