
Maximum Ice
Kay Kenyon
#6388 of 8,085 books · #1550 in Science Fiction
Shortlisted for the Philip K. Dick Award (2003).
More than two hundred years after leaving Earth to build a colony among the stars, the Star Road returns home to escape the ravages of space radiation, only to find a much-changed world, a planet on the verge of extinction, whose surface is covered by a strange substance resembling ice under the control of a pseudospiritual order that has enslaved Earth.
- Publisher
- Spectra
- ISBN-13
- 9780553583762
- Genre
- Topics
- Colonization and homecomingSurvival on a changed EarthReligious control and rebellion
Awards
- Philip K. Dick AwardShortlisted(2003)
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