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The Snow Queen
by Joan D. Vinge
On a world called Tiamat, two cousins who are also lovers, Moon and Sparks, get caught up in the machinations of their world's Snow Queen Arienrhod. Arienrhod comes from the "Winter" clan and rules for 100 years before the season changes, the off-worlders leave, taking their technology with them, and the Summer clan elects its Summer queen for the next 100 years. The queen and some of her nobility and the off-worlders have access to life-prolonging technology, but during the Summer reign, technology is traditionally shunned. Arienrhod plots to keep Winter in power and to help her world advance technologically, partly out of self-interest but also because she wants to get out from under the thumb of the multi-world government called the Hegemony. The book is loosely based on the plot of the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale of the same name.
This was a re-read for me. I remember being knocked out by it in my early 20s and remembered scenes from it for years afterward. I recommend this book highly, especially for folks who are looking for complicated and strong female characters in their sci-fi.
This was a re-read for me. I remember being knocked out by it in my early 20s and remembered scenes from it for years afterward. I recommend this book highly, especially for folks who are looking for complicated and strong female characters in their sci-fi.