Planet of Exile - Hainish Cycle Author:Ursula K. Le Guin The rapidly dwindling Terran colony on distant Eltanin had been stranded for 600 years, their only neighbors the primitive nomads who feared them and settled beside them during the cruel 15 yr-long winters. — But it was the gathering winter that promised them the deadliest threat they had ever faced. For hordes of northern barbarians were about t... more »o descend, and the eerie murderous snowghouls were beginning to appear.
If Terran and native couldn't overcome the six centuries of fear and mistrust and join forces against the invaders, neither would survive the winter.« less