World's End

Joan D. Vinge
World's End Cover

Quite a good tangential story...

ScoLgo
6/24/2016
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Quite a good tangential story to The Snow Queen. Picking up the tale of BZ Gundhalinu after he has left Tiamat in disgrace, it is told in the form of BZ's diary entries looking back at his time on World's End, from where he was trying to rescue his brothers. Once he reaches World's End, he is recruited by her mother to also rescue a sybil named Song.

This first-person introspective is a disjointed and disturbing study of one man's descent into insanity. Or is it? The reveals that come near the end of the story will clearly have huge ramifications for Tiamat as well as for the rest of the Hegemony. On to the Summer Queen to see how this all plays out!