Planet of Exile Author:Ursula K. LeGuin The rapidly dwindling Terran colony on distant Eltanin had been stranded for six hundred years, their only neighbors the primitive nomads who feared them and settled beside them during the cruel fifteen-year-long winters. — But it was the gathering winter that promised them the deadliest threat they had ever faced. For hordes of northern barbaria... more »ns were about to 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