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.

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  1. “The Keys to December” by Roger Zelazny, New Worlds, August 1966.
  2. “Sleutels tot december” [Keys to December] by Roger Zelazny, in Science-fiction verhalen, unknown editor (Het Specturm, 1969).
  3. “Les clefs de décembre” [The keys of December] by Roger Zelazny, in Histoires de surhommes, edited by Jacques Goimard, Demètre Ioakimidis, and Gérard Klein (Le Livre de Poche, March 1984).
  4. “Clefs pour décembre” [Keys for December] by Roger Zelazny, in Le livre d'or de la science-fiction: Roger Zelazny (Presses Pocket, December 1985).
  5. “Die Erschaffung eines Gottes” [The creation of a god] by Roger Zelazny, in Science fiction stories 27, unknown editor (Ullstein, August 1973).
  6. “Dezemberwelt” [December world] by Roger Zelazny, in Die Türen seines Gesichts (Moewig, November 1980).

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  1. “The Keys to December” by Roger Zelazny, New Worlds, August 1966.
  2. Dutch.
    “Sleutels tot december” [Keys to December] by Roger Zelazny, in Science-fiction verhalen, unknown editor (Het Specturm, 1969).
  3. French.
    “Les clefs de décembre” [The keys of December] by Roger Zelazny, in Histoires de surhommes, edited by Jacques Goimard, Demètre Ioakimidis, and Gérard Klein (Le Livre de Poche, March 1984).
  4. French.
    “Clefs pour décembre” [Keys for December] by Roger Zelazny, in Le livre d'or de la science-fiction: Roger Zelazny (Presses Pocket, December 1985).
  5. German.
    “Die Erschaffung eines Gottes” [The creation of a god] by Roger Zelazny, in Science fiction stories 27, unknown editor (Ullstein, August 1973).
  6. German.
    “Dezemberwelt” [December world] by Roger Zelazny, in Die Türen seines Gesichts (Moewig, November 1980).