Some Summer Lands
core novel 1977 The Atlan Saga
Record
| First published | 1977 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.45 (97 ratings, collected 2026-08-26) |
| Page count | 360 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780886771140 |
| Internal chronology | 4 |
Synopsis
Some Summer Lands closes out the Atlan Saga and, unlike the earlier volumes, is narrated by Seka, Cija's daughter by Zerd, rather than by Cija herself. As the continent of Atlan is consumed by escalating catastrophe, mother and daughter are driven through further hardship and encounters with the strange and mystical forces that have shadowed the family throughout the series. Atlan itself is ultimately destroyed rather than allowed to fall to conquest, leaving Cija, Seka and Zerd among the survivors forced to seek out a new life beyond the ruins of the world that has defined the saga, bringing the multi-generational story that began in The Serpent to a close.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Atlan Saga
- Series: The Atlan Saga core; position 4 of 4 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Jane Gaskell
Notes
- From the series record (The Atlan Saga): A prehistoric secondary-world saga following the heroine Cija across a mythic, magic-infused Atlantis; the debut volume was reportedly begun when the author was a teenager.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Atlan Saga: position 4 of 4: previous The City (1966)
Sources
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