Genre Polar Fiction (Lost Cities, Monsters, Aliens, Nazis,
Russians, nukes, viruses, 'eco-porn', etc ) |
| Pole | Year | Title | Author | Comment | Theme |
| N |
1818 |
Frankenstein |
Mary Shelley |
the original! |
|
| S |
1885 |
Revi-Lona |
Frank Cowan |
all-female society in Antarctica |
|
| N |
1901 |
A Romance of the Polar Pit |
Robert Ames Bennet |
4 explorers in hot air balloon crash in Arctic and find Norse colony and dinosaurs. Reprinted in 2009, 2011 |
|
| S |
1909 |
Penguin Island |
Anatole France |
Trans. from French; penguins suddenly change into men |
|
| N, S |
1910 |
To the Poles by Airship |
Alfred E Mason |
Fictional round the world trip to both poles |
|
| N |
1927 |
The Light From Sealonia |
Arthur Barker |
Arctic civilizations, "one good - populated by religious green-eyed blotchy
people, one bad - populated by dark & lovely alcoholic hedonists" |
|
| S |
Jan 1928 |
In Amundsen's Tent |
John Martin Leahy |
in Weird Tales, online
here |
|
| S |
1929 |
The Great Adventure |
John Taine |
Lost worlds & dinosaurs under Antarctica. Many
reprints including in Famous Fantastic Mysteries in 1944, & a 1959
Ace paperback with a cover of a blonde escaping from a dinosaur. |
|
| N |
Feb, Mar 1931 |
Phalanxes of Atlans |
F. Van Wyck Mason |
novella in Astounding Stories serial, lost Atlantis in the Arctic. Reprinted in 2010 |
|
| S |
1932 |
Beyond the Rim |
S. Fowler Wright |
Under the Antarctic ice, three British travelers discover
a lost civilization descended from 17th-c religious fanatics, & must fight
to save themselves from being burned as heretics. Reprinted in 2009. |
|
| N |
June 1933 |
Doc Savage: The Polar Treasure |
Kenneth Robeson |
Pulp serial from the 1930s. Lost treasure in the Arctic icecap. Doc Savage had a secret
hideout in the Arctic 'Fortress of Solitude' (before Superman).
Reissued 2007. |
|
| S |
1935 |
Dian of the Lost Land |
Edison Marshall |
Lost Cro-Magnons & Neanderthals in Antarctica. Reprinted
in pulp serial Famous Fantastic Mysteries, Apr 1949, cover
here. Reprinted in 2008 |
|
| N |
Mar 1935 |
Doc Savage: Land of Always Night |
Kenneth Robeson |
Underground civilization in hollow earth in the Arctic.
Reissued 2007. |
|
| S |
Oct 1936 |
Doc Savage: The South Pole Terror |
Lester Dent |
Amusing cover
here, showing the Doc
& character Velma Crane, the 'outstanding he-woman of the day', noted
for her lack of interest in men;
a famous aviatrix who found gold in Antarctica. Reissued in 2007.
|
|
| S |
Feb, Mar, Apr 1936 |
At the Mountains of Madness |
H. P. Lovecraft |
lost city in Antarctica. Written in 1931, serialized in
Astounding Stories. Cover
here. Many reprints. |
|
| S |
Aug 1938 |
Who Goes There? |
John Campbell |
novella in Astounding Stories serial, the basis of "The Thing" movies. Not
on the cover! many reprints, including in 2009. |
|
| S |
Feb 1938 |
The Fatal Quadrant |
Arthur Burks |
novella in Astounding Stories serial; robots explore Antarctica, rebel against
the humans, and find lost race under the ice |
|
| S |
1940 |
At the Mountains of Murkiness |
Arthur C Clarke |
parody of Lovecraft, originally in a fanzine but
since reprinted in a few collections |
|
| N |
1941-47 |
Nelvana of the Northern Lights |
Adrian Dingle |
Canada's first comic book superhero, & the world's first
female superhero. Based on Inuit legends, Nelvana was the daughter of the king
of the northern lights & wore a miniskirt while battling Nazis.
She lived among the Eskimos, could turn into dry ice,
travelled at the speed of light,
& could become invisible by blending in with the Aurora Borealis.
One cover
here |
|
| S |
1945 |
The Man Who Missed the War |
David Wheatley |
Antarctic lost race attacked by Atlantean survivors |
|
| S |
1949 |
The Survivors=The White South |
Hammond Innes |
whaling factory ship stuck in Antarctic ice with murderer aboard |
|
| S |
1949 |
White City |
Paralee Sweeten Sutton |
telepathic advanced lost race near South Pole |
|
| S |
1950 |
The Secret of the South |
John E. Gurdon |
Lost race 'Polarians', Hollow Earth, Antarctica |
|
| S |
1953 |
The Space Merchants |
F. Pohl, C. Kornbluth |
partly in Antarctica |
|
| S |
1953 |
At the South Pole |
Steve Muffatti |
Casper the Friendly Ghost wants friends at the South Pole |
|
| S |
1954 |
Pawn in Jeopardy |
Adam Hall (Elleston Trevor) |
Many years later, members of a 1952 Antarctic expedition are murdered one by one
|
|
| S |
1955 |
Reprieve from Paradise |
H. Chandler Elliot |
2000 years after nuclear war, survivors in Polynesia vs
those in Antarctica. Amusing cover
here |
|
| S |
1956 |
Penguin for Your Thoughts |
|
Casper brings baby penguin to the South Pole |
|
| S |
1957 |
The Superbrain of Jimmy Olsen |
Superman Comic |
Superman prevents the Earth from blowing apart by
adding mass to the south pole |
|
| S |
Sept 1957 |
At Home Among the Stars |
E. K. Jarvis |
cover story in Fantastic Science Fiction; aliens visit IGY Antarctica |
|
| S |
1957 |
The 13th Immortal |
Robert Silverberg |
first novel by this famed SF writer, reprinted in 2004 & 2009.
Antarctic empire in postwar Earth. |
|
| S |
1958 |
Ordeal by Innocence |
Agatha Christie |
Explorer returns from Antarctica to find he's the alibi for
a convicted & deceased murder suspect
but missed the trial. Family murder whodunit, no action in
Antarctica. |
|
| S |
1960 |
The Falkland Islands Mystery |
Sea Lion |
Nazis take over the Falkland Islands |
|
| S |
1962 |
A Grue of Ice |
Geoffrey Jenkins |
Thriller set in Antarctica (US title The Disappearing Island)
|
|
| N |
1963 |
Ice Station Zebra |
Alistair Maclean |
oil fire at a British meteorological station built on an ice floe in the Arctic Sea. Movie version has Rock Hudson.
|
 |
| N |
1964 |
Day The Oceans Overflowed |
Charles Fontenay |
|
|
| S |
1965 |
Antarctic Secret |
Michael Barrett |
|
|
| S |
1965 |
The Red Dust |
Bee Baldwin |
NZ: Mad scientist nukes Antarctica to release
proteinous red dust which spreads around the world & kills almost
everyone, in order to make money off his antidote. Small group of immune
survivors in NZ conclude they're the morally superior
next step in evolution. |
|
| S |
1967 |
Monday at McMurdo |
David Burke |
US Congressman in plane crash in Antarctica |
|
| S |
1967 |
The White Mantle |
Maurice Owen |
NZ?, meteors cool Earth & the icecaps spread. USA & China build spaceships to send youths & white & Chinese women impregnated by the other 'race' to Alpha Centauri.
All others are supposed to die quietly.
Much racial anxiety expressed. |
|
| S |
1967 |
Farewell to the Bomb |
Augustus C. Webb |
demon in human form collects 50,000 people in
underground cave system in Antarctica & prepares to nuke Earth.
Story jumps all over & makes little sense.
Vantage Press (oldest US self-pub co) |
|
| S |
1969 |
The Ice Admiral |
Jack McClenaghan |
attempt to rescue a dying man during winter in
McMurdo Sound |
|
| S |
1969 |
The Ice Schooner |
Jack McClenaghan |
icy wasteland of post-apocolyptic Earth. Revised in 1977 and 1985 |
|
| S |
1969 |
Indoctrinaire |
Christopher Priest |
Biochemist taken from secret pharmaceutical lab in
Antarctica & brought to post-nuclear war future, did his
discovery contribute to the world chaos? Mostly in Brazil, begins
& ends in Antarctica.
|
|
| S |
1969 |
Horsemen from Nowhere |
Aleksandr and Sergei Abramov |
RUSSIAN, Soviet Antarctic expedition meets aliens who
are duplicating humans & technology, & stealing the polar ice cap.
Still in print in English! |
|
| S |
1969 |
Last Continent |
Edmund Cooper |
2000 yrs after
Earth self-destructed in a race war, descendants of the Black people who left
for Mars return to find white descendents of a science station
surviving in a now tropical Antarctica. |
|
| N |
1970 |
A Cage of Ice |
Duncan Kyle |
CIA tries to stop Russian plot to melt polar ice caps |
|
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| N |
1971 |
North Cape |
Joe Poyer |
Russian vs American agents search for downed spy plane in Arctic Norway |
|
| S |
1971 |
East of Desolation |
Jack Higgins |
Plane crashes in Cape Desolation, Greenland |
|
| S |
1973 |
The Ice People |
Rene Barjavel |
FRENCH; 100,000 yr old Earth civilization at South Pole. English trans. is first Antarctic novel I remember ever reading as a kid |
|
| N |
1973 |
Target 5 |
Colin Forbes |
Soviet defector on icepack near Greenland |
|
| N |
1974 |
Rage Under the Arctic |
Basil Jackson |
Submarine oil tanker causes massive spill in the arctic |
|
| N |
1974 |
The Ice Goddess |
Paul Edwards |
missing scientist leads to 'abominable sisterhood' found
in the Arctic |
|
| S |
1975 |
Symbol of Vengeance |
David Mariner |
in Antarctica (?) |
|
| S |
1975 |
The Star Web |
George Zebrowski |
UN research team finds 100,000 yr old spaceship buried in the ice in Antarctica, it takes them to the Star-web |
|
| N |
1975 |
Spoil! |
Ernest Perrault |
oil derrick near North Pole catches on fire |
|
| N |
1975 |
Iceberg |
Clive Cussler |
Yacht headed to meet with White House found burned inside an iceberg |
|
| N |
1975 |
Night Without End |
Alistair MacLean |
airliner crashes on the Greenland Icecap near a scientific station |
|
| S |
1976 |
The HAB Theory |
Allan Eckert |
End of the world apocalyptic (Christian?) sci-fi |
|
| S |
1976 |
Dr Who and the 10th Planet |
Gerry Davis |
novelization of BBC TV show, robotic Cybermen arrive at the
South Pole |
|
| N |
1976 |
Death Merchant: The Zemlya Expedition |
Joseph Rosenberger |
Russians build undersea city in Arctic, Americans infiltrate |
|
| N |
1976 |
Whiteout! |
Duncan Kyle |
sabotage at Arctic military camp |
|
| N/S |
1977 |
Black As the Pit, From Pole to Pole |
Steven Utley & Howard Waldrop |
novella orig. pub in New Dimensions 7 & reprinted in several other anthologies; Frankenstein goes to Siberia & travels through the Hollow
Earth to Antarctica |
|
| N |
1977 |
Death Merchant: The Pole Star Secret |
Joseph Rosenberger |
Russians set up secret arctic base to study weather control |
|
| S |
1977 |
Antarctic Raider |
William McLaughlin |
Nazis try to steal British and Norwegian whaling ships |
|
| S |
1977 |
So Thin is the Line |
William McLaughlin |
Sequel to above |
|
| S |
1978 |
Ice |
James Follett |
Giant iceberg escapes from Antarctica, heads north & threatens NYC. Rewritten as Second Atlantis in 1998. |
|
| S |
1978 |
The Moon Pool |
John B Ballem |
Thriller on Canadian Arctic oil rig |
|
| N |
1979 |
Death Merchant: Op. Mind Murder |
Joseph Rosenberger |
Russians conducting nasty medical experiments on WWII prisoners on Arctic island |
|
| N |
1979 |
Ice Bomb Zero |
Nick Carter |
chinese base below Arctic ice |
|
| N |
1979 |
Ice Brothers |
Sloan Wilson |
US coast guard in Greenland |
|
| N |
1979 |
Poseiden's Shadow |
A. P. Kobryn |
US submarine in Soviet Arctic waters |
|
| S |
1979 |
Ice Quake |
Crawford Kilian |
Sudden global climate change catastrophe, stranding people at New Shackleton Station in Antarctica |
|
| S |
1979 |
Storehouses of the Snow |
Ed Woodard & Heather Woodard Bischoff |
worldwide disaster as the Antarctic ice sheet melts |
|
| S |
1979 |
White for Danger |
David Stevens |
search for secret Russian base in Antarctica |
|
| S |
1979 |
Down to a Sunless Sea |
David Graham |
A 747 in flight during the sudden nuclear apocalypse looks for a place to land for survival- & ends up in Antarctica. Different ending in British version? |
|
| S |
1979 |
Hungry as the Sea |
Wilbur Smith |
Cruise ship stranded in south Atlantic seas, reprinted 1999 |
|
| S |
1980 |
Dr Who and the Seeds of Doom |
Phillip Hinchcliffe |
from TV series; alien pods uncovered in Antarctica |
|
| S |
1980 |
White Continent |
D. C. Poyer |
suspense, conquering Antarctica for fuel |
|
| N/S |
1980 |
6th Winter |
D. Orgill & J Gribb |
The coming Ice Age... |
 |
| S |
1980 |
Death in a Cold Climate |
Robert Barnard |
murder in Tromso, Norway |
|
| S |
1980 |
Icescape |
Gerry Nolan |
AUS, plane crash in Antarctica |
|
| S |
1980 |
Frozen Heart |
Daphne Clair |
Spunky young female Kiwi journalist winters in
Antarctica & 'defrosts' the icy macho station commander.
Mills & Boon |
|
| S |
1980 |
Genesis |
W. A. Harbinson |
first book in series of FIVE about UFOs in Antarctica |
|
| S |
1980 |
An Enemy of the State |
Paul Wilson |
Brief polar: Photosynthetic cattle
in Antarctica are the new food source, grown
with the help of orbiting space mirrors reflecting down sunlight.
1st in series of 5 about a galactic empire of Earth...
|
|
| S |
1981 |
Fire Below Zero |
Nico Mastorakis & Barnaby Conrad |
cover shows an 'American James Bond' with gun, plus nukes,
glaciers, & babes |
|
| S |
1981 |
Alaskan Crude |
Bernerd Engel |
Russian sabotage of Alaskan oil pipeline |
|
| S |
1981 |
Big Ice |
Wilfred McNeilly |
Iceberg towed from Antarctica to Saudi Arabia |
|
| N |
1981 |
Death in a High Latitude |
J. R. L. Anderson |
Kidnapped oil magnate in Arctic |
|
| S |
1982 |
Operation: McMurdo Sound |
Nick Carter |
biological nerve gas kills people at South Pole |
|
| N |
1982 |
Athabasca |
Alistair MacLean |
sabotage in Canadian and Alaskan ice fields |
|
| S |
1982 |
A Ravel of Waters |
Geoffrey Jenkins |
biological nerve gas kills people at South Pole |
|
| S |
1982 |
Lost Valley |
Dudley Bromley |
secret expedition time travels in Antarctica |
|
| N |
1982 |
Flight 902 is Down |
Hal Fishman |
new weapons system brings down an American airliner in the Russian arctic |
|
| S |
1983 |
Whitefire |
Glover Wright |
|
|
| N |
1983 |
The Ice Raid |
Richard Cox |
alternate cold war history, Russia takes over Spitsbergen and threatens Europe |
|
| S |
1983 |
The Last Blue |
Erik van Ees |
"whale hunting and sea adventure in Antarctica" |
|
| S |
1983 |
The Last Gasp |
Trevor Hoyle |
Antarctic scientist discovers that Earth is running out of Oxygen.
Recently optioned for film script. |
 |
| S |
1984 |
Airship Nine |
Thomas Block |
Antarctic residents only survivors of nuclear war |
|
| S |
1984 |
Under the Freeze |
George Bartram |
sunken ship in Antarctica with Russian plutonium |
|
| S |
1984 |
South of the Sun |
Laurie Paige |
Young psych grad student goes to Antarctica, falls
for expedition leader who goes hot & cold before finally
proposing. She declines, departs, but accepts when he returns
to the US, & they head off to winter-over at South Pole. Silly but at
least she's not 'icy'. |
|
| S |
Aug. 1984 |
Batman: Antarctic Nightmare |
Doug Moench |
Batman chases the Penguin to Antarctica |
|
| N/S |
1984 |
Circumpolar |
Richard Lupoff |
on an alternate Earth, famous aviators compete in a
circumpolar race, & meet undiscovered civilizations |
|
| N |
1985 |
Icebreaker |
John Gardner |
James Bond on Ice, chasing neo-Nazis in the Arctic |
|
| N |
1985 |
Northlight |
Adam Hall |
American submarine destroyed in Russian arctic waters |
|
| S |
1985 |
Death Merchant: The Atlantean Horror |
Joseph Rosenberger |
Russians vs Americans in Antarctica & a prediction of nuclear holocaust dating back to the lost city of Atlantis |
|
| S |
1985 |
White Death |
Nick Carter |
US & Soviet agents chase a genocidal Russian scientist in
Antarctica. Killmaster #203 |
|
| S |
1985 |
Seize the Wind |
John Gordon Davis |
airship to Antarctica to rescue people from a plane crash
on the Beardmore glacier |
|
| S |
1986 |
Red Ice |
N. Barker, A. Masters |
Russian terrorists in Antarctic waters |
|
| S |
1986 |
Cold Sea Rising |
Richard Moran |
Ross Ice Shelf splits off & drifts to NY, with a Russian
military base on it |
|
| S |
1986 |
Watchmen |
Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons |
finale features Antarctica, movie version in 2009 |
|
| S |
1986 |
This Is the Way The World Ends |
James Morrow |
Six survivors of worldwide nuclear apocalypse are brought to Antarctica & put on trial |
|
| N |
1986 |
Pipeline |
Milt Machlin |
Building the Alaska pipeline |
|
| N |
1986 |
Patterson's Volunteers |
John Smith |
American military squadron disappears over Greenland |
|
| S |
1986 |
Overflight |
Charles Neider |
Depressed history professor is the lone survivor of plane crash into Mt Erebus; he returns to Antarctica to help scatter the ashes- & his
helicopter crashes into the mountain |
|
| N |
1988 |
Death Merchant: The Greenland Mystery |
Joseph Rosenberger |
Americans vs Russians at a US secret polar weather station which found an alien city buried under the ice cap |
|
| N |
1988 |
Treasure |
Clive Cussler |
Dirk Pitt tracks treasures of Alexandria, incluing to Greenland |
|
| N |
1988 |
Cold is the Sea |
Edward Beach |
American vs Russian submarines in the Arctic ocean |
|
| S |
1988 |
The Icemen: A Novel of Antarctica |
M. E. Morris |
Nazis, Arab terrorists, biological warfare |
|
| S |
1988 |
Perfidious Perils of Pusillanimous Prankster |
Chuck Pfarrer |
Superman: Supergirl found in Antarctica |
|
| N |
1988 |
Murder in a Cold Climate |
Scott Young |
Inuk Canadian Mountie investigates murder of
Native rights spokeman, first of 2 |
|
| S |
1988 |
Days of Starlight |
Craig Harrison |
NZ: at an Antarctic base with racial tension, a powerful
crystal is found, left behind by aliens who have been recording human history.
And apparently, the aliens are humanoid, & Black... A good one, but OP, hard to find. |
|
| N |
1988 |
Wolf Winter |
Claire Francis |
thriller with Norwegians, Russians, and Finns in Lapland in the early 1960s |
|
| N |
1988 |
Silent Hunter |
Charles Taylor |
Russian vs American submarines in arctic waters off of Norway |
|
| N |
1989 |
Under the Ice |
Richard Henrick |
cold war techno in Arctic |
|
| N |
1989 |
Red Arctic |
Richard Rohmer |
in Canadian and Russian Arctic |
|
| S |
1989 |
The Last Ship |
William Brinkley |
after global nuclear war, the last sub heads to Antarctica |
|
| S |
1989 |
False Cross |
Stephen Forbes |
Polar scientist & defecting Russian woman face danger in
Antarctica. Reprinted (self-pub) in 2009 |
 |
| S |
Oct 1989 |
Antarctic Solitude |
Jurgens Perez |
Adventures of Superman, no 459 |
|
| N |
1990 |
Northern Edge |
Barbara Quick |
young woman impulsively joins ecological research group in
Alaska |
|
| N/S |
1990 |
The Hollow Earth |
Rudy Rucker |
'The Narrative of Mason Algiers Reynolds of Virginia'; tribute to 19th c hollow Earth tales of Poe, Verne, etc |
|
| S |
1990 |
The Red Death |
Max Marlow |
mysterious disease threatens southern hemisphere.
Pseudonym of Christopher and Diane Nicole |
|
| S |
1990 |
Cold Dead: Super Phoenix Force, No 3 |
Gar Wilson |
illegal nuclear testing in Antarctica | .
|
| N |
1990 |
The Child Garden |
Geoff Ryman |
with genetically advanced human (and lesbian) polar bears |
|
| S |
1990 |
Justice League Antarctica |
Keith Giffen & J.M. DeMatteis |
temporary branch of Justice League America |
|
| S |
1991 |
Stranger Suns |
George Zebrowski |
Alien spaceship found buried in the ice in Antarctica takes the exploration
team around the universe and to alternate Earths
(expanded & revised version of The Star Web from 1975) |
|
| S |
1991 |
Precipice |
Bob Langley |
crashed Soviet weapons satellite activated under Antarctic ice |
|
| S |
1991 |
The Ice |
Louis Charbonneau |
US conglomerate vs Antarctic scientists over oil spill |
|
| S |
1991 |
Dream Maker |
W.A. Harbinson |
alien virus causes hole in Ozone layer &
makes people see ghosts, visions of the dead, & UFOs |
|
| N |
1991 |
Murder on the Iditarod Trail |
Sue Henry |
first in a continuing series of Alaska mysteries |
|
| N |
1991 |
Raise the Red Dawn |
Bart Davis |
techno-thriller, Russian sub frozen in arctic ice cap |
|
| S |
1991 |
Hatching Stones |
Anna Wilson |
in a future world with reproduction by cloning, the men
kept Britain & exiled the women to an Antarctic island. |
|
| S |
1991 |
Antarctic Fury |
S. Livingston |
US and Russia fight over oil found near McMurdo |
|
| S |
1991 |
Thing From Another World |
Chuck Pfarrer |
Dark Horse Comics, 2 parts |
|
| S |
1992 |
Thing: Climate of Fear |
Chuck Pfarrer |
Dark Horse Comics, 4 parts |
|
| S |
1992 |
Isvik |
Hammond Innes |
Ghost ship in Antarctic Ice |
|
| N |
1992 |
Voyage of the Devilfish |
Michael DiMercurio |
techno-thriller, Russian sub beneath arctic |
 |
| N |
1992 |
WW III: Arctic Front |
Ian Slater |
American tanks vs Siberian Republic |
|
| N |
1992 |
A Cold Day for Murder |
Dana Stabenow |
First of MANY in continuing
series about female detective in Alaska |
|
| S |
1992 |
Freeze Frame |
David Smith | Australian; French attack eco-terrorists
with assistance from Brazil to cover up their secret mining operation in
Antartica |
|
| S |
1993 |
Thing: Questionable Research |
David de Vries |
Dark Horse Comics, a parallel reality where MacReady is not around to stop the Thing & it escapes to NZ. |
|
| N |
1993 |
Smilla's Sense of Snow |
Peter Hoeg |
DANISH; became intl. bestseller in English, meteorites in Arctic |
|
| S |
1993 |
Thunder of Erebus |
Payne Harrison |
Antarctic cold war techno-thriller |
|
| N |
1993 |
Murder Most Grizzly |
Elizabeth Quinn |
First in a series of mysteries about a female
Anchorage-based investigator for the Wild America Society |
|
| N |
1993 |
Arctic Peril |
Max Marlow |
airliner crash in far North, survivors battle weather
& a murderous Eskimo
| |
| S |
1993 |
Iceberg |
David Banks |
'The New Dr Who Adventures'; the evil Cybermen return,
& fight the people trying to save Earth based in Antarctica |
|
| S |
1993 |
El Sindrome de Scott |
Raul Guerra Garrido |
in Spanish; murder in Antarctica |
|
| S |
1994 |
Ice Wolf | Richard Henrick |
old Nazis looks for buried treasure in Antarctic cave |
|
| S |
1994 |
Target Antarctica |
Hammond Innes |
Hercules airplane stuck on iceberg |
|
| S |
1994 |
Groom Unknown |
Kathy Clark |
scientist goes to Ant. -in a wedding gown- to marry
station cmnder,
known only through email (bad old days pre-sexting).
Oops, he's a colleague who
thought her icy.
After 'angry kisses' &
vodka-soaked nights in a shack on the Ice, she's 'defrosted' & in love. Gross!
|
|
| S |
1994 |
White Night |
William Lovejoy |
South American terrorists vs U.N. in Antarctica |
|
| S |
1994 |
Anti-Ice |
Stephen Baxter |
19th c alternate history; energy source `anti-ice' from a meteor found at South Pole |
|
| S |
1994 |
Hot Planet |
Michael Burns |
80 deg in Antarctica, Ice Sheets collapsing, ozone layer gone, eco-terrorists blow up oil refineries & Americans shoot each other at gas station queues |
|
| N |
1994 |
The Empire of Ice |
Richard Moran |
new ice age is set off by undersea volcano which engulfs northern countries, including Britain |
|
| N |
1994 |
The Iceberg |
Peter Tonkin |
nuclear waste from an accident hidden in the arctic
ocean is mixed into an iceberg brought south to relieve drought |
|
| S |
1995 |
Earth Winter |
Richard Moran |
sequel to above, southern countries work to keep
northern ones in the ice |
|
| N |
1995 |
Icebound |
Dean Koontz |
Arctic experiment |
|
| S |
1995 |
Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica |
John C Batchelor |
|
|
| N |
1995 |
Red Ice |
R. Karl Largent |
Russians, weapons, Arctic |
|
| N |
1995 |
Towing Jehovah |
James Morrow |
SciFi; the Vatican hires an unemployed tanker driver to tow
Gods body to a tomb in an Arctic cave |
|
| S |
1995 |
The Horrorist: Antarctica |
Jamie Delano and David Lloyd |
DC Comics, Part I Dec 1995 Part II Jan 1996 |
|
| N |
1995 |
Woman Who Married a Bear |
John Straley |
First in a series of mysteries about a PI in Sitka, Alaska |
|
| S |
1995 |
Neon Genesis Evangelion |
Yoshiyuki Sadamoto |
JAPAN, Manga. 1st in a series of 11 Vol.
Antarctica hit with mysterious explosion, ice
evaporated, sea levels rose 60m, half of humanity died, etc |
|
| S |
1996 |
Purgatory Road |
Rob Reiss |
murder, sabotage at Antarctic station |
|
| S |
1996 |
Magazine Beach |
Lewis Gannett |
Psycho Antarctic scientist & psychiatrist wife
become eco-terrorists & detonate nukes under Antarctica |
|
| S |
1996 |
Map of Power |
Tess Williams |
futurist feminist fantasy fiction from Australian author, Antarctica |
|
| S |
1996 |
Whiteout |
Sage Walker |
Antarctica only clean place in eco-ravaged Earth |
|
| S |
1996 |
Eternity Base |
Bob Mayer |
Govt worker and reporter sister ifind a secret military base while searching for their lost father in Antarctica. Reissued in 2012 |
|
| N |
1996 |
Bad Wisdom |
B Drummond & Mark Manning |
two guys travel to the North Pole to sacrafice an icon of Elvis Presley |
|
| S |
1996 |
Shock Wave |
Clive Cussler |
Dirk Pitt tracks Australian diamonds, including to the Weddell sea |
|
| S |
1997 |
Area 51 (book 1) |
Robert Doherty |
Nine alien spacecraft discovered in Antarctica, first in a long series |
|
| N |
1997 |
Sacrament |
Clive Barker |
gay nature photographer mauled by polar bear |
|
| S |
1997 |
Field of Thunder |
Rose Flem-Ath |
thriller includes Antarctic island |
|
| N |
1997 |
Arctic Fire |
Keith Douglass |
cold war thriller, US vs Russia on Aleutian Islands |
|
| S |
1997 |
Phantom: Mission to Antarctica |
Frew Publications |
AUS |
|
| S |
1997 |
Choosers of the Slain |
James Cobb |
Argentina invades Antarctica |
|
| S |
1997 |
Carnivore |
Leigh Clark |
Antarctic station manager radiates dinosaur egg found in
the ice. T-rex hatches, grows fast, & eats everyone, except for the only
woman, a whining icy biologist who gets too attached to the T-rex. (& she 'defrosts.') Awful! |
|
| S |
1997 |
The Temple of Hashem |
Hyam Yona Becker
| ISRAEL; UN gives Israel a sliver of Ant. Religious
archaeologist from Israel & Jewish Eskimo from Greenland find a temple of Hashem in the
ice, complete with Torah scrolls & lost races. Did Judaism come
from the nice primitives, the nasty primitives, or the 8 ft purple aliens
there? Anti-science too. Triple oi vey! |
|
| S |
1997 |
Shiver |
Nikki Gemmell |
AUS; Australian journalist travels by ship to Antarctica; finds love |
|
| N |
1997 |
Love on the Line |
Laura DeHart Young |
first in series of 3 about a female park ranger in Barrow Alaska |
 |
| S |
1997 |
Midnight Tales of Torment |
Kitt Gerrard |
Bisexual British secret agent captured by Russians & sent to
Antarctica for explicit sex experiments, eventually she escapes to
American base, & more sex. Polar porn! |
|
| S |
1997 |
Ice Reich |
William Dietrich |
WWII-era adventure; Nazis, Antarctica, bio-weapons |
|
| S |
1998 |
Second Atlantis |
James Follett |
Giant iceberg escapes from Antarctica, heads north & threatens NYC. Rewritting of Ice (1978). |
|
| S |
1998 |
Icefire |
Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens |
Chinese melt Antarctica & set off a tidal wave |
|
| N |
1998 |
Deadly Exposure |
Leonard Goldberg |
giant glittering northern iceberg releasing a deadly 65-million-year-old toxin |
|
| S |
1998 |
Antarctica |
Kim S. Robinson |
In Antarctica soon after the Treaty expired: secret drilling
for oil, various groups of people trying to live there 'off the land',
eco-terrorists attacking the oil drillers, & McMurdo 'Big Dead Place' workers
organize. Better writing & more complex than most. |
|
| S |
1998 |
Godzilla at World's End |
Marc Carasini |
teenage scientists & Army Rangers join forces with Godzilla to battle ancient crystalline monsters found under the ice in Antarctica |
|
| S |
1998 |
Icewall |
William Gagliani |
Two men isolated at Antarctic base, one going `psycho'; pub. in
'Robert Bloch's Psychos'. Republished in 2010 ebook collection by author
'Shadowplays'. |
|
| S |
1998 |
Cythera |
Richard Calder |
'iatrogenic psychiatrist' and virtual reality ghost
wander the city complex of Antarctica. cyber-punk |
|
| S |
1998 |
The Hell That is Ice |
James Markert |
Satan's grandson uses portals from his base at the South
Pole to commit murder & mayhem around the world. Different from most!
(We would
have liked those portals when wintering-over). |
|
| S |
1999 |
Atlantis Found |
Clive Cussler |
genetically engineered descendants of Nazis find advanced Lost City of
Atlantis in Antarctica; plot to destroy Earth |
|
| N |
1999 |
Arctic Legacy |
Loretta Jackson & Vickie Britton |
mystery on old sea freighter in Alaskan arctic |
|
| N |
1999 |
Hunter |
James Byron Huggins |
govt secret experiments lead to ape-like beast in Alaska |
|
| S |
1999 |
Powerdown |
Peter Tonkin |
Antarctic supply ship finds murdered astronaut in Antarctica |
|
| S |
1999 |
Ice Station |
Matthew Reilly |
AUS; French vs Americans over alien spaceship buried in Antarctica |
|
| S |
1999 |
Subterranean |
James Rollins |
a telepathic race of humanlike marsupials beneath Mt Erebus |
|
| S |
1999 |
The Ice Breaker Incident |
Rayford Hammond |
murder in Antarctica |
|
| N |
1999 |
White Ice, Black Ice |
Stan Jones |
Inupiat state trooper in Alaska solves mysteries; first in series of 5 |
|
| N |
1999 |
Season of Death |
Christopher Lane |
An Inupiat Eskimo Mystery; first of a series of 4 |
|
| S |
1999 |
Whiteout |
Greg Rucka |
graphic novel, female US Marshall in Antarctica; Movie in 2009 |
|
| S |
1999 |
Whiteout: Melt |
Greg Rucka |
sequel to Whiteout |
|
| S |
1999 |
The Martians |
Kim Stanley Robinson |
in the first story Antarctica, a psychologist trains people in Antarctica for
their upcoming work on Mars |
|
| S |
1999 |
The Business |
Iain Banks |
has keyword '3. Antarctica-fiction' on title page so pops up
in database searches, but ONLY relevance is 3 statements that the
company has an Antarctic base. A dud. |
|
| S |
1999 |
Surfing Antarctica |
Lianie Shavian |
AUS; making a film about eco-sabotage, minimal
about Antarctica |
 |
| N |
2000 |
Kilo Class |
Patrick Robinson |
US vs Russian vs Chinese submarines in the Arctic |
|
| S |
2000 |
White-out |
James V. Marshall |
WWII era survival adventure thriller in Antarctica |
|
| S |
2000 |
Blind Waves |
Steven Gould |
Antarctica melts raising sea levels 100 feet, chaos ensues |
|
| S |
2000 |
The Ice Limit |
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child |
Billionaire wants to collect the world's largest meteor from a southern
Chilean island just north of the Ice limit |
|
| N |
2000 |
Revelation |
Bill Napier |
atomic bombs in Arctic |
|
| N |
2000 |
The Svalbard Passage |
Thomas Kirkwood |
Cold-war novel with US vs USSR in Norway |
|
| N |
2000 |
The Final Act |
John Watson |
searching for post-WWII Nazi gold in Greenland |
|
| S |
2000 |
Take One Man | Vivien Kelly |
young man bored with his London ad agency job makes plans to go to Antarctica. Some easily researched bad astronomy... |
|
| S |
2000 |
Requiem Antarctica |
Jane Yolen and Robert Harris |
short story, Asimov's science fiction magazine (May). Scott was a vampire... |
|
| S |
2000 |
A Colder War |
Charles Stross |
novelette 'sequel' to At the Mountains of Madness.
Spectrum SF 3, & available online
here |
|
| S |
2000 |
Antartida 1947 |
Felipe Botaya |
in Spanish, novel about Operation Highjump and Nazi base
in Antarctica. reprinted in 2010. |
|
| S |
2000 |
Iceberg Ltd |
Serge Brussolo |
in French, ship seeking crashed plane in Arctic has
disappearing sailors. |
|
| N |
2001 |
Caribou Crossing |
Kim Heacox |
big oil environmental thriller at Arctic National Wildlife
Refuge |
|
| N |
2001 |
Pandora's Curse |
Jack Du Brul | Nazi artifact, meteorites in the Arctic |
|
| N |
2001 |
No One Thinks of Greenland |
John Griesemer | in 1959, US Korean War casualties are
hidden away in a Greenland military base |
|
| S |
2001 |
Tom Clancy's Power Plays #5: Cold War |
Tom Clancy, Jerome Preisler |
Martian robot lander & crew vanish in Antarctica, base
under attack by illegal nuclear waste dumpers |
|
| N |
2001 |
Frankenstein: The Legacy |
Christopher Schildt |
3 scientists travel to North Pole & find the notes of Frankenstein's monster |
|
| N |
2001 |
Park Polar |
Adam Roberts |
dystopian novella about an overpopulated Earth in which the Arctic icepack is the last place with wildlife |
|
| S |
2001 |
Dark Winter |
William Dietrich |
South Pole winter-overs murdered one by one, starting with
the astronomers. Better than most! |
|
| N |
2001 |
Forever and the Night |
Laura DeHart Young |
female park ranger meets female Inuit in Barrow, Alaska |
 |
| S |
2001 |
The Secret Hunters |
Ranulph Fiennes |
environmentalist who survived Nazi prison camps as
a child tracks down Nazis in Antarctica |
|
| S |
Jan 2001 |
Area 52 |
Brian Haberlin |
Image Comics, 4 parts. Alien tech, weapons, and
a live one stored in Antarctica. |
|
| S |
2001 |
Searchers |
Scott Browning |
10,000 yr old man found in Antarctic ice |
|
| S |
2001 |
Adversary: Some Things are Better Left Undiscovered |
Richard Schiver |
alien knife found in Antarctica infects human |
|
| S |
2001 |
Earth of Fire, Sky of Ice |
Robert Hotchkiss |
'An Epic Fantasy Adventure'; lost civilization found in Antarctica |
|
| N |
2001 |
The Man Who Watched Trash |
Russ Madison |
young environmentalist plus his mistress & her daughter
sail a million-ton iceberg
to New York to call attention to the ozone hole |
|
| S |
2001 |
The Penguin Man |
Harvey Sawler |
Big oil in the Falklands |
|
| S |
2001 |
Hippolyte's Island |
Barbara Hodgson |
Amateur sailor looks for legendary island near Falklands |
|
| S |
2002 |
The Breath of Seals |
Lucy Jane Bledsoe |
short story, online here |
 |
| N |
2002 |
Deception Point |
Dan Brown |
possibly alien vessel at North Pole |
|
| N |
2002 |
2182 KHz |
David Masiel |
life on Arctic sea tugboats |
|
| N |
2002 |
Falling From the Sky |
Tim Goodwin |
B-52 bomber missing in Greenland |
|
| S |
2002 |
Decipher |
Stel Pavlou |
UK; techno-thriller with everything but the kitchen sink ends in Antarctica |
|
| N |
2002 |
Meltdown |
James Powlik |
radioactive waste in Arctic ocean, eco-thriller |
|
| S |
2002 |
Arctic Blast (The Executioner #288) |
Don Pendleton | Soviet extremists with missiles in Antarctica |
|
| S |
2002 |
Ice Age |
Brian Freemantle |
as the Polar regions warm, a prehistoric lethal virus spreads around the world |
|
| S |
2002 |
My Mistress, Humanity |
Chuck Rosenthal |
in a post-apocalyptic world, an astronaut & others
search for a dragon in Antarctica |
|
| S |
2002 |
Love of a Thousand Years |
Hon Ching Huang |
in CHINESE; no Eng. trans., 'in the year 2123, an explosion at the South Pole
threatens to drown the Earth & destroy all human life' |
|
| N |
2002 |
Isaac the Pirate-The Ice |
Christophe Blain |
adult graphic novel series trans. from French; Isaac heads North |
|
| S |
2002 |
Black Ice |
Juan Luis Conde |
Spanish; at a research station in Antarctica |
|
| S |
2002 |
None Shall Forget |
Herbert Pollack |
nuclear power plant in Antarctica |
|
| S |
2002 |
Tomorrow Afternoon We Die |
Herman Lloyd Bruebaker |
in 1999, US navy finds a German U boat in Antarctica |
|
| S |
2003 |
Zero Hour |
Benjamin Miller |
Antarctic subglacial volcano heats nearby seas & may create big hurricane |
|
| S |
2003 |
Black Ice |
Matt Dickinson |
Antarctic thriller, psycho burns down base |
|
| N |
2003 |
Ice Hunt |
James Rollins |
Russians & Americans rediscover Arctic base where they conducted nasty biomedical experiments on Inuit during WWII |
|
| N |
2003 |
Typhoon |
Robin White |
Arctic thriller, Russian sub under Arctic ice cap |
|
| N/S |
2003 |
Underland |
Mike Farren |
Secret US spy agency kidnaps vampire to go find Nazis living
inside of the Earth (under Antarctica but they get there
through Ice Station Zebra in the Arctic) |
|
| S |
2003 |
Icehole |
Kiera Dellacroix |
Lt Cmdr Lovecraft pairs up with the only other woman on the
station while solving a classified mystery under the Antarctic ice. OP, hard to find |
|
| S |
2003 |
Drifting at the Bottom of the World |
Auden Bailey |
lesbian woman in Antarctica |
|
| S |
2003 |
Twisted Web |
Tom Grace |
espionage thriller about newly discovered life forms in Lake Vostok |
|
| S |
2003 |
A Line in the Sand |
Jeffrey Green | eco-thriller |
|
| S |
2003 |
The Orion Protocol |
Gary Tigerman |
alien pyramids found on Mars & Moon, alien body found in pre-historic forest in Antarctica. Political coverup, Antarctica thread mostly dropped |
|
| S |
2003 |
Terra Obscura: After Antarctica |
Alan Moore et al |
collected in a 2004 volume |
|
| N |
2003 |
Lodestar |
Peter Nichols |
Luxury yacht sets sail for the Arctic |
|
| S |
2003 |
Deep Ice |
Karl Kofoed |
wealthy businessman places nukes in Antarctica to melt
the ice, flood the coastlines, & make money in real estate on the new coasts |
|
| S |
2003 |
Big Ice
| Christopher Bonn Jonnes |
Psycho environmentalist (& Edgar Cayce fan) attacks polar
scientist who finds doomsday fault in W. Ant. Ice Sheet. Eco-terrorist trying
to accelerate Ant. ice melt in order to cleanse
Earth of humanity |
|
| S |
2003 |
$50,000 An Ounce |
Albin Roman |
theft of Martian meteorite takes PI to Antarctica
|
|
| S |
2003 |
Dead White Male |
Paul Wiebe |
|
|
| S |
2004 |
Ice Tomb |
Deborah Jackson |
Canadian geologist studies mysterious hot spot in Ant.
Lost City of Atlantis, killer asteroids, evil US military, the moon, etc.
And she 'defrosts' with a jerk who's worse than the ex who stole her
thesis... |
|
| S |
2004 |
Travel in the Mouth of the Wolf |
Paul Fattaruso |
dinosaur found under Antarctic ice recalls life when dinos ruled |
|
| S |
2004 |
Tempest Down |
Jeff Rovin |
Antarctic military thriller |
|
| S |
2004 |
Deep Current |
Benjamin Miller |
people-eating monsters on Antarctic iceberg |
|
| N |
2004 |
Love Speaks her Name |
Laura DeHart Young |
sequel to Forever and the Night |
 |
| S |
2004 |
Beneath the Ice |
Alton Gansky |
Christian publisher; Christian engineer sent to investigate
pyramid found under Lake Vostok. could
it be.... Satan? |
|
| S |
2004 |
Adventures of an Ice Princess |
Liz Maverick |
Calif. valley girls go to Antarctica with high heels & become
empowered. Bad... |
 |
| S |
2004 |
State of Fear |
Michael Crichton |
anti-global warming, Antarctic icebergs & terrorists, & an audience at the White House
based on the authors "expertise" |
|
| S |
2004 |
Sun at Midnight |
Rosie Thomas |
Geologist goes to Antarctica. Surprise, she's pregnant!
And the station commander - a grandson of a surviving member of RF Scott's
expedition - is demented! And she 'defrosts'. |
 |
| S |
2004 |
Antarctica on a Plate |
Alexa Thomson |
AUS |
|
| S |
2004 |
Hawkman & the Atom, Terror Beneath the Ice |
Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray |
in Antarctica, no. 32 Nov 04 |
 |
| S |
2004 |
The Sarcophagi of the Sixth Continent |
Yves Sente & Andre Juillard |
In French, English version pub. in 2011. `Adventures of Blake and Morimer', Part 2 in Antarctica |
 |
| S |
2004 |
The Ice Company XIII |
Georges-Jean Arnaud |
In French, first of several stories about a future ice-age Earth where people live in domed cities under ice sheets |
 |
| N |
2004 |
Arctic Chill |
Robert Ziegler |
murder in Fairbanks, Alaska |
|
| N |
2004 |
Icetopia |
Arthur Herzog |
something found in old military encapment under Greenland |
|
| S |
2004 |
Ice: A Novel of Initiation |
Bruce Donehower |
Egyptian style pyramid found in Antarctica, Atlantis |
|
| S |
2004 |
The Pangean Effect |
Ual Bradley |
discovery that Earth's axis will shift in 2025 |
|
| S |
2004 |
The Stone Sky |
J. B. Langley |
Antarctic scientists kidnapped and brought to under-ice caverns |
|
| S |
2004 |
Tantalus Zero |
Marshall Moore |
surgeon stationed at US military base in Antarctica finds very nasty people & a secret bioweapons program. A good one! |
|
| S |
2005 |
Cold Skin |
Albert Sanchez Pinol |
award winning novel trans. from Catalan; humanoid killer amphibians on Antarctic island. Weird. |
|
| S |
2005 |
Hive |
Tim Curran |
billed as a 'sequel' to Lovecraft's "At the Mountains of Madness" |
|
| N |
2005 |
The Trudeau Vector |
Juris Jurjevics |
Arctic biohazard thriller |
|
| S |
2005 |
X-Men: Golgotha |
Peter Milligan |
X-Men visit colony of mutants in Antarctica |
 |
| S |
2005 |
Mystery of the Antarctic-Adventures of Buck Danny |
F. and N. Bergese |
French-Belgian comic; Navy pilots, criminals and
Nazi gold in Antarctica |
|
| N |
2005 |
Polar Shift |
Clive Cussler and Paul Kemprecos |
Techno-thriller, bad guys plans to trigger a polar shift,
also lost city in Arctic Island. Hey Clive- they speak PORTUGUESE in Brazil |
|
| S |
2005 |
Raising Atlantis |
Thomas Greanias |
Archeologist, former nun, & several militaries explore a lost city
and ancient aliens in Antarctica. (non-polar) sequels. |
|
| N |
2005 |
Dangerous Ground |
Larry Bond |
undersea techno-thriller, nuclear subs, Russians, etc |
|
| N |
2005 |
AD 2516: After Global Warming |
Noel Hudson |
3 people are transported to the future after their
plane crashes under the arctic ice |
|
| S |
2005 |
Deception's Fury |
Jacqueline Randolph |
spy thriller with DEA agents, very brief Antarctica |
|
| S |
2005 |
The Biggest Morgue in the World |
Jon Jermey |
murder mystery at Australian Antarctic base |
|
| S |
2005 |
Moby & Ahab on a Plutonium Sea |
Scott E Douglas |
Mt Erebus explodes, releasing US-developed bioweapon,
affecting nearby submarine crew who go mad & plan to nuke Antarctica |
 |
| S |
2005 |
Prophecy Force Seven |
Marceline Miller |
Earth's govts allow refugee aliens to colonize Antarctica. |
|
| S |
2005 |
Angel of Death |
Thomas McCurley |
CIA agents chase vampire around the world, including Antarctica. |
|
| S |
2005 |
Portal |
Rob Swigart |
Originally published (1988) as an interactive novel on computer disk in 1986, astronaut returns to Earth after 100 years |
|
| S |
2005 |
Angel of Death |
T M Mccurley |
Disgraced CIA agent chases vampire around the world, including Antarctica |
|
| S |
2005 |
The Darwin Strand |
James Copa |
change in Earth's tilt leads to genetically changed humans |
|
| N |
2006 |
Raising the Past |
Jeremy Robinson |
10,000 year old body found in Arctic. Revised and expanded in 2011 |
|
| N |
2006 |
Whitewater Rendezvous |
Kim Baldwin |
girl meets girl on Alaskan wilderness trip |
|
| N |
2006 |
Cape Farewell |
Peter Tonkin |
murderer on submarine off the coast of Greenland |
 |
| S |
2006 |
G.I. Joe Special Missions: Antarctica |
Andrew Dabb |
Canada |
|
| S |
2006 |
Resolution Burning |
Peter Tonkin |
supertanker on fire in Antarctic Sea |
 |
| S |
2006 |
Echoes in the Blue |
C. George Muller |
Japan hunting whales in Antarctic |
|
| N |
2006 |
From Within |
Robert Billard |
Canadian Revolutionary Army in Nunavut |
|
| S |
2006 |
Antarctic Collapse |
Earl Earnest Guile |
polar ice caps collapsing, discovery of ancient alien computer |
|
| S |
2006 |
Project Galaxy |
H. J. Walter |
US military stages 'UFO' flights from Antarctica.
Shaggy dog tale, lots of excruciating detail but we never learn WHY |
|
| S |
2006 |
Fire and Ice |
Christopher Jones |
eco-terrorists, guided by aliens, steal nukes & blow up Antarctica |
|
| S |
2006 |
Empress Hunter 2010 |
John Burke |
Chinese sub tries to rescue American scientist from Ice Prison in Antarctica |
|
| S |
2006 |
Vostok Station: Point of Impact |
Kerry Plowright |
Russians and Chinese find oil reserves under Lake Vostok |
|
| S |
2006 |
Tropical Antarctica: A Prophecy? |
Robert Parlier |
melting ice caps flood the north, Americans just move wherever they want in the world to find high ground, lots of wars, & eventually everyone ends up in big towers in Antarctica. Bad.
|
|
| S |
2006 |
The Sands of Erebus |
Drew Gardner |
novella; navel-gazing college senior finds the women of
his dreams on a week-long trip to Antarctica |
|
| S |
2006 |
The Number of Things |
R. R. Beach |
man escapes his complicated life by dreaming about
leading a British Antarctic expedition |
|
| N |
2007 |
Robert Ludlum's The Arctic Event |
James Cobb |
Soviet bioweapon found in Arctic |
|
| N |
2007 |
Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name |
Vendela Vida |
Manhattan woman heads to Lapland in search of missing
Sami parent |
|
| S |
2007 |
In Cold Pursuit |
Sarah Andrews |
McMurdo geology grad student
investigates advisor's murder charge (& she 'defrosts').
Bad Astronomy & bad physics - a practicing geologist
should know
the definitions of Ant. Circle & deuterium! |
|
| S |
2007 |
The Citadel |
Robert Doherty |
CIA, Antarctica, one reviewer said it was a 'cut & paste'
of an earlier book by the author, Eternity Base (writing as Bob Mayer). |
|
| S |
2007 |
Antarktos Rising |
Jeremy Robinson |
apocalyptic global geological catastrophe, nations race to
claim Antarctica, but its already got monsters & dinosaurs. Funny bad reviews
on amazon: 'anti-science, biblical, creationist, racist'... |
|
| S |
2007 |
The Seventh Seal |
Jose Rodrigues dos Santos |
In Portuguese, trans. into several languages but not yet English.
In a future globally warmed earth: a murdered Antarctic scientist, a biblical
secret left as a clue, a coming apocalypse |
|
| N |
2007 |
Svalbard 1969 |
Bjorn Okern |
in Norweigian. US, British, Russian, and Norwegian oil companies race to claim Alaskan oil in 1969 |
|
| S |
2007 |
Terror Nova |
Malcolm Kitchen |
|
|
| N |
2007 |
Thaw |
Bryan Dunn |
ancient terror entombed in Arctic iceberg |
|
| S |
2007 |
Deadfreeze |
Anthony Giangregorio |
experimental serum injected into dead body creates zombies at Antarctic research station, who spread throughout the continent |
|
| S |
2007 |
The Nexus Colony |
G. F. Schreader |
alien UFO found buried in Antarctica |
|
| S |
2007 |
Zero Station |
Amanda Hamm |
novella, aliens crash into Antarctica |
|
| S |
2007 |
Jeezus! |
Theresa Mitchell |
aliens, who plan to steal the Antarctic ice cap, pretend
to be the second coming of jesus. 2 lesbians try to expose the truth |
|
| N |
2008 |
Arctic Drift |
Clive and Dirk Cussler |
US near war with Canada over natural gas, global warming.
Terror & Erebus are found as the ice melts... |
|
| S |
2008 |
The Final Warning |
James Patterson |
YA; Maximum Ride, a mutant teenager with wings who can fly, goes
to Antarctica with her flock to help scientists study global warming |
|
| S |
2008 |
Cold Plague |
Daniel Kalla |
fresh water from a Vostok-type Antarctic lake is bottled
and sold but creates a medical disaster |
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| S |
2008 |
Ice: A Love Story |
Louis Nowra |
towing iceberg from Antarctica to Sydney |
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S |
2008 |
Freezing Point |
Karen Dionne |
plans to bottle drinking water from the separated Larsen ice shelf, but problems with the water, the ecoterrorists, the giant killer rats on the ice shelf
& the geologist's surprise pregnancy... |
|
| S |
2008 |
The Charlemagne Pursuit |
Steve Berry |
Lost civilzation found in Antarctica by Nazis; Op.
Highjump, missing sub,
US political intrigue, crazy German descendents, etc.
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| S |
2008 |
Shangri-la |
Julio Murillo |
Climate scientists in Antarctica discover secret Nazi base
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| S |
2008 |
House of Wolves |
Matt Bronleewe |
NYC rare book dealer looks for 12c gospels, ancient brotherhood, conspiracies, Nazi secrets, Antarctica. Christian publisher. |
|
| S |
2008 |
Pink Carbide: Carbon Aria |
RE. S. Wynn |
conclusion to a Sci Fi trilogy, includes a visit to Antarctica |
|
| N/S |
2008 |
Polar Swap |
Arthur Herzog |
Swap of Earth's magnetic poles |
|
| S |
2008 |
Gone |
Bob Avis |
Guy brought to future & returned with antidote
to save humanity from a deadly viral-bacteria mix found
near Lake Vostok, deposited 3 million years ago when an alien spaceship crashed into Antarctica |
|
| S |
2008 |
The Invasion |
Delores Elaine Hill |
aliens hiding in an underwater base in Antarctica work to melt the polar ice caps & take over the Earth. Really needs an editor... |
|
| S |
2008 |
The Iceman |
John Stevenson |
AUS; aliens exploit Earth chaos from climate change to
take over, can Earth be saved by a man frozen under Antarctic ice for 100 years
after a plane crash, who lacks the alien implants common to all other humans? |
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| S |
2008 |
Nature's Fire & Water |
Charles Hawley |
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| N |
2008 |
Betrayal |
Norman Chance |
US govt. tries to cover up nuclear poisoning in Alaska |
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| S |
2008 |
Gas $1.00 |
Jim King |
US claims lake with enough 'oil for a millon years' in
Antarctica. No mention of the Antarctic Treaty, no objections to the
construction of trains, pipelines, & a resort at this Antarctic lake,
no thought of the global effects of burning all of this oil. Plus polar
bears in Antarctica, use of incorrect words, &
rambly godawful writing. Ugh. |
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| N/S |
2008, 2009 |
Climax, Parts I-IV |
Luc Brahy, E. Corbeyran, Braquelaire |
French; Set of 4 graphic novels, 2 in North, 2 in South.
Le desert blanc; Vostok; Les faiseurs d'Aurore; Gakona, Alaska. Reissued as box set in 2011 |
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| S |
2009 |
Polar Quest |
Alex Archer |
(Rogue Angel #16). Series by different authors about a
archeologist/tv host who owns a super sword. Here she goes to Antarctica to
investigate a strange artifact. Alien, or a fake? |
|
| S |
2009 |
Blood and Ice |
Robert Masello |
depressed journalist 'defrosts' with 19th c
vampire found underwater by Ant. base. Bad geography-
coastal Ant. isn't 'Pole' |
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| N |
2009 |
Terminal Freeze |
Lincoln Child |
large ancient animal found in Alaskan Arctic
wilderness |
|
| N |
2009 |
Deep Black: Arctic Gold |
Stephen Coonts & William Keith |
Russian subs under the icecap looking for oil |
|
| N |
2009 |
Cold Earth |
Sarah Moss |
Archeology students wind up stuckin isolated Greenland for the winter |
|
| S |
2009 |
The Sign |
Raymond Khoury |
TV reporter covering Antarctic ice breakup
films mysterious 'bright shimmering sphere of light', which later appears over Arctic. sign from god or a scam?
| |
| N |
2009 |
Breaking the Ice |
Kim Baldwin |
girl meets girl on Alaskan wilderness trip |
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| S |
2009 |
The Magicians |
Lev Grossman |
Brooklyn teenager suddenly finds himself in Magic
College; his semester abroad is in Antarctica |
|
| S |
2009 |
The Covenant of Genesis |
Andy McDermott |
British series about a pair of adventure archeologists
who find a lost city in Antarctica |
|
| S |
2009 |
Who Goes There? |
John W Campbell |
new edition of 1938 novella,
with new introduction & previously unpublished 1978 screen
treatment by William F Nolan (his version has women at the Antarctic station) |
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| S |
2009 |
Lovecraft Unbound |
E. Datlow ed |
`Twenty Stories
inspired by Lovecraft'; incl. `The Crevassei' by D Bailey & N Ballingrud, and
`Cold Water Survival' by H Phillips |
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| S |
2009 |
The Quiet War |
Paul McAuley |
Space opera, some references to a melted Antarctica |
|
| S |
2009 |
Coldblooded |
Jacob R Dring |
nasty warrior aliens at Byrd Sub-C Station |
|
| S |
2009 |
Polar Love |
K. L. Smith |
Science director meets married intern on polar science cruise. Will their love be ended by a boat crash, car crash, or plane crash? |
|
| S |
2009 |
The Treaty |
A. J. Conway |
AUS; Antarctica bombed to protect a secret.
Author is 'age 13' |
|
| S |
2009 |
A Strange Messenger |
Robert Bennick |
mysterious floating object found in Ant. Many
cliches (conspiracies, nazis, pole shifts, aliens, marriage to female grad student).
'in American to charm readers
across the Atlantic', but many
typos & reads like the English in a multi-lingual electronics manual. |
|
| S |
2009 |
Tsunami: Beast of Antarctica |
W. Dale Ogle |
Tsunami trashes cruise ship in Antarctica. truly
awful writing. |
|
| S |
2009 |
Freedom Refuge |
Gary Anello |
in Antarctica. amazon self-publishing, minimal description! |
|
| S |
2009 |
The Capstone Decision |
Isabelle Morton |
Great Pyramids, Atlantis, upcoming polar shift. Some action
takes place in Antarctica. |
|
| S |
2009 |
The Patent of Mann |
George Dixon |
UK; evil mining corp bombs fault line in CA
creating earthquake, which distracts from their plan to do
the same in Antarctica - so as to separate off the ice sheet to
better access the oil in the land |
|
| S |
2009 |
Apocalypse Rising |
Jim Sampson |
AUS; environmental scientists trapped in Antarctica as many
volcanoes erupt there & increase global warming |
|
| S |
2009 |
Death by Rx |
T A Olsinski |
chemical from new species found in a warming Antarctica
might let people live forever, (no action in Antarctica) |
|
| S |
2009 |
2049 |
James E. Davis |
something about terrorism; some action in McMurdo |
|
| S |
2009 |
South of the 60 Parallel |
Andrzej Gorecki |
AUS; Journalist investigates US discovery of a huge metallic
structure under Antarctica - guess what it is! And she defrosts!
Decent writing |
|
| S |
2009 |
In the Wake of Lancelot Ashe |
Anthony Bonner |
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| S |
2009 |
Weather's Wrath |
Ade Paul |
NZ; greedy capitalist sends CFC bombs into the stratosphere
over Antarctica to destroy the ozone layer & make billions selling a fix |
|
| S |
2009 |
Pipeline to Nowhere |
Klaus Hickman |
Arabic emirate hires German company to bring Antarctic
water to the Arabic peninsula |
|
| N |
2009 |
Ice-Shedding of Ages |
Kauko Loukas |
Greenland glacier bursts causing problems |
|
| S |
2009 |
The Evidence of Things Not Seen |
Terri Wood Jerkins and Jeremy R. Jerkins |
lost city of Babel in Antarctica |
|
| S |
2010 |
Polar Reaction |
Claire Thompson |
3 men stuck at an Antarctic station get physically (& explicitly) involved with each other. Gay polar porn! |
|
| N/S |
2010 |
Baby its Cold Outside |
Jen Greene & Merline Lovelace |
romance novellas taking place in Alaska and Antarctica.
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| N |
2010 |
Solar |
Ian McEwan |
Unpleasant Nobel-winning physicist gets involved with global
warming, including a trip to the Arctic |
|
| N |
2010 |
Aurorarama |
Jean-Christophe Valtat |
alternate history about a frozen Arctic city New Venice in
post Victorian times. Steampunk/Icepunk. |
|
| N |
2010 |
Dark Matter |
Michelle Paver |
Arctic ghost story |
|
| S |
2010 |
Hunt Beyond the Frozen Fire |
Gabriel Hunt |
Wealthy adventurer searches for scientist missing near the South Pole |
|
| S |
2010 |
Beneath the Dark Ice |
Greig Beck |
AUS; Plane crash in Antarctica; monsters in caves |
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| S |
2010 |
Yukikaze |
Chohei Kambayashi |
JAPAN; military Sci Fi. Aliens use passageway over Ross Ice Shelf to
invade Earth, leading to war. Originally short stories in SF magazine 1979-1983, compiled 1984, 5 part anime series in 2002 |
|
| S |
2010 |
El Cementerio de Icebergs |
S. Rossi & T. Polo |
In SPANISH; scientists caught in the middle of soldiers vs mercenaries grabbing Antarctic resources. No English translation. |
|
| S |
Apr. 2010 |
Fantastic Four #576 |
Jonathan Hickman |
mystery buried deep beneath Vostok station, Antarctica |
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| N |
2010 |
Vampire Delights on Polar Nights |
Jules Stephens |
Female agents sent to service 8 captured male
vampires locked up on Svalbard. They all 'defrost', quite
explicitly. Vampire polar porn! Incorrectly advertised as Antarctic |
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| S |
2010 |
The Spawning: Book 2 of the Hive Series |
Tim Curran |
sequel to the self-proclaimed 'sequel' to At The Mountains of Madness |
|
| S |
2010 |
The Silent Sea |
Clive Cussler with Jack Du Brul |
some Antarctica |
|
| S |
2010 |
The Floaters of the Barrens |
David Haden |
short story 'sequel' to 'At The Mountains of Madness', in
Ice Cores: Essays on Lovecraft's novella At the Mountains of Madness |
|
| S |
2010 |
Frozen in Time: Murder at the Bottom of the World |
Theodore J Cohen |
theft from Chilean bank leads to Antarctica, Book I |
|
| S |
2010 |
Unfinished Business: Pursuit of Antarctic Killer |
Theodore J Cohen |
Book II |
|
| S |
2010 |
End Game: Irrational Acts, Tragic Consequences |
Theodore J Cohen |
Book III |
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| S |
2010 |
Death in McMurdo |
Izzy Heller |
Geologist wins MacArthur award & takes his
whiny Jewish wife to McMurdo for a year. Much dramarama
ensues. What young Harvard scientist has time for
sports, dance, & Judaism conversion classes? |
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| S |
2010 |
Storm from The South |
Peter G Bailey |
international nuclear terrorists |
|
| N |
2010 |
Gelon |
Graham Jappe |
ancient civilization below Arctic ice, aliens, etc |
|
| S |
2010 |
Fracture Lines |
David Wandless |
US Vice Pres. secretly plans to nuke Ant., so
it melts, raising seas & wiping out the US' economic competitors, esp. India & China |
|
| S |
2010 |
The Antarctic Code |
Deo de Wit |
AUS; unusual virus found in Antarctic penguin colony, but most action is in Aus, Russia, and California. |
|
| S |
2010 |
The Tournament at the End of the Earth |
Andew Boswell |
in a future world after WWIII, battleground in Antarctica |
|
| S |
2010 |
Sun Dog Days, Lunar Corona Nights |
Max Gluteus |
fictionalized account of life with the British Antarctic Survey during the 1960s & 1970s |
|
| S |
2010 |
The Triumvirate |
Boris Shchiglik |
trans. from Russian; crimes in Lithuania trace back to
Hitler/Nazi
expeditions to Antarctica |
|
| N/S |
2010 |
Sixty Four Degrees |
Chesley Hines |
self-published with minimal description 'adventure
novel in sub-Arctic & Southern Ocean' |
|
| S |
2010 |
Tomorrow |
Scott Patrick Campbell |
300,000 year-old spacecraft buried beneath Antarctic ice |
|
| N |
2010 |
Critical Orbit |
Reg Puckey |
Asteroid collides with Earth and changes its tilt |
|
| S |
2011 |
Blood and Ice |
Lois Gresh |
ethereal aliens awaken in Antarctica & discover they like blood
after nipping on the first Scott/Shackleton expedition.
100 years later they return to the IceCube neutrino telescope at South Pole. |
|
| N |
2011 |
The Explorer's Code |
Kitty Pilgram |
great great granddaughter of famous Victorian polar explorer
finds his journal and land deed to part of Svalbard, Norway. Around the world
thriller |
|
| N |
2011 |
Reluctant Dead |
John Moss |
Murder in the arctic |
|
| N |
2011 |
A Summer of Drowning |
John Burnside |
Thriller set on island near Tromso |
|
| N |
2011 |
Snow Angels |
James Thompson |
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| S |
2011 |
Dry Ice |
Bill Evans & Marianna Jameson |
Weather monitoring station in Antarctica is programmed to control the weather and make it a weapon. And no one can shut it down... Evans is an Eyewitness News meteorologist in NYC |
|
| S |
2011 |
The Unlikely Assoc. of Meg & Harry |
Jennifer Armstrong |
woman and religious man travel around the world, including
Antarctica |
|
| S |
2011 |
Deception Island |
J. D. Boss |
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|
| S |
2011 |
The Last Hunter: Descent |
Jeremy Robinson |
`Book 1 of the Antarktos Saga' |
|
| S |
2011 |
The Last Hunter: Pursuit |
Jeremy Robinson |
`Book 2 of the Antarktos Saga' |
|
| S |
2011 |
The Last Hunter: Ascent |
Jeremy Robinson |
`Book 3 of the Antarktos Saga' |
|
| S |
2011 |
Fusion |
Colin Hazlehurst |
Northern hemisphere wiped out by natural disaster and war, civilization in Antarctica only |
|
| S |
2011 |
Return to Void |
Simon Dyda |
in English and Welsh; past present and future, around the world and Mars, including Antarctica |
|
| S |
2011 |
Overlords of Mars: Inception |
Giuseppe Filotto |
Admiral Byrd's UFOs |
|
| S |
2011 |
Desolate |
Robert Brumm Jr |
Residents of prison camp on Antarctic Island find lethal pathogen |
|
| S |
2011 |
Fade to Black |
Josh Pryor |
Bioweapons and genetic secrets at Antarctic base |
|
| S |
2011 |
The Lance |
Alex Lukeman |
Ancient powerful weapon discovered in Antarctica. |
|
| N |
2011 |
Arctic Fire |
Paul Byers |
Entrepeneur brings man-made icebergs from the Arctic to New York for
drinking water |
|
| N |
2011 |
Tipping Point |
Simon Rosser |
Someone is killing Arctic climatologists |
|
| N |
2011 |
65 Below |
Basil Sands |
retired marine finds secret in Alaskan arctic |
|
| N |
2011 |
Slaughter Deck |
K K Gatien & Sreecanda |
First lady and whaling pirate try to move stranded whales from Arctic to Antarctic waters |
|
| N,S |
2012 |
The Massive |
Brian Wood |
Dark Horse series about post-apocalyptic Earth. #2 and 3 in Arctic, #5 in Antarctica. #1-6 pub as The Massive Vol 1: Black Pacific in 2013 |
|
| N |
2012 |
Ice Force |
Matt Lynnd |
Death Force #4; Mercenaries battle for oil in the Arctic |
|
| N |
2012 |
Scarecrow Returns |
Matthew Reilly |
Terrorists find a Soviet cold-war doomsday device at a forgotten Arctic base (AKA Scarecrow and the Army of Thieves) |
|
| S |
2012 |
SecondWorld |
Jeremy Robinson |
"Nazis, UFOs, Antarctica" |
|
| S |
2012 |
The Last Hunter: Onslaught |
Jeremy Robinson |
`Book 5 of the Antarktos Saga' |
|
| N |
2012 |
Polar City Red |
Jim Laughter |
Alaska in 2075, following global warming |
|
| S |
2012 |
The Last Hunter: Lament |
Jeremy Robinson |
`Book 4 of the Antarktos Saga' |
|
| S |
2012 |
Ice Station Zombie |
J. E. Gurley |
Zombies loose in Antarctica |
|
| S |
2012 |
Iceburgh |
Paul & Carole Miller |
bringing iceberg from Antarctica to LA for fresh water |
|
| S |
2012 |
Prison at the End of the World |
Douglas Todt |
Undercover vice-cop ends up in Antarctic prison |
|
| N |
2012 |
Greenland: An Arctic Adventure |
James Fenton |
Greenland ski tourists and climate scientists |
|
| S |
2012 |
The Hunt for Danger |
Peter G. Bailey |
Politics and adventure; some in Antarctica |
|
| S |
2012 |
The Prophecy Gene |
Stuart Schooler |
Telepathic consciousness discovered; partly takes place in Antarctica |
|
| N |
2012 |
Evolution |
Russ Katz |
aliens, DNA manipulation, Arctic |
|
| S |
2012 |
Midnight Sun |
MJ Frederick |
Pirates take over cruise ship enroute to Antarctic |
|
| S |
2012 |
The Breeders |
Matthew Beier |
In an overpopulated world ruled by gay people, pregnant women are banished to Antarctica |
|
| N |
2012 |
Arctic Fire |
Stephen Frey |
Secret American intelligence group in the Arctic |
|
| N |
2012 |
Arctic Wargame |
Ethan Jones |
Canadian intelligence agent finds foreign weapons in the Arctic |
|
| S |
2012 |
South Pole Vendetta |
C. D. Myers |
North Korea invades Palmer station to steal oil from the South Pole |
|
| S |
2012 |
Synapse |
Ron Prasad |
geneticist finds secret at Antarctic island |
|
| N |
2012 |
Song of the Unsung |
Gary Eddings |
North Slope residents try to survive after an asteroid collision destroys North America |
|
| S |
2012 |
Blood on the Snow |
Pamela Lamb |
Woman attacked by mysterious assailant in Antarctica |
|
| S |
2012 |
Mulligan |
Tommie Lee |
|
|
| S |
2012 |
Frozen Secrets |
Bryan Cunningham |
old Nazi base in Antarctica |
|
| S |
2012 |
Project Enterprise |
H. J. Walter |
Sequel to Project Galaxy. Antarctic Development Squadron Six tries to rescue Space Shuttle trapped in orbit |
|
| S |
2012 |
Icarus Rising |
Dominic Carney |
Climate scientist seeks truth about disappearance of father in Antarctica |
|
| S |
2013 |
Nemo: Heart of Ice |
Alan Moore |
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen; Antarctic expedition in 1925 |
|
| S |
2013 |
The Dying of the Light: Interval |
Jason Kristopher |
Second volume of a trilogy about zombies taking over Earth; military tried to
rescue scientists stranded in Antarctica |
|
| S |
2013 |
Hollow Earth |
Dave and Sharon Oester |
Cloned Nazis under volcano in Antarctica plan to nuke Earth. Also lost alien city |
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