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New User Posts: 3 | A book I read a long time ago. Pre1970 most likely. Basics that I remember: The main character is a Yeti-like being, a shaman of his tribe. His tribe is wiped out; he is the last. He, like other shamans, keeps the stories of his tribe on a knotted cord. At the end of the book, he finds a different species also nearly wiped out which he adopts to teach them the legends and stories of his people. The main character lives in a polar region. Anybody know a book like that? | ||
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New User Posts: 2 | Sounds familiar and, from my patchy memory, vaguely reminiscent of Robert Silverberg's At Winter's End? | ||
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New User Posts: 3 | It might be but doesn't sound quite right. I might buy it on Kindle just to check it out. That's for responding! | ||
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New User Posts: 2 | No worries. On the surface descriptions may look a bit different but I seem to recall similar elements of it being based around a tribe of ape-like creatures in a frozen world, a protagonist that is the tribe's chronicler with most of said tribe being wiped out at one point and his going on to live/primarily interact with another species. Either way hopefully you won't be disappointed as it (and the sequel) are good reads and some of the better late-period Silverberg. | ||
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New User Posts: 3 | Simulacrum - 2016-01-18 4:18 PM No worries. On the surface descriptions may look a bit different but I seem to recall similar elements of it being based around a tribe of ape-like creatures in a frozen world, a protagonist that is the tribe's chronicler with most of said tribe being wiped out at one point and his going on to live/primarily interact with another species. Either way hopefully you won't be disappointed as it (and the sequel) are good reads and some of the better late-period Silverberg. Thanks for your help! I do have Star of Gypsies Edited by Woods Wizard 2016-01-18 6:14 PM | ||
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Uber User Posts: 1057 | Woods Wizard - 2016-01-06 6:45 AM A book I read a long time ago. Pre1970 most likely. Basics that I remember: The main character is a Yeti-like being, a shaman of his tribe. His tribe is wiped out; he is the last. He, like other shamans, keeps the stories of his tribe on a knotted cord. At the end of the book, he finds a different species also nearly wiped out which he adopts to teach them the legends and stories of his people. The main character lives in a polar region. Anybody know a book like that? It looks as though your question was posted over on another SF forum and someone there came up with an answer: sounds like Frostworld and Dreamfire by John Morressy | ||
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