Book Club: The Snow Queen

Our February Book Club selection, The Snow Queen, the first volume in a Hugo and Locus Award-winning and Nebula-nominated series by the multiple-Hugo-award-winning author Joan D. Vinge.

The Snow Queen merges interstellar politics, a millennia-long secret conspiracy, and a civilization whose hidden machineries might still control the fate of worlds to create the the background of this a spectacular science fiction novel.

"The imperious Winter colonists have ruled the planet Tiamat for 150 years, deriving wealth from the slaughter of the sea mers. But soon the galactic stargate will close, isolating Tiamat, and the 150-year reign of the Summer primitives will begin. Their only chance at surviving the change is if Arienrhod, the ageless, corrupt Snow Queen, can destroy destiny with an act of genocide. Arienrhod is not without competition as Moon, a young Summer-tribe sibyl, and the nemesis of the Snow Queen, battles to break a conspiracy that spans space."