The Snow Queen

Interesting Facts

• The book won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1981.
• The plot of the book is based on Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale "The Snow Queen."
• The story takes place on the planet Tiamat, which is influenced by two suns and has cycles of winter and summer, each lasting 150 years.
• The main heroine, Moon, is a clone of Queen Arienrhod and must fight for her destiny and the future of the planet.
• The book explores themes of power, identity, and ecology.
• The novel is the first part of a duology, followed by the book "The Summer Queen."