Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang, Kate Wilhelm
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang, Kate Wilhelm
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Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang

Author: Kate Wilhelm

Narrator: Anna Fields

Unabridged: 7 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2006

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

When the first warm breeze of Doomsday came wafting over the Shenandoah Valley, the Sumners were ready. Using their enormous wealth, the family had forged an isolated post holocaust citadel. Their descendants would have everything they needed to raise food and do the scientific research necessary for survival. But the family was soon plagued by sterility, and the creation of clones offered the only answer. And that final pocket of human civilization lost the very human spirit it was meant to preserve as man and mannequin turned on one another. 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 and hard science fiction. It won science fiction's Hugo Award and Locus Award on its first publication and is as compelling today as it was then.

About Kate Wilhelm

Kate Wilhelm (1928–2018) was the bestselling author of dozens of novels and short-story collections. Among her novels are the popular courtroom thrillers featuring attorney Barbara Holloway. Her other works include the science fiction classic Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Baba on January 05, 2023

SF Masterworks #67: What begins as a look at a family of entrepreneurs, scientists and doctors dealing with what looks like an unstoppable collapse of humanity, morphs into a quite an unsettling and eerie look at cloning and what generations of clones in a Homo Sapien-less world could become! My fir......more

Goodreads review by mark on January 16, 2015

David Sumner has a problem: the world as he knows it is about to end. what's a brilliant young man and his equally brilliant family to do? why, bring back members of that extended family, store supplies, circle the wagons, and build a lab which will eventually help the Sumner family to repopulat......more

Goodreads review by Bradley on February 10, 2017

1977 Hugo winner for best novel. We've got some serious competition out here for best dystopia, but what about the old SF classics that decided to do it first, and often better, than all the modern trash out here? Sure, there's a seriously 70's vibe here, man, with all the deep concerns for community......more

Goodreads review by Nandakishore on January 10, 2016

(Edit to add: the review below contains what some may consider to be spoilers. But on the whole, I do not think that reading this review will spoil the enjoyment of the book for you.) Science fiction stories usually concern the impact of the progress of science on human beings. When the science part......more

Goodreads review by Jamie on September 13, 2021

Beyond clones and cloning and the end of civilization, at it's heart Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang is a touching, melancholic story about what makes us individuals and why our differences and diversity are central not only to the evolution of humanity but also key to our survival. I wouldn't be su......more

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