Notes
At Winter's End, a New Springtime novel by Robert Silverberg.

The first part of the A New Springtime trilogy.

Previously published in a shorter form in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (January 1988).

Two volumes of the series were published and a third part was planned, but the latter did not progress beyond an outline that was subsequently published in the 2005 Bison Books edition of The Queen of Springtime (ISBN 0803293313).

The image opposite and the blurb below are from the 1990 Legend paperback edition, ISBN 0099739607. Cover illustration by Kevin Tweddell.

Publisher's Blurb – Lower Cover
The Long Winter is over

The People of the New Springtime must go out and reclaim their world

For generations the survivors of the cataclysm have sheltered in cocoons buried in the earth and waited for the gods to grow tired of hurling down death-stars onto a frozen world. Now it is time for Koshmar and the boy-chronicler, Hresh, and the rest of Koshmar's tribe to emerge into the sun. A strange and savage landscape awaits them, where rat-wolves, bloodbirds and soulless hjjk-men stalk – and the terrifyingly altered other creatures.

In the ruins of Vengiboneeza, the ancient capital of the sapphire-eyes folk, Hresh dares to celebrate their triumph – and suffers a shattering defeat at the realization of a great and terrible truth.

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