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kittiwakeWhen we looked up at that wall, we could see how the ice had come pressing down and over its top. A dirty greyish white shelf projected from our wall: it was the edge of a glacier. If the wall gave, then what could stand between us and the ice and snow of that interminable winter up there, whose shrieking winds and gales kept us awake at nights, while we huddled together under the mounds of thick hides? But the wall would not give. It could not . . . Canopus had prescribed it, Canopus had ordered it. Therefore, it would stand . . .
But where was Canopus?
If we were to be rescued in time for our peoples to be saved, then that time was already past.
Planet 8 in the Canopean Empire was a paradise and its people were happy, until an unprecedented snowfall ushers in a dramatic climate change. The Representatives try to keep things going and help their everyone to adapt to the new conditions, but they are fighting a losing battle. Canopus helped them adapt their houses and promised to bring ships to evacuate them to Rohanda, but then the unthinkable happens. They realise that Canopus doesn't have everything under control after all. and there will be no evacuation.
A short, sad book. So sad, in fact, that I may be giving it less credit than it deserves, just because I found it depressing.
Reviews of Books 1 to 5 and a DNF cross-posted to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
50bookchallenge.
But where was Canopus?
If we were to be rescued in time for our peoples to be saved, then that time was already past.
Planet 8 in the Canopean Empire was a paradise and its people were happy, until an unprecedented snowfall ushers in a dramatic climate change. The Representatives try to keep things going and help their everyone to adapt to the new conditions, but they are fighting a losing battle. Canopus helped them adapt their houses and promised to bring ships to evacuate them to Rohanda, but then the unthinkable happens. They realise that Canopus doesn't have everything under control after all. and there will be no evacuation.
A short, sad book. So sad, in fact, that I may be giving it less credit than it deserves, just because I found it depressing.
Reviews of Books 1 to 5 and a DNF cross-posted to
50bookchallenge.
