SF novel. Sequel to THE MASTERS OF SOLITUDE (1978).

''the first two volumes of the Masters of Solitude sequence, Masters of Solitude (1978) and WINTERMIND (1982); set in a post-holocaust USA: the first volume depicts a conflict between rural followers of a diseased mutant form of Christianity and a city in which a science-based worldview is encapsulated; in the second, a personal drama and an interesting half-breed protagonist intensify the grain of narrative, but peculiarly diminish the sense, given off by the earlier book, of a large sf occasion'' (John Clute/Encyclopedia of SF).