Antarctica

Jacket Description/Flap: From the award-winning author of the Mars Trilogy comes a thrilling new novel.... Kim Stanley Robinson, author of the Hugo and Nebula award-winning Mars trilogy, is one of the most original and visionary writers of fiction today. Now, in his latest novel, he takes us to a harsh, alien landscape covered by a sheet of ice two miles deep. This is no distant planet--it is the last pure wilderness on earth. A stark and inhospitable place, its landscape poses a challenge to survival; yet its strange, silent beauty has long fascinated scientists and adventurers. Now Antarctica faces an uncertain future. The international treaty that protects the continent is about to dissolve, clearing the way for Antarctica's resources and eerie beauty to be plundered. As politicians and corporations move to determine its fate from half a world away, radical environmentalists carry out a covert campaign of sabotage to reclaim the land. The winner of this critical battle will determine the future for this last great wilderness.... Biographical Note: Kim Stanley Robinson is the author of the Nebula and Hugo award-winning Mars trilogy, Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars, as well as The Wild Shore, The Gold Coast, Pacific Edge, A Short, Sharp Shock, and other novels. He lives in Davis, California. Review Quotes: "Forbidding yet fascinating, like the continent it describes...echoes Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air."--"People""[Antarctica] should be included in any short-list of books about the frozen continent.... Compelling characters...a rich and dense story... Robinson has succeeded not only in drawing human characters but also in bringing Antarctica to life. Whatever happens in the outer world, Antarctica--both the book and the continent--will become part of the reader's interior landscape."--"The Washington Post Book World"""The" epic of Antarctica. This is the James A. Michener novel of the South Pole. If the meaty one-word title didn't give it away, the writing would. The whole human history of the continent is here."--"Interzone""Antarctica will take your breath away."--"Associated Press""A gripping tale of adventure on the ice."--"Publishers Weekly""Passionate, informed...vastly entertaining."--"Kirkus Reviews""Robinson writes about geography and geology with the intensity and unhurried attention to detail of a John McPhee."--"The New York Times Book Review" Review Citations:

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Publishers Weekly 05/11/1998 pg. 54 (EAN 9780553100631, Hardcover) - *Starred Review

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Contributor Bio:  Robinson, Kim Stanley Kim Stanley Robinson's Three Californias trilogy -- "The Gold Coast", "The Wild Shore" and "Pacific Edge -- "has been observed as "an intriguing work, one that will delight and entertain you, and, most importantly, cause you to stop and think" ("The Santa Ana Register"). His many other novels include "Escape from Kathmandu" and "Green Mars -- "which won the Hugo and Locus Award for Best Novel.