Antarctica » (Reissue)

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.

Kim Stanley Robinson, who took us around the solar system with his award-winning Mars trilogy, brings readers to an equally alien setting — this one on our own world. In Antarctica, it's the near future, the world is overpopulated, and Antarctica is at the heart of an environmental war over who can lay claim to the beautiful continent's natural resources. But in addition to a slew of countries eager to lay their hands on Antarctica's natural assets, there's a growing supply of nature-loving terrorists who value the South Pole more than human lives, and there's no easy answer to the question of who provides the biggest threat. One thing is for sure — Antarctica's intelligent and gripping story is guaranteed to keep you cool through the brutal summer heat.

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