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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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