About the Book
Expanded and republished from the novella "A Twelvemonth and a Day', 1960. Also known as The Night Face (1978).
The Two Faces of Gwydion
The men on the spaceship Quetzal
had a mission to perform, but everything indicated it would be a simple
matter to set up a refueling station on the planet Gwydion. Advance
explorations had already determined that the inhabitants of Gwydion
were few in number and thouroughly amiable in their ways. In fact, such
concepts as anger, thievery, murder and warfare did not exist for them.
All that remained for the Quetzal was to find a suitable site and
cement friendly relations.
But with the change of season and the
bursting of the countryside into blossom, strange things began to
happen. There was talk of a mysterious cycle and a day of danger. What
was the secret the Gwydionites themselves dared not mention? How would
it affect their spacemen visitors?
