The Keys to December

by Roger Zelazny

Release: August 1966
Format: Novelette
Genre: Science Fiction
Audience: Adults
Content: Time Phenomena
Original Language: English

Tens of thousands of people, genegineered for an iceworld are left homeless after a nova, so they set out to create their own world, not realizing the potentialities of the indiginous life.

— Michael Main

The vanguard arrived, decked out in refrigeration suits, installed ten Worldchange units in either hemisphere, began setting up coldsleep bunkers in several of the larger caverns.

DEBUT

“The Keys to December,” New Worlds, August 1966.

VARIANTS

1 English variant

TRANSLATIONS

Translations to Dutch, French, German

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Time Periods

Unspecified Future Year

Themes

Long Sleep, Cryogenics, Etc.

Groupings

New Worlds (periodical): August 1966

ITTDB Work #6878: by Roger Zelazny
Indexer: Michael Main
Curator: Michael Main
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