Willing suspension of disbelief only goes so far. The hokey mish-mash of coincidences stretched my belief to the limit and beyond. This is unfortunate: the plot is the weakest part of Vinge's novel. Vinge's The Snow Queen parallels closely the plot of Hans Christian Anderson's fairy tale of the same name. This cycle of Winter and Summer is the way of Tiamat.īut the Snow Queen might not want to relinquish power to the Summers. The Winter period-the reign of the Snow Queen-is marked by the presence of off-world technology and a Hegemony occupying presence the Summer period-the reign of the Summer Queen-is marked by the leaving of the Hegemony and all their technology. Tiamat is ruled by a queen, chosen from the Winter folk and Summer folk, alternately. Moon Dawntreader Summer lives on Tiamat, an underdeveloped planet embargoed by the technologically advanced Hegemony.
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