Authors: Kate Wilhelm
ISBN-13: 9780312866150, ISBN-10: 0312866151
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Doherty, Tom Associates, LLC
Date Published: July 1998
Edition: 1st Edition
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 Later 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.
In this science fiction tale, the sterile survivors of a global environmental catastrophe turn to mass cloning, but the clones' communal upbringing deprives them of imagination and creativity.