Antarctica, Kim Stanley Robinson
Antarctica, Kim Stanley Robinson
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Antarctica

Author: Kim Stanley Robinson

Narrator: Adam Verner

Unabridged: 19 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/29/2021

Synopsis

The award-winning author of the Mars trilogy takes readers to the last pure wilderness on Earth in this powerful and majestic novel.It is a stark and inhospitable place, where the landscape itself poses a challenge to survival, yet its strange, silent beauty has long fascinated scientists and adventurers.Now Antarctica faces an uncertain future. The international treaty which protects the continent is about to dissolve, clearing the way for Antarctica’s resources to be plundered, its eerie beauty to be savaged. As politicians wrangle over its fate, major corporations begin probing for its hidden riches. Adventurers come, as they have for more than a century, seeking the wild, untamed land even as they endanger it with their ever-growing numbers. And radical environmentalists carry out a covert campaign of sabotage to reclaim the land from those who would destroy it for profit. All who come here have their own agenda, and all will fight to ensure their vision of the future for the remote and awe-inspiring world at the South Pole.

About Kim Stanley Robinson

Kim Stanley Robinson is a New York Times bestseller and winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards. He is the author of more than twenty books, including the bestselling Mars trilogy and the critically acclaimed Forty Signs of Rain, The Years of Rice and Salt, and 2312. In 2008, he was named a "Hero of the Environment" by Time magazine, and he works with the Sierra Nevada Research Institute. He lives in Davis, California.

About Adam Verner

Adam Verner is a full-time narrator who has recorded over 250 audiobook titles. The recipient of multiple Earphones awards, including for Pavilion of Women by Pearl S. Buck, he has also been nominated for Voice Arts Awards by the Society of Voice Arts and Sciences. He holds an MFA in Acting from the Chicago College of the Performing Arts at Roosevelt University.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bradley on July 19, 2019

Almost every time I read a KSR book, I'm either awestruck, amazed at the scope, or I have to say something silly like, "Every time I read a KSR book, it's the favorite book I've read by him!" Well, guess what? Seriously, though, this one has the added distinction of KSR actually having been to Antarc......more

Goodreads review by Jan on January 27, 2011

Kim Stanley Robinson's Antarctica is the rare sort of book that can make the walls dissolve around you while reading it, so that you are no longer surrounded by the comfortable environs of your living room, or bedroom, but rather are completely immersed in the world described by the novelist: in thi......more

Goodreads review by Corey on January 25, 2023

blue sky brown valley white snow Antarctica by Kim Stanley Robinson is not just a story, it is a journey through history, an exploration of Antarctica both past and present, and a glimpse into the modern day continent; the fight to preserve the land, the people living and working there, and multiple po......more

Goodreads review by Adam on July 09, 2016

Wonderful. Kim Stanley Robinson brings his imagination and joie-de-vivre to bear on yet another strange corner of the solar system. I loved the ferals: technological nomads who can't hunt and gather on the barren continent, and so instead they fish and farm. Mobile agriculture! It's one of those sci-......more

Quotes

“Compelling characters…a rich and dense story…Robinson has succeeded not only in drawing human characters but also in bringing Antarctica to life.” Washington Post Book World

“A gripping tale of adventure on the ice.” Publishers Weekly

“Passionate, informed…Vastly entertaining.” Kirkus Reviews

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