Before becoming one of today's most intriguing and innovative mystery writers, Kate Wilhelm was a leading writer of science fiction, acclaimed for classics like The Infinity Box and The Clewiston Test.
Now one of her most famous novels returns to print, the spellbinding story of an isolated post-holocaust community determined to preserve itself, through a perilous experiment in cloning.
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.
Kate Wilhelm is the author of more than three dozen books and the winner of Nebula Award, Hugo Award, Jupiter Award, Locus Award, and the Prix Apollo. She and her late husband, Damon Knight, helped found the Science Fiction Writers of America and the Clarion Writers Workshop. She lives in Eugene, Oregon.
