The Summer Queen

Vinge, Joan D

| 2003

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Sequel To The Hugo Award-Winning Bestseller" The Snow Queen""The Summer Queen" is the extraordinary sequel to one of science fiction's most celebrated novels, "The Snow Queen." Set in a fully realized universe of wonders, this spectacular space epic, itself a finalist for the Hugo Award, is one of the most remarkable novels in the field. A story that spans millennia, from the ruins of an ancient interstellar empire to the planets of the Hegemony that rules human space, "The Summer Queen" is the multi-layered story of Tiamat, a world where the dolphin-like mers are harvested for the youth-prolonging serum extracted from their blood. But Tiamat is much more, for beneath Carbuncle, its capital, lies the old empire's greatest secret: an enormous forgotten technology which, though decaying, continues to affect the fates of the fallen empire's remnant cultures via the sybil-network--a data bank...

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