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