The Ice Orphan
- Authors
- Kathleen O'Neal Gear
- Publisher
- Astra Publishing House
- Tags
- fic000000 fiction , general
- Date
- 2022-08-22
- Size
- 2.41 MB
- Lang
- en
This third book in a cli-fi series from a nationally-recognized anthropologist explores a frozen future where archaic species struggle to survive an apocalyptic ice age.Its been 925 summers since the Jemen introduced zyme, a bioluminescent algae, into the worlds ocean and unwittingly triggered an Ice Age that has consumed most of the planet. All but a handful of Jemen flew to the stars, but before they left, they recreated several extinct species that had thrived in the last Ice Age. After almost a thousand summers, the archaic hominins that struggle along the edges of massive glaciers are dwindling. All they have to save them is a dying quantum computer called Quancee and her student, a Denisovan man named Lynx.When the last Jemen, Vice Admiral Jorgenson, tells Lynx hes going to dismantle Quancee and use her parts to create a new computer, Lynx is stunned. He cant let Jorgenson kill Quancee! Meanwhile, in the lodges of...