Book description
Many generations ago the Wall was first built to hold back the sea.
Northland, a country of fertile plains and ancient forests rescued from
the ocean, has become a thriving civilisation based on trade, technology
and tradition, centred on the ancient home of the first builders,
Etxelur. The whole of Europe, spanned by the Northlanders' steam caravan
lines, has been changed in ways that could never have been predicted.
But nothing can last forever, not even the Wall. The weather is
changing, growing colder, and in the wake of the long winters come
famine, destruction and terror. And as whole nations are forced out of
their lands and head for warmer climes, it seems that even Northland may
not be able to endure.
But there is one man, an elderly scholar, who believes he can calculate
why the world is cooling, and perhaps even salvage some scraps of the
great civilisation of Etxelur. As he embarks on his grand quest across
the world, as nations struggle for survival and the fires of war burn in
the gloom, only one thing is certain.
The Ice is coming. Stephen Baxter is the pre-eminent SF writer of his
generation. Published around the world he has also won major awards in
the UK, US, Germany, and Japan. Born in 1957 he has degrees from
Cambridge and Southampton. He lives in Northumberland with his wife.
