Author: Carolyn Ives Gilman
Year: 2011
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A Best Novella Nominee for the Hugo Awards.
This story first appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, November/December 2011.
From The Author's Induction:
The Ice Owl is set in the same universe-though not on the same planet-as my previous novella from Arc Manor/Phoenix Pick, Arkfall. I have started calling this universe the Twenty Planets. I never planned to write linked stories; this universe just keeps luring me back because the rules are congenial. Humans have invented light-speed transport and (by the time this story takes place) primitive instantaneous communication. This creates some interesting situations I like to play with. For example, in this story I wanted to explore what it would be like to grow up as...
This book is part of the "Twenty Planets" series. Here are some other books from this series:
 | "Dark Orbit"
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 | "Halfway Human"
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