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From: William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five SFF Books Featuring Frigid, Icy Worlds
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2024 18:28:26 -0400
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Scott Lurndal wrote:
> William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> writes:
>> Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>> On 7/15/2024 9:15 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
>>>> Five SFF Books Featuring Frigid, Icy Worlds
>>>>
>>>> Celebrate the coldest summer of the rest of your life with some
>>>> frosty SF and fantasy novels!
>>>>
>>>> https://reactormag.com/five-sff-books-featuring-frigid-icy-worlds/
>>>
>>> Zero for five here.  Of course, there is "Fallen Angels" by Niven and
>>> Pournelle and a cast of hundreds.
>>>
>>> I am surprised that you did not mention "Icerigger (Humanx
>>> Commonwealth)" by Alan Dean Foster.
>>
>> Or Moorcock's earlier "The Ice Schooner", or Paul Cook's "Duende
>> Meadow", or "Time of the Great Freeze", by Silverberg, or John
>> Christopher's "The World in Winter", or Micheal Scott Rohan's "The
>> Winter of the World" (despite being fantasy, the most accurate portrayal
>> of an ice age), or ...
>>
> 
> Would Barjavel's _The Ice People_ qualify?
> 

I've never read it.   But the frozen people come from 900k in the past, 
which was during the current ice age. So maybe.

I was wrong about "Duende Meadow".   The story takes place after the ice 
is gone.

William Hyde