A01=Maggie Gee
adventure
Africa
artificial life
Author_Maggie Gee
Britain
Category=FBA
change
childbirth
climate change
conflict
disintegration
Doves
Earth
environmental crisis
eq_bestseller
eq_fiction
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_modern-contemporary
eq_nobargain
ethics
family
fatherhood
future
gender
global warming
housecleaning
ice age
innovation
kidnapping
mobots
nanotechnology
personal journey
political party
political struggle
robots
Saul
science
social collapse
societal impact
society
sperm count
survival
Susan
technological development
technology
weather
Wica
women's rights
Product details
- ISBN 9781846590382
- Weight: 308g
- Dimensions: 130 x 200mm
- Publication Date: 15 May 2008
- Publisher: Saqi Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
It's the middle of the 21st 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, it 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.
Maggie Gee was chosen as one of Granta's original 'Best Young British Novelists'. She has published many novels to great acclaim, including My Cleaner and The Flood, which was longlisted for the Orange Prize. She is the first female Chair of the Royal Society of Literature, and lives in London.
