Description
On the edge of a warming world, a multinational community of scientists struggles to keep their research—and their fragile stations—alive as Antarctica becomes newly accessible and newly contested. As the Antarctic Treaty is tested by competing national interests, corporate ambitions, and environmental urgency, the novel follows the daily labor, politics, and ethical dilemmas that shape life at the bottom of the planet. Blending adventure with a near-future climate change allegory, it traces the continent’s history and geography while asking who gets to claim, protect, or exploit a shared wilderness. With Kim Stanley Robinson’s signature blend of rigorous detail and big-picture social imagination, this is a sweeping, thought-provoking portrait of science under pressure and the stakes of collective governance.
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paperback
Paw Prints
Published Nov 3, 2008
ISBN: 9781439568194
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First Published
1997
Language
eng
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