The Ice People [Mass Market Paperback]

Rene Barjavel (Author), Gene Szafran (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1973

Frozen bodies of a male & female, from a superior civilization that existed 900,000 years ago, are discovered by scientists

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 238 pages
• Publisher: Pyramid (1973)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0515029130
• ISBN-13: 978-0515029130
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (42 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,076,483 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cinq etoiles dans la nuit, January 31, 2000

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Sergio Flores (Orange, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Ice People (Hardcover)

"The Night Of Time," as the title should read, is one of those moving, extraordinary books to which I return time and again long after I've read them. Few books have had that effect in me, but this beautiful story of a love, a civilization, a chance for humanity, lost under the ice, has remained with me ever since I read it seven years ago. I will now suggest a title that may be of interest to all those reviewers who obviously liked this book as much, or maybe more, than I did: "When the Sky Fell," by Rand and Rose Flem-Ath (available at Amazon), which deals with the very intriguing possibility that something known as "Earth crust displacement" could have moved all continents and oceans at once in the past and Antarctica, now frozen, could have been located at a much more warmer latitude. This is theory, and the authors have not forced the re-writing of any textbooks, but their idea is interesting, and they have obtained a lot of data to support it. This book is not fiction, like Berjavel's, but it ties so neatly with it that I thought I'd provide those like-minded reviewers of "The Ice People" with a chance to check a short, entertaining, and also very fascinating work. So, five stars for Rene Berjavel's book, and congratulations to all those who have read and enjoyed it. I think it's difficult to do one thing and not the other.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Found a long lost friend, September 12, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Ice People (Hardcover)

I found this book in my junior high library, and even though I had never read any SF, I read it again and again, and have never forgotten it. Off and on over the years I have looked for it, never quite sure if I was even remembering the title correctly. When I decided to look for it at Amazon, I was worried that I would find it and that it would not live up to my memories (as books you read as a child often don't), but now that I have read all of the other reviews, I am dying to get my hands on it. It was beautiful and moving.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My Favorite Book!!, May 5, 2007

A Kid's Review

This review is from: The Ice People (Hardcover)

My dad gave me this book a few months ago, and I LOVED it!! I was an incredible book. I've recomeded it to all my friends, but I don't think anyone else is going to read it sonce they are not avid readers and we are only in grade nine! But I still anyone who listens that this is the best book ever written. I don't understand why it's not famous and why it is so hard to find...