kate wilhelm

Any good?

Richard Wilhelm RIP So many brilliant SF Novels and short fiction bust most remembered for Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang.

She's been mentioned in a few threads but she hasn't got one of her own according to a quick search I did. I've just started reading some of her work and it's strange to note that often the premise or idea sounds deathly dull but I've read all the way to the end very quickly every time so far...

I've finished Where Late The Sweet Birds Sang, and I liked it quite a lot. Ostensibly a post-apocalyptic novel about cloning, it's basically a meditation on the role of individuality and our relationship with nature as defining elements of being human. Kate Wilhelm suggests that our...