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Name: Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang

Author: Kate Wilhelm
Year: 1976
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Popularity: 2.9
Genres/categories: Science fiction, Award winners, Fantasy, Classic, Mystery

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ISBN:
9780020264828
9780099148005
9780671435325
9780671836139
9780786159932
9780786171132
0020264828
0099148005
0671435329
0671836137
0786159936
0786171138
Winner of the Hugo award for Best Novel in 1977.
Winner of the Locus award for Best Novel in 1977.
Winner of the Jupiter award for Best Novel in 1977.

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 & hard SF, winning SF's Hugo Award and Locus Award on its first publication.
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