Iron Winter: The Northland Trilogy - Hardcover

Baxter, Stephen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 045124012X ISBN 13: 9780451240125

Publisher: Roc, 2013

Synopsis

Praised as “not only a gifted storyteller but also a master of speculative fiction” (Library Journal), bestselling author Stephen Baxter brings his epic Northland trilogy to a close as a once-thriving civilization faces winter without end....
 
Many generations ago, the Wall was built to hold back the sea. A simple dam, it grew into a vast linear city, home to scholars, builders, and merchants. Northland’s prosperity survived wars and unrest—and brought the whole of Europe together.
 
But now darkness is falling. Days grow shorter, temperatures colder, and in the wake of long winters come famine, destruction, and terror. As a mass exodus to warmer climes threatens to fracture Northland, one man believes he can outwit the cold, and even salvage some scraps of the great civilization—before interminable gloom settles over the land; before the fires of war lay waste to an empire; before the ice comes....
 

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About the Author

Stephen Baxter was born in Liverpool, England, in 1957. He holds degrees in mathematics, from Cambridge University; engineering, from Southampton University; and business administration, from Henley Management College. He’s a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society.

His first professionally published short story appeared in 1987. He has been a full-time author since 1995 and is currently Vice-President of the British Science Fiction Association.

His science fiction novels have been published in the UK, the US, and in many other countries including Germany, Japan, France. His books have won several awards including the Philip K Dick Award, the John Campbell Memorial Award, the British Science Fiction Association Award, the Kurd Lasswitz Award (Germany) and the Seiun Award (Japan) and have been nominated for several others, including the Arthur C Clarke Award, the Hugo Award and Locus awards. He has also published over 100 sf short stories, several of which have won prizes. He can be found at stephen-baxter.com.

Reviews

Baxter wraps up his epic-size Northland trilogy (the first two volumes being Stone Spring, 2011, and Bronze Summer, 2012). As fans of the first two books know, Northland is the author’s fictional stand-in for Doggerland, the ancient land mass that was consumed by the North Sea, an offshoot of the Atlantic Ocean, about 8,200 years ago after an ice age. Doggerland connected the island of what is now Great Britain to mainland Europe, and in Baxter’s fictional world, the people of Northland built an enormous wall that kept back the rising waters. A civilization grew and prospered, but now, in the trilogy’s final installment, nearly 7,500 years later (roughly 1315, by our calendar), a new ice age threatens to destroy Northland. Baxter’s history is considerably different from our own, and as always, his characters, including the scholar Pyxeas, the bearer of probably the worst news any civilization wants to hear, are beautifully drawn. Fans of the first two books are strongly advised to read this one. Newcomers may want to start at the beginning to get the full, epic sweep of the story. --David Pitt

Edition details

• Publisher: Roc
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 045124012X
• ISBN 13: 9780451240125
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 496