In the aftermath of a bloody war, two cultures rediscovered one another after long centuries of isolation: the Coven, a pastoral tribe with strange telepathic powers, and the City, a race of immortals who preserved man’s scientific heritage. Slowly, the painful union of these two worlds began. But their joining unleashed an awesome, hidden force that overshadowed both races’ future.A haunting saga of America in the far future, WINTERMIND has all the color and sweep of a great epic, combined with the human insight and intimate characterization of two of the field’s most accomplished talents.

Down the long years after the great devastation, the people of the Coven survived by living in harmony with nature and the old gods, and through the strange mental powers that linked them, one to another. Yet in their midst stood the City, the last refuge of the forgotten science, an isolated fortress protected by the Self-Gate, a barrier that destroyed all who crossed it by showing them their own darkest fears.But when the dual threats of war and plague threatened to shatter the long peace of the Coveners, one among them knew the time had come to breach the Citadel...and begin the reconciliation of mankind’s long-parted descendants.The first volume of a projected trilogy that continues with WINTERMIND, THE MASTERS OF SOLITUDE is a modern science fiction classic, an epic saga of humanity’s struggle to prevail.