Until the Celebration
| Author | Zilpha Keatley Snyder |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Alton Raible |
| Language | English |
| Series | Green Sky Trilogy |
| Genre | Fantasy |
| Publisher | Atheneum |
Publication date | 1977 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 231 pp |
| ISBN | 0-689-30572-9 |
| Preceded by | And All Between |
Until the Celebration is a science fiction/fantasy novel by Zilpha Keatley Snyder, the third book in the Green Sky Trilogy.
The book's title refers to the duration it describes, from the day of Rejoyning (when Kindar and Erdling, the two nations of the world of Green-sky, were united) until the celebration of the first year since.
As the trilogy's conclusion, the book unveils the lies that underlie the utopia in the Green Sky community, marking the series genre as a "Critical Utopia";: 153 this is a change from the series' earlier perception as a pastoral utopia.: 152 It is only in this final novel that we find the key issue in Green Sky's seemingly utopian society: "a society of controller ideality is seen as less viable than a teeming pluralistic society".
With Raamo D'ok's death in his attempt to save society, readers find that the series does not present a happy ending, showing the healing the wounds of the past and merging the two societies would still leave much work to be done.: 149