The time might well be today in this intriguing science fiction tale in which the vagaries of weather open the door to an unknown civilization from the past - or is it the future? Across the globe a new ice age is encroaching. From Alberta to Ontario most of Canada is deserted, its people resettled in the southern United States and Mexico, while mile by mile, century by century, the glacier grinds down their former homes. Fisher Yann Highsmith is a scientist stationed, with a few colleagues, on the edge of the ice field, recording its relentless growth and the destruction of life in its path. In the midst of this barren landscape the team recovers a weird assortment of artifacts that seem to appear suddenly out of thin air, and Highsmith fits them together into a fantastic theory of another dimension. Then the search parties begin to find bodies out of time and place and Highsmith's history of parallel worlds becomes a chilling reality.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Fun speculative tale,
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This review is from: Ice and Iron (Hardcover)
This book, written in 1973, is an interesting time capsule. At the time, scientists were telling us that a new ice age was coming instead of global warming. This novel runs with that idea. Set sometime in the near future, ice sheets are growing to encompass the world. The sheets have already spread over most of Canada, making it uninhabitable. Cavemen and debris have begun to fall from the sky near the edge of the ice fall and Fisher Highsmith is sent to investigate.
This fun, simple, quick-to-read book entertained me for an afternoon. The chapters alternate between the "Ice" period that is set in the near-future and the "Iron" period set in the far future where man has returned to primitive Iron-age living. The most interesting aspect of this book was the subtext of ignoring consequences of weapon use. In the future, advanced civilization has created a gun that appears to vaporize its targets. In reality, the gun pushes the targets into the past. The users of the weapon have no idea of the far-reaching consequences of the technology. The guns seem to work and that's good enough. Certainly if we would invent a weapon that worked although we couldn't exactly explain how, it seems likely we would still deploy it. Definitely food for thought.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Short; mostly harmless,
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This review is from: Ice & Iron (Mass Market Paperback)
A nice little SF novel, with geology/meteorology/earth science as the 'S' value. The next Ice Age, the warming after that, and a novel weapon-gadget that explains Charles Fort's rains of fishes, frogs, etc. Old-fashioned, as SF reads: a puzzle to solve, no characters to develop, admire the coolness of the conceit and then move on. Things that make it feel especially dated: no computers, telefacsimile is the state of the art in information transfer (this a couple hundred years into the future, mind), and the whole idea of "climate change" meaning glaciation not global warming. The all-woman military of the far future may have seemed far-out radical in 1973, less shocking now.
Harmless, but not much better than that. It took me 30 years to get around to reading it, and I wasn't missing anything in that time
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