Antarctica - Hardcover

Robinson, Kim Stanley

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0553100637 ISBN 13: 9780553100631

Verlag: Bantam Dell Pub Group, 1998

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Book by Robinson Kim Stanley

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A winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards for his Mars Trilogy, the author follows the struggle of a group of misfits and pioneers to survive the elements in the South Pole, invaded by resource-hungry nations and political extremists.

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Robinson is one of the most original and visionary voices in science fiction. In his highly successful Hugo and Nebula award-winning Mars trilogy, Robinson led us on an odyssey of transformation and discovery, as humans terraformed the Great Red Planet. 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.

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. Explorers have crossed this vast, frozen terrain for many reasons: to stand in awe before the volcanic Mount Erebus or Antarctica's other natural wonders, to fathom the mysteries of ages past, to exploit its great stores of untapped mineral wealth, or to pit themselves against this cold, unforgiving continent.

Now Antarctica faces an uncertain future. The international

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• Verlag: Bantam Dell Pub Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0553100637
• ISBN 13: 9780553100631
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 511