

An edition of Iron Winter (2012)
By Stephen Baxter
Publish Date
2013
Publisher
-
Language
eng
Pages
474
Description:
"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..."--
subjects: Northland (Imaginary place), Fiction, North homage (ky. : imaginary place), fiction, Fiction, alternative history, Fiction, historical, Prehistoric peoples, Walls, Alternative histories (Fiction), Fantasy fiction, History, Fiction, historical, general, Europe, fiction, Climatic changes, FICTION / Science Fiction / General, FICTION / Alternative History
Places: Europe