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Post by edwin on Oct 25, 2010 21:27:39 GMT
Maggie Gee "The Ice People"isbn 186066153X
Climate cools, women and men split
Crawford Kilian " Ice Quake" isbn 0708815383
Antarctica splits, climate cools.
Douglas Orgill and John Gribbin " The Sixth Winter" isbn
0708818757
Adventure in Siberia, learn about wolves and Inuit.
I'm assuming they are British authors but may be wrong. i enjoyed them all.
For an early warning Fred Hoyle's books on the coming ice age are very good discussing the various minimums coming together etc. Just ordered Ice by him for 1p plus postage.
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Post by Matthew on Oct 28, 2010 14:04:33 GMT
One of my favourite British post-apoc books is the 'World in Winter' by John Christopher. Great book.
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Post by edwin on Oct 28, 2010 14:32:41 GMT
Like World in Winter a lot and his characters are more real somehow.
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Post by halforc on Oct 29, 2010 1:42:44 GMT
read a book years ago that I loaned out could never remember the title and was reminded of it when day after tomorrow was released as alot of things in the book happened in the film unfortunately the book released as day after tomorrow wasn't that book  |
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Post by edwin on Oct 29, 2010 11:09:19 GMT
There was one I can't remember published 20-30 years ago where Britain gets iced up and our heroes trek as a village from somewhere like the east Midlands to the Welsh coast to become fishers and crofters. Neat bits where people are queing to buy houses in a chilly but as yet ice-free London and Australian relief worker helicopter pilots admire the health of the survivors "Did you ever see such Poms?". Can even remember their calculating what supplies to lay and working out that packet soup and vitamin tablets could keep you going.
Was published in hard-back by one of the lesser publishers that also did romances and westerns. Dust jacket was more dramatic than the book.
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Post by Matthew on Oct 29, 2010 15:44:41 GMT
Like World in Winter a lot and his characters are more real somehow. It was a great book and I will need to get my hands on a copy again. I am surprised that nobody has ever thought of adapting it for the small screen. Where I thought it clever was the bits set in Africa and what happened there with the power relationship reversed and the idea of an expedition coming up a frozen Thames in Hovercraft is a cracking one. IIRC the whole 'climate change' threat in the 70's and 80's seemed to be of fears of a return to an ice age which stands in contrast to our current 'global warming' hysteria. |
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