num_pages: 464
description: This first novel is a richly imagined work set in a Washington, D.C., devastated by nuclear and biological warfare. Society is rigidly stratified: the Ascendants, absentee rulers who were responsible for the devastation; the Curators, who tend the city's nearly destroyed museums and libraries; the Paphians, who barter sexual favors for goods; and the Lazars, wretched survivors of periodic germ warfare who subsist by cannibalism. In this far-future world where a post-holocaust civilization has created its own myths from the remnants of the past, a young woman genetically altered to feel others' emotions and a young man trained from birth as a sacred prostitute find themselves inexplicably drawn to each other as a mad dictator schemes to bring about the "Final Ascension."Compared with the works of Margaret Atwood, WINTERLONG explores the disturbing remains of humanity irrevocably altered by genetic engineering run amok.
language: English
title: Winterlong
titlecomplete: Winterlong
genres: Science Fiction Fantasy, Dystopia, Apocalyptic, Urban Fantasy, Fantasy, Fiction, Post Apocalyptic, Horror, Science Fiction, Adult
ratings_count: 862
series: Winterlong
awards: awardedAt: 662716800000
name: Locus Award
category: Best First Novel, awardedAt: 662716800000
name: Philip K. Dick Award
publisher: Spectra