It's the middle of the twenty-first century, and the next Ice Age has suddenly sent global warming into reverse. Saul is one of the Ice People, the threatened peoples of the northern hemisphere, who, watching their world freeze over, try to move south towards the equator.
'Set in the near future, The Ice People imagines not a globally warmed world, but an earth slowly returning to aridity and cold. A universal freeze has also descended upon relationships between men and women, who live in morbid segregation, with feathered robots as sexual partners. In a neat reversal of First World - Third World assumptions, Africa's relative warmth offers a last hope to northerly survivors as the novel charts one man's struggle to rescue his alienated son and bring him to where the sun shines.' - Rose Tremain
- ISBN13 9781846591389
- Publish Date 18 April 2012 (first published 10 October 1998)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Saqi Books
- Imprint Telegram Books
- Format eBook
- Pages 319
- Language English