- Hardcover: 500 pages
- Publisher: Voyager; First Edition edition (15 Sep 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0002253593
- ISBN-13: 978-0002253598
- Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 16.2 x 4.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 563,342 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In the near future Wade Norton has been sent to Antarctica by Senator Phil Chase to investigate rumours of environmental sabotage. He arrives on the frozen continent and immediately begins making contact with the various scientific and political factions that comprise Antarctic society. What he finds is an interesting and diverse mix of inhabitants who don't always mesh well but who all share a common love of Antarctica and a fierce devotion to their life there. He also begins to uncover layers of Antarctic culture that have been kept hidden from the rest of the world, some of which are dangerous indeed. Events are brought to a head when the saboteurs--or "ecoteurs" as they call themselves--launch an attack designed to drive humans off the face of Antarctica. This is Kim Stanley Robinson's first book since his award-winning Mars trilogy, and while some of the themes may be familiar to seasoned Robinson readers the book is never less than engrossing. As usual Robinson does a masterful job with the setting of his story, and anyone interested in Antarctica won't want to miss this one. --Craig Engler, Amazon.com
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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An epic, futuristic disaster novel set in the wastes of Antarctica. Like the world it protects, the Antarctic Treaty is dissolving.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Enough snow to make you blind,
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This review is from: Antarctica (Paperback)
If you enjor KSR's books (Mars, Gold Coast etc.), then you'll enjoy this. If you haven't read any of his books before, this is not the place to start.KSR is an author I have enjoyed for years, capable of painting beautiful and detailed pictures of the landscapes and people around the central characters. The Mars books are cold and inhospitable, and KSR paints an equally bleak picture of this frozen earhly wasteland, but takes an awful long time doing it. The characters and plot are OK, and enough to drive a determined reader through the book, however, unless you're a completist, I wouldn't put it top of your reading list. Why four stars then? The descriptions of Antarctica were enough to make me shiver and reach for that extra sweater.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Stunning book,
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This review is from: Antarctica (Paperback)
This is an amazing book, full of vivid descriptions of Antarctica and careful renderings of personalities and situations. The most disturbing thing about the book is that it presents a frighteningly realistic picture of the possible future. This book is highly reccomended and it's made me want to visit Antarctica just to find out how much is true!
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Beautiful Novel,
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This review is from: Antarctica (Paperback)
This is the second time I've read this book. The first was while sunbathing on a Greek beach in 1999 or thereabouts, perhaps not the most appropriate place to read about the world's coldest, highest, driest continent, while melting under the scorching Greek sun. I loved it then, I love it even more now. This time I started reading it in the very cold winter of 2010/2011, having experienced a little inkling of the cold that hard continent receives, perhaps. But what is the novel about?
It advertises itself as an eco-thriller but that doesn't do it justice. It is a story, an exciting story revolving around four main characters. It is a story set in the not-too-distant future when the Antarctic Treaty has expired but not been renewed, due to conflicting national interests. It is about science, the bone-structure of Antarctica revealed to us from a geologist point view, the issues of the ongoing debates clearly laid down to us, the reader. It is a spiritual story, drawing together elements of Feng Shui, feral love of a place, and our connection to the earth. It is an adventure, a mountaineer's dream, an exciting tour across the mighty glaciers and ice plains of this vast continent. It is a tale of politics, love and above all else our place within nature and about how our current actions endanger our very existence. The Ross Ice Shelf has split off and is now permanent sea, thanks to global warming. The world is overpopulated, over-warm, and suffers from severe weather events, and even in cold Antarctica the weather is changing. The ice shelves are weak and moving fast. It is a book about ecology, the actions and consequences of eco-saboteurs seen through the eyes of a mountain guide Val, one of her clients Ta Shu, a Feng Shui master, a Senator's Aide Wade who flies in to investigate mysterious disappearances, and a man known as X from the downtrodden working class at McMurdo Antarctic Station. It is about everything that is wrong with capitalism, basically, set within an exciting story on ice. This second reading was interesting, and I got more from it this time. The book hasn't changed, I have, and a lot of what is written is close to my own personal beliefs. It raises a lot of issues, and raises them well without being judgmental. And it is well written, the characters well formed and believable, and exciting.
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