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IN THE TENTH YEAR—THE DAY OF JUDGMENT



The Earth colony of Landin had been stranded on distant Eltanin for ten years. But ten of Eltanin's years were six hundred Terrestrial years, and the lonely and dwindling human settlement was beginning to feel the strain.



Every winter—a season which lasted for fifteen of our years—the Earthman had neighbors. These were the hu-manoid hilfs, a nomadic people who only settled down when they burrowed in for the cruel long cold spell. Yet the hilfs feared the Earthmen, whom they thought of as witches and called the farborns. And their fear kept the lost colony lonely.



But hilfs and farborns had common enemies: the hordes of ravaging barbarians called Gaals and the eerie preying snowghouls. And in the terrible winter of the Tenth Year, the only hope of hilf and farborn was to join forces or be annihilated.



URSULA KROEBER LE GUIN, daughter of A. L. Kroe-ber (anthropologist) and Theodora Kroeber (author), was born in Berkeley, California in 1929. She attended college at Radcliffe and Columbia, and married C. A. LeGuin hi Paris in 1951. The LeGuins and their three children live in Portland, Oregon.



OTHER BOOKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR:



CITY OF ILLUSION



ROCANNON'S WORLD



A WIZARD OF EARTHSEA



and



THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS, which has won both the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award as the best science fiction novel of the year.



All are published by ACE BOOKS.



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