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The Ice Orphan
Kathleen O'Neal Gear
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R339
Discovery Miles 3 390
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Now in paperback, this third book in the Rewilding Reports cli-fi
series from a nationally recognized anthropologist explores a
frozen future where archaic species struggle to survive an
apocalyptic ice age. It's been 925 summers since the Jemen
introduced zyme, a bioluminescent algae, into the world's ocean and
unwittingly triggered an ice age that has consumed most of the
planet. All but a handful of Jemen flew to the stars, but before
they left, they recreated several extinct species that had thrived
in the last ice age. After almost a thousand summers, the archaic
hominins that struggle along the edges of massive glaciers are
dwindling. All they have to save them is a dying quantum computer
called Quancee and her student, a Denisovan man named Lynx. When
the last Jemen, Vice Admiral Jorgenson, tells Lynx he's going to
dismantle Quancee and use her parts to create a new computer, Lynx
is stunned. But while Lynx battles to save Quancee, the quantum
computer has other priorities. Before she dies, she has to save a
special boy who cannot save himself. Meanwhile, in the lodges of
the Sealion People, a sick boy on the verge of manhood hears
voices, including an old woman who sings to him. When Jawbone goes
on his first quest to find a spirit helper, that same old woman
finds him, and his life will never be the same. An insightful story
of climate change with a basis in anthropological research, The Ice
Orphan takes readers on a journey to a world at once strange and
familiar.
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The Ice Lion (Paperback)
Kathleen O'Neal Gear
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R525
R334
Discovery Miles 3 340
Save R191 (36%)
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Ships in 9 - 15 working days
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This cli-fi novel from a notable archaeologist and anthropologist
explores a frozen future where archaic species struggle to survive
an apocalyptic Ice Age One thousand years in the future, the zyme,
a thick blanket of luminous green slime, covers the oceans.
Glaciers three-miles-high rise over the continents. The old stories
say that when the Jemen, godlike beings from the past, realized
their efforts to halt global warming had gone terribly wrong, they
made a desperate gamble to save life on earth and recreated species
that had survived the worst of the earth's Ice Ages.
Sixteen-summers-old Lynx and his best friend Quiller are members of
the Sealion People-archaic humans known as Denisovans. They live in
a world growing colder, a world filled with monstrous predators
that hunt them for food. When they flee to a new land, they meet a
strange old man who impossibly seems to be the last of the Jemen.
He tells Lynx the only way he can save his world is by sacrificing
himself to the last true god, a quantum computer named Quancee.
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