The Making of the Representative for Planet 8
A temperate world tended by its distant patrons is told that the transfer its people were promised will not happen, and that the ice coming down from the pole will not stop. Doeg, whose office is to remember and to tell, watches food, warmth and finally the sense of a separate self go out of a population that had never known scarcity. Lessing drew the cold from the journals of Scott's Antarctic party; fourth of the Canopus in Argos sequence.
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- companion to ↑ The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five
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