The Snow Queen (Vinge novel)

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The Snow Queen

Cover of first edition (hardcover)
Author	Joan D. Vinge
Illustrator	Leo and Diane Dillon Michael Whelan
Cover artist	Leo and Diane Dillon
Language	English
Series	The Snow Queen Cycle
Genre	Science fiction novel
Publisher	Dial Press
Publication date	1980
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages	471
Award	Hugo Award for Best Novel, Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (all 1981)
ISBN	0-8037-7739-6
OCLC	5412267
Dewey Decimal	813/.5/4
LC Class	PZ4.V78 Sn PS3572.I53
Followed by	World's End (1984)

The Snow Queen is a 1980 science fiction novel by American writer Joan D. Vinge. It won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1981,^[1] and was also nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1981.^[2]

Based on the 1844 fairy tale of the same name by Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Queen takes place on a mostly oceanic planet called Tiamat. Tiamat's suns orbit a black hole, which facilitates interstellar wormhole travel and connects Tiamat to the rest of the civilized galaxy (the "Hegemony", the remnants of a fallen Galactic Empire).