The Earth colony of Landin has been stranded on Werel for ten years - and each of Werel's years is over 60 terrestrial years! After so long an exile, the lonely and dwindling human settlement is beginning to feel the strain.
Every winter - a season that lasts a decade and a half - the Earthmen have neighbours: the humanoid hilfs, a nomadic people who only settle down for the cruel cold spell. The hilfs fear the Earthmen, whom they think of as witches, and call the farborns. But both peoples have common enemies: the hordes of ravaging barbarians called gaals, and eerie preying snow ghouls.
Can the hilfs and the farborns overcome their mutual suspicions and join forces? Or will they both be annihilated?
- ISBN10 0575025956
- ISBN13 9780575025950
- Publish Date 25 January 1979 (first published 1 January 1966)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 November 1991
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Littlehampton Book Services Ltd
- Edition New edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 192
- Language English