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LoveReading Says
With a unique premise, viciously stunning location, all-consuming plot, and captivating characters, this is an unforgettable novel. With no notice, humanity has to leave everything they know and head for Antarctica, with a thirty day deadline, those that arrive in time then face a desperate battle for survival. Two main timelines create a vivid jagged edge, the first hit me in my stomach it is so immediately visual and emotional. I just had to continue reading, and was exceedingly put out when I had to leave Cold People even a second. Tom Rob Smith makes this section of the book feel as though it could happen tomorrow, I was part of the surge desperately heading towards Antarctica, fully of aware of my own mortality. The main characters feel touchable, relatable, magnificently alive with dynamic energy. Antarctica came as an electrifying shock, I felt the stark differences through to my core, the ice and the future hammering into the fight to rebuild humanity. I hope there is more to come in this tale, there should be! If you love speculative, dystopian, science fiction, or just fiercely breathtaking tales you can easily fall into, then I can highly recommend this novel to you. Powerful and piercing, Cold People throws imagination into the icy wilds of tomorrow with perfectly intense storytelling.
Liz Robinson
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Cold People Synopsis
What if the only hope for survival becomes the greatest threat?
From the brilliant, bestselling author of Child 44 comes a suspenseful and fast-paced novel about a colony of global apocalypse survivors seeking to reinvent civilisation under the most extreme conditions imaginable.
The world has fallen. Without warning, a mysterious and omnipotent force has claimed the planet for their own. There are no negotiations, no demands, no reasons given for their actions. All they have is a message: humanity has thirty days to reach the one place on Earth where they will be allowed to exist… Antarctica.
Cold People follows the journeys of a handful of those who endure the frantic exodus to the most extreme environment on the planet. But their goal is not merely to survive the present. Because as they cling to life on the ice, the remnants of their past swept away, they must also confront the urgent challenge: can they change and evolve rapidly enough to ensure humanity’s future? Can they build a new society in the sub-zero cold?
Original and imaginative, as profoundly intimate as it is grand in scope, Cold People is a masterful and unforgettable epic.
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9781471133121 |
| Publication date: |
25th April 2024 |
| Author: |
Tom Rob Smith |
| Publisher: |
Simon & Schuster Ltd |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pagination: |
453 pages |
| Primary Genre |
Science Fiction
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About Tom Rob Smith
Born in 1979 to a Swedish mother and an English father, Tom Rob Smith's bestselling novels in the Child 44 trilogy were international publishing sensations. Among its many honours, Child 44 won the International Thriller Writer Award for Best First Novel, the Galaxy Book Award for Best New Writer, the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award, and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and the inaugural Desmond Elliot Prize. Child 44 is now a major motion picture starring Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace and Gary Oldman.
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