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Iceman
In the distant future, fire and ice can lead to revolution...
Jacinta was a starborn noblewoman and cyber-linked ship's navigator, ignorant of the strange ways of planet Earth in its second Ice Age. When her shuttle crashes on a desolate patch of Earth along with Michael, the dashing young officer, they have to depend on each other to survive the deadly climate and hope for rescue. In Michael grows a burning passion and he hopes he might see Jacinta again after their rescue. She has other hopes, for a life in space.
Regardless of what either might want, Jacinta's uncle, the powerful head of the Consortium and enforcer of the Consortium's rigid, repressive social rules, would never allow them to even see each other... Or would he? Was there a hungry fire in Jacinta's and Michael's hearts that could melt a whole planet of ice?
Jacinta was a starborn noblewoman and cyber-linked ship's navigator, ignorant of the strange ways of planet Earth in its second Ice Age. When her shuttle crashes on a desolate patch of Earth along with Michael, the dashing young officer, they have to depend on each other to survive the deadly climate and hope for rescue. In Michael grows a burning passion and he hopes he might see Jacinta again after their rescue. She has other hopes, for a life in space.
Regardless of what either might want, Jacinta's uncle, the powerful head of the Consortium and enforcer of the Consortium's rigid, repressive social rules, would never allow them to even see each other... Or would he? Was there a hungry fire in Jacinta's and Michael's hearts that could melt a whole planet of ice?
- GenresScience Fiction
185 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published November 1, 1991
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Cynthia Felice
16 books12 followersAn American science fiction writer. Her first novel, Godsfire, and her first short story, "David and Lindy", were published in 1978. She and Connie Willis have co-written three novels that are often considered young adult fiction, according to Willis.
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December 9, 2023
I didn't expect this to be very good, it looked like a budget edition SF, but it was really quite good, very unusual. I don't think I've ever read anything quite like it. I was surprised it was written in 1991; it had the feel of 70s or earlier SF, before major social changes with feminism.
It creates this far future society where some families still treat women like chattel, which was a little hard to believe in terms of the future esp since other organisations treated them normally (eg the Corps, which she joined). Everyone's racist and classist, too. Supposedly earthlings went off and started life on other planets and on ships, when Earth encountered a second ice age, but some survived and a long while later the civilised spacefarers come back and start taking over, making money out of the art and archaeological heritage under the ice while the icemen and their families starve and shiver. Some are thus patriots/terrorists. Everyone's only given so much of a chance depending who their families or sponsors are.
But I slowly got quite intrigued by the story. I expected it to be more of a romance, advertised as about their passionate relationship, but it was not really like that at all. An enjoyable read.
It creates this far future society where some families still treat women like chattel, which was a little hard to believe in terms of the future esp since other organisations treated them normally (eg the Corps, which she joined). Everyone's racist and classist, too. Supposedly earthlings went off and started life on other planets and on ships, when Earth encountered a second ice age, but some survived and a long while later the civilised spacefarers come back and start taking over, making money out of the art and archaeological heritage under the ice while the icemen and their families starve and shiver. Some are thus patriots/terrorists. Everyone's only given so much of a chance depending who their families or sponsors are.
But I slowly got quite intrigued by the story. I expected it to be more of a romance, advertised as about their passionate relationship, but it was not really like that at all. An enjoyable read.
July 24, 2013
This story was really good, it was just too short. I was absorbed all the way through but I'm giving it three stars because I felt like the end was a cop out. It had the elements of a fascinating tale including revolutionaries fighting social injustice, oppressed women, a unique take on future earth and a budding romance that just doesn't culminate into anything because the story ends so abruptly. However, if you can get past the dated cover art, it's a fun read.
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