AntarcticaVoyager, 1998 - 562 sider 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. |
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... Scott , not knowing about the heart defect , had no sym- pathy for Shackleton . Here was a younger man , who had been so much more dynamic back on Ross Island ; his breakdown Scott regarded as a moral defect , and as it endangered all ...
... Scott , not knowing about the heart defect , had no sym- pathy for Shackleton . Here was a younger man , who had been so much more dynamic back on Ross Island ; his breakdown Scott regarded as a moral defect , and as it endangered all ...
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... Scott stuff they've been giving us . It all comes from the Roland Huntford biography of Scott and Amundsen . It's a good book in some ways , but it should really have been called Scott Was An Idiot . It's a five - hundred - page list of ...
... Scott stuff they've been giving us . It all comes from the Roland Huntford biography of Scott and Amundsen . It's a good book in some ways , but it should really have been called Scott Was An Idiot . It's a five - hundred - page list of ...
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... Scott , he still admired him despite the mistakes . And even more so did he admire Wilson and Bowers , and they were Scott - loyalists as well . You can't take that away from Scott , no matter what Huntford said . ' Ta Shu turned from ...
... Scott , he still admired him despite the mistakes . And even more so did he admire Wilson and Bowers , and they were Scott - loyalists as well . You can't take that away from Scott , no matter what Huntford said . ' Ta Shu turned from ...
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Ice Planet | 1 |
Science in the Capital | 34 |
In the Antarctic Grain | 51 |
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