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Cover artist Fernando Fernandez Language English Media type Print Originally published February 1973 Page count 176 ISBN 9780839823537 | 3.7/5 Goodreads Country United States Publication date 1973 Pages 176 Genre Science Fiction Publisher New American Library | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The People of the Wind is a science fiction novel by Poul Anderson, first published in 1973. It was a 1974 nominee of the Nebula Award for Science Fiction. This novel is the last book in Anderson’s Polesotechnic League series. However, since the setting of the book is many generations after the series' two main characters, Nicholas van Rijn and David Falkayn, and many generations before Anderson's follow-up series, the Terran Empire; it is more proper to consider this book a bridge between the two series.
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The People of the Wind is a story of the clash of two very different cultures living on one planet named Avalon. One culture consists of people who trace their ancestry to earth and thus be considered human. They have created a highly organized and complex society. The other culture is made up of winged creatures that have remained ‘as free as the wind.’ Despite the unlikelihood of such two different groups forming a unified society, they indeed created a single nation composed of the best of both races. Unfortunately the two groups are forced into a war, and the population of Avalon is forced to choose a side to support. Unless they choose they are going against both.
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The People of the Wind was first published in 1973. It was reprinted by Signet as a mass market paperback on January 17, 1978.