It gets cold in the desert at night, particularly up in the mountains; the stars hammer on the rock and strike frost

It gets cold in the desert at night, particularly up in the mountains; the stars hammer on the rock and strike frost

Tanith Lee was a master of creating vivid and atmospheric settings in her writing, and the line "It gets cold in the desert at night, particularly up in the mountains; the stars hammer on the rock and strike frost" perfectly captures the eerie and haunting beauty of her prose.