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"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 barbarians 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 ...more
"But it was the gathering winter that promised them the deadliest threat they had ever faced. For hordes of northern barbarians 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 ...more

I like Ursula Le Guin's storytelling it manages to be both dry and engaging. How does she do it? No idea but it works. :)
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