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Автор Джоан Виндж
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 It is now Summer on Tiamat; the Hegemony has withdrawn, leaving the planet in the hands of the Snow Queen’s clone, Moon.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 semisentient 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
Book design by Giorgetta Bell McRee
To the Mother of Us All To my mother And to my children
I owe many thanks to many people for their help in making this book a reality, after so long. In particular, I would like to thank Michall Jeffers and John Warner, for bringing Hamlet’s Mill to my attention; Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend, authors of Hamlet’s Mill; Barbara Luedtke; Jim Frenkel; Vernor Vinge; Brian Thomsen; the Clarion West class of ‘88; Deborah Kahn Cunningham; Lolly Boyer; Steve and Julia Sabbagh; Merrilee Heifetz; and Richard Plantagenet, King of England, who may be the most misunderstood man in history.
AUTHOR’S NOTE
The following names of characters and places are pronounced as shown:
Ananke (Uh-NONkee)
Arienrhod (AIRY-en-rode)
Danaquil Lu (DAN-uh-keel LOO)
Gundhalinu (Gun-dahLEEnoo)
Jerusha PalaThion (Jer-OO-shuh PAL-uhTHY-un)
Kedalion Niburu (Keh-DAY-lee-un Nih-BUR-oo)
Kharemough (KAREuhmoff)
Kharemoughi (KAREuhMAWG-ee)
Kullervo (KulLAIRvoh)
Miroe Ngenet (MIR-row EngEN-it)
Mundilfoere (MUNdil-fair)
Sandhi (SAHNdee)
Tiamat (TEE-uhmaht)
Tuo Ne’el (TOO-oh NEEL)
Vhanu (VAHnoo)
‘Do
‘You know nothing? Do you see nothing? Do you remember
‘Nothing?’
I remember
