Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang Paperback - 1998
by Kate Wilhelm
The story of an isolated post-holocaust community of clones who are determined to preserve civilization, Where Late the Sweet Bids Sang" is widely regarded as Wilhelm's finest work.
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Before becoming one of today's most intriguing and innovative mystery writers, Kate Wilhelm was a leading writer of science fiction, acclaimed for classics like The Infinity Box and The Clewiston Test.
Now one of her most famous novels returns to print, the spellbinding story of an isolated post-holocaust community determined to preserve itself, through a perilous experiment in cloning. Sweeping, dramatic, rich with humanity, and rigorous in its science, Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang is widely regarded as a high point of both humanistic and "hard" SF, and won SF's Hugo Award and Locus Award on its first publication. It is as compelling today as it was then. - From Macmillan publishing
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Readers praised the novel’s exploration of identity and humanity through cloning, finding it conceptually engaging and ripe for discussion. Criticisms centered on a too-rapid early narrative and an emotionally flat tone that undercut the stakes. Overall, reception was moderately positive, with the book valued more for its ideas than its characters.
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First edition identification
Before the publication of Wilhelm's novel in 1976, part one of Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang was featured in the fifteenth edition of Orbit.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1976- Octavo; black boards, with titles stamped in purple on spine. Vibrant dust jacket.
Details
- Title Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
- Author Kate Wilhelm
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Orb Books, New York
- Publication date 1998-07-15
- ISBN 9780312866150 / 0312866151
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.8 in (21.34 x 13.97 x 2.03 cm)
- Category Fiction - Science Fiction
- Library of Congress subjects Science fiction, Cloning
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 98023120
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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- New York Times, 09/13/1998, Page 44
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