Antarctica book cover by Kim Stanley Robinson

Antarctica

Adult • Thriller & Suspense • Action & Adventure • Mystery • Thriller
Adventurers face harsh environmental challenges Environmentalists engage in covert sabotage Political wrangling over Antarctica's future Landscape poses unique survival threats Intrigue surrounding land reclamation efforts

It is a stark and inhospitable place, where the landscape itself poses a challenge to survival. Yet its strange, silent beauty has long fascinated scientists and adventurers. As politicians wrangle over its fate, adventurers come as they have for more than a century, even as they endanger it with their ever-growing numbers. Meanwhile, radical environmentalists carry out a covert campaign of sabotage to reclaim the land from those who would destroy it for profit.

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Publication date
1998

Thriller & Suspense + Action & Adventure + Mystery

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Antarctica faces an uncertain future as the international treaty that protects it is about to dissolve. Major corporations are probing for its hidden riches, while adventurers seek the wild, untamed land.

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About the author

Kim Stanley Robinson

Kim Stanley Robinson

Kim Stanley Robinson is a winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards. He is the author of more than twenty books, including the bestselling Mars trilogy and the critically acclaimed Forty Signs of Rain, Fifty Degrees Below, Sixty Days and Counting, The Years of Rice and Salt, and Galileo’s Dream . In 2008 he was named one of Time magazine’s “Heroes of the Environment.” He serves on the board of the Sierra Nevada Research Institute. He lives in Davis, California.
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“Antarctica may well be the best novel of the best ecological novelist around.— Locus”

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