Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
Kate Wilhelm
Science Fiction
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
by Kate Wilhelm
—· 251 p· 1976
Hugo AwardLocus Award20th Century Classicdarkhauntingphilosophicalreflective
Overview
About
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 Later the Sweet Birds Sang is wide…
Pages
251
Blackstone Audiobooks
Linguistic complexity
3/5
Moderate
Thematic complexity
4/5
Rich
Rating
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Reader feel
Ethical Speculation9
Worldbuilding8
Emotional depth8
Character Psychology8
Prose7
Narration7
Pacing7
Plot twists6
My journey
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