num_pages: 251
description: 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 SF, winning SF's Hugo Award and Locus Award on its first publication.
language: English
title: Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
titlecomplete: Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
characters: Celia Sumner, David Sumner
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Apocalyptic, Science Fiction Fantasy, Classics, Hugo Awards, Fantasy, Dystopia, Post Apocalyptic
ratings_count: 10079
awards: awardedAt: 220953600000
name: Hugo Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 189331200000
name: Nebula Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 220953600000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 220953600000
name: Jupiter Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 220953600000
name: John W. Campbell Memorial Award
category: Best Science Fiction Novel
publisher: Harper and Row