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WORLD'S END [071-142-066-4.6]

By: JOAN D. VINGE

Category: Fiction Science Fiction

Synopsis:

Volume 2 in the Snow Queen Cycle Now at last, Joan D. Vinge, best selling
author of The Return of the Jedi Storybook, returns to the universe of
her award-winning Snow Queen, with a novel as dazzling, as compelling,
as the "future classic" (Arthur C. Clarke). BZ Gundhalinu, police
officer of the Hegemony, member of the elite "tech" class of the ruling
planet Kharemough, left the planet Tiamat before the Stargate closed,
cutting himself off forever from the simple barbarian girl who gave him
back his sense of self worth. Moon Dawntreader Summer is now the Summer
Queen, and BZ knows he can never again be her lover. But the strict
Kharemoughi codes of honor have made him an outcast, too, and he selects
a remote outpost of the Hegemony for his new assignment: Four, a planet
where the police work is tough and never-ending, and where he can try to
forget. Four boasts great mineral wealth, which attracts all the rogues
and ruffians of the universe to the vast, uncharted wilderness known as
World's End. Travellers to that region allude to unimaginable horrors,
but few actually return to speak of it. World's End has swallowed up
countless numbers of prospectors, including BZ's brothers. When BZ's
obsession with Moon and his concern for his family interfere with the
performance of his duties, he is granted leave and he sets out for
World's End. His quest: to rescue his brothers from the wilderness and
restore the family's lost honor and lost wealth. But something else is
calling him. A sibyl has told him about the ruined city of Sanctuary, on
the edge of Fire Lake. A mysterious force is at work there, a force that
disrupts the fabric of space and time, a force that may yield up the
secrets of Old Empire technology. But before BZ can unlock the puzzle,
he must face the evil deep inside himself-- and in breathtaking passages
of sheer storytelling power, Vinge makes WORLD'S END an extraordinary
novel of one man's search for himself--his soul --his love--and his
destiny.
Last printing: 09/03/02
`>334' JOAN D. VINGE reached the top of
national bestseller lists in 1983 with The
Return of the Jedi Storybook. Her novel The Snow Queen (1980) won the Hugo
Award for Best Science Fiction NOVEL,
and established her as a major novelist.
She lives in Chappaqua, Mew York, and
maintains close ties to her hometown,
San Diego, California.

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