The Ice People

By Maggie Gee

Set in the near future, The Ice People imagines an ice age enveloping the Northern Hemisphere. It is Africa's relative warmth that offers a last hope to northerly survivors. As relationships between men and women break down, the novel charts one man's struggle to save his alienated son and bring him to the south and to salvation. Maggie Gee is the author of The White Family , shortlisted for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and The Flood , longlisted for the Orange Prize. She is the first female chair of the Royal Society of Literature and lives in London.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1846590388
• ISBN13: 9781846590382
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: Telegram Books
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Scary, scary scary....

Living in the managed autocracy of 1984 would be ingorant bliss, compared to living through the process of decivilisation depicted in The Ice People. It is the imminency of the story that maximizes discomfort. Ever worried about trends in gender politics, climate change, fertility, food security, environmental degradation, social propaganda, corporate neo-feudalism ? Maggie Gee is the uber-dentist. She hits a nerve wherever she drills. And it is only page 65.... sigh....

a darkly humorous dystopian novel

Martin Amis once said that Maggie Gee was the only female author of his generation that he would bother to read. And while one might not endorse such sentiments wholeheartedly, in this dystopian novel with its themes of man's relation to nature and technology and relations between men and women it is clear that she has an unusual capacity for writing from the standpoint of her male protagonist-narrator. The novel has both suspenseful and darkly humorous moments, and although it won't make anyone forget "1984," or even the more contemporary writing of Octavia Butler, it is certainly a good read.

A classic masterpiece. Immensely poetic.

I am not going to reveal much about this book. It is probably better than 1984 of George Orwell. It is an undeniable masterpiece, you must search for other reviews if you have trouble believing me. This book will be probably amongst the greater masterpieces of human history. Prophetic, brutal,elegant,real, human. It will change your life. It makes a difference in an era of too much novels published. Immensly poetic from the begining to the end. To me is clear that is the best narrative ever, but you should see for your self. A unique book, that never goes out of mind.