![]() ![]() ![]() In the warm years, the Summer Queens rule and the planet reverts to primitivism in the cold years, a single Snow Queen is kept perpetually at age 18 by the water of life, a youth serum extracted from the blood of the native "mers". Tiamat is a mostly oceanic world which orbits a black hole, and seasons there last for hundreds of years. It won the 1981 Hugo Award for its author. ![]() The first and titular book, The Snow Queen, is a multifaceted, old-fashioned Space Opera cast in the form of a high-tech fairy tale, with nods to Dune and Welsh Mythology. The Snow Queen series, by Joan D Vinge, is a series of four books set in the far future world of the Hegemony. ![]()
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