Where Late The Sweet Birds Sang

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?

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

Kate Wilhelm 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 the Milford Sciene Fiction Writers' Conference and through the Clarion Science Fiction Writers' Workshop.

Introduction by Lisa Tuttle The Sumner family can read the signs: the droughts and floods, the blighted crops, the shortages, the rampant diseases, and, above all, the increasing sterility of the population all point to one thing. Their isolated farm in the Appalachians gives them the ideal place to survive the coming meltdown, and their wealth gives them the means. Men and women must clone themselves for humanity to survive. But what then? 'Superb' THE ENCYLOPEDIA OF SCIENCE FICTION 'If all SF was as finely crafted as Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang , we'd have great cause to rejoice' VECTOR Kate Wilhelm (1928-) Kate Wilhelm has won many awards for her writing, including the Hugo for Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang . She has also been influential beyond her writing through the Milford Science Fiction Writers' Conference, founded by her late husband, Damon Knight. 978 0 575 07914 4 7.99

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?

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