Antarctica
Kim Stanley Robinson
Bantam
<span>The award-winning author of the Mars trilogy  takes readers to the last pure wilderness on Earth in this powerful and  majestic novel.</span><span><br> </span><span>“</span><span>Antarctica</span><span> may well be the best novel of the best ecological novelist around.”—</span><span>Locus</span><span><br> &nbsp;<br>  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.<br> 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,&nbsp;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&nbsp;the remote and awe-inspiring world at the  South Pole.<br> &nbsp;<br> </span><span>Praise for </span><span>Antarctica</span><span><br> “Forbidding yet fascinating, like the continent it describes . . . echoes Jon Krakauer’s </span><span>Into Thin Air</span><span>.”</span><span>—</span><span>People</span><span><br> “[</span><span>Antarctica</span><span>]  should be included in any short-list of books about the frozen  continent.... Compelling characters...a rich and dense story...Robinson  has succeeded not only in drawing human characters but also in bringing  Antarctica to life. Whatever happens in the outer world,&nbsp;</span><span>Antarctica</span><span>—both the book and the continent—will become part of the reader's interior landscape.”</span><span>—</span><span>The Washington Post Book World</span><span><br></span>