Genre Polar Fiction (mostly Monsters, Aliens, Nazis,
Russians, terrorists - and Comics) |
| Year | Title | Author | Comment | Theme |
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| 1818 |
Frankenstein |
Mary Shelley |
 the original! |
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| 1936 |
At the Mountains of Madness |
H. P. Lovecraft |
lost city in Antarctica |
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| 1938 |
Who Goes There |
John Campbell |
story for "The Thing" movies |
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| 1941-47 |
Nelvana of the Northern Lights |
Adrian Dingle |
Canada's first comic book superhero, and the world's first
female superhero. Based on Inuit legends, Nelvana was the daughter of the king
of the northern lights who wore a miniskirt while battling Nazis.
She lived among the Eskimos, could turn into dry ice,
travelled at the speed of light,
and could become invisible by blending in with the Aurora Borealis |
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| 1953 |
The Space Merchants |
F. Pohl, C. Kornbluth |
partly in Antarctica |
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| 1953 |
At the South Pole |
Steve Muffatti |
Casper the Friendly Ghost wants friends at the South Pole |
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| 1954 |
Pawn in Jeopardy |
Adam Hall (Elleston Trevor) |
Members of a 1952 Antarctic expedition are murdered one by one
|
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| 1956 |
Penguin for Your Thoughts |
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Casper brings baby penguin to the South Pole |
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| 1957 |
The Superbrain of Jimmy Olsen |
Superman Comic |
Superman prevents the Earth from blowing apart by
adding mass to the south pole |
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| 1967 |
Monday at McMurdo |
David Burke |
US Congressman in plane crash in Antarctica |
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| 1970 |
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. |
|
| 1970 |
Ice Quake |
Crawford Killian |
|
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| 1973 |
The Ice People |
Rene Barjavel |
trans. from French; 100,000 yr old Earth civilization at South Pole |
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| 1973 |
Target 5 |
Colin Forbes |
Soviet defector on icepack near Greenland |
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| 1974 |
Rage Under the Arctic |
Basil Jackson |
Submarine oil tanker causes massive spill in the arctic |
 |
| 1976 |
Night Without End |
Alistair MacLean |
airliner crashes on the Greenland Icecap near a scientific station |
|
| 1976 |
The HAB Theory |
Allan Eckert |
End of the world apocalyptic (Christian?) sci-fi |
|
| 1979 |
White for Danger |
David Stevens |
search for lost city in Antarctica |
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| 1980 |
Dr Who and the Seeds of Doom |
Phillip Hinchcliffe |
alien pods uncovered in Antarctica |
|
| 1982 |
Operation: McMurdo Sound |
Nick Carter |
biological nerve gas kills people at South Pole |
 |
| 1983 |
Whitefire |
Glover Wright |
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| 1984 |
Airship Nine |
Thomas Block |
Antarctic residents only survivors of nuclear war |
 |
| 1984 |
Batman: Antarctic Nightmare |
Doug Moench |
Batman chases the Penguin to Antarctica |
|
| 1985 |
Icebreaker |
John Gardner |
James Bond on Ice,chasing neo-Nazis in the Arctic |
 |
| 1986 |
Red Ice |
N. Barker, A.Masters |
Russian terrorists in Antarctic waters |
|
| 1986 |
Cold Sea Rising |
Richard Moran |
Ross Ice Shelf splits off drifts north, disaster novel |
|
| 1988 |
The Icemen: A Novel of Antarctica |
M. E. Morris |
Nazis, Arab terrorists, biological warfare |
|
| 1988 |
Superman: The Perfidious Perils of the Pusillanimous Prankster |
Chuck Pfarrer |
Supergirl found in Antarctica |
|
| 1988 |
Murder in a Cold Climate |
Scott Young |
Inuk Canadian Mountie investigates murder of spokesman for
Native rights, first in a SERIES of 2 |
|
| 1989 |
Under the Ice |
Richard Henrick |
cold war techno in Arctic |
|
| 1989 |
The Last Ship |
William Brinkley |
after global nuclear war, the last sub heads to Antarctica |
|
| 1989 |
Days of Starlight |
Craig Harrison |
at an Antarctic base |
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| 1989 |
False Cross |
Stephen Forbes |
Antarctic thriller |
|
| 1990 |
Northern Edge |
Barbara Quick |
young woman impulsively joins ecological research group in
Alaska |
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| 1990 |
The Hollow Earth: The Narrative of Mason Algiers Reynolds of Virginia |
Rudy Rucker |
tribute to 19th c hollow Earth tales of Poe, Verne, etc |
|
| 1990 |
The Child Garden |
Geoff Ryman |
with genetically advanced human (and lesbian) polar bears |
 |
| 1991 |
Precipice |
Bob Langley |
crashed Soviet weapons satellite activated under Antarctic ice |
|
| 1991 |
The Ice |
Louis Charbonneau |
US conglomerate vs Antarctic scientists over oil spill |
|
| 1991 |
Dream Maker |
W.A. Harbinson |
invisible alien intelligence in hole in Ozone layer |
|
| 1991 |
Murder on the Iditarod Trail |
Sue Henry |
first in a continuing SERIES of Alaska mysteries |
|
| 1991 |
Raise the Red Dawn |
Bart Davis |
techno-thriller, Russian sub frozen in arctic ice cap |
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| 1991 |
Hatching Stones |
Anna Wilson |
in a future world with reproduction by cloning, the men
kept Britain and exiled the women to an Antarctic island. |
|
| 1991 |
Thing From Another World |
Chuck Pfarrer |
Dark Horse Comics, 2 parts |
|
| 1992 |
Thing From Another World: Climate of Fear |
Chuck Pfarrer |
Dark Horse Comics, 4 parts |
|
| 1992 |
Isvik |
Hammond Innes |
Ghost ship in Antarctic Ice? |
|
| 1992 |
Voyage of the Devilfish |
Michael DiMercurio |
techno-thriller, Russian sub beneath arctic |
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| 1992 |
A Cold Day for Murder |
Dana Stabenow |
First of MANY in continuing
SERIES about female detective in Alaska |
|
| 1993 |
Smilla's Sense of Snow |
Peter Hoeg |
Intl. bestseller by Danish author, meteorites in Arctic |
|
| 1993 |
Thunder of Erebus |
Payne Harrison |
Antarctic cold war techno-thriller |
|
| 1993 |
Freeze Frame |
David Smith | Australian, eco-terrorism |
|
| 1994 |
Ice Wolf | Richard Henrick |
old Nazis looks for buried treasure in Antarctic cave |
|
| 1994 |
Target Antarctica |
Hammond Innes |
Hercules airplane stuck on iceberg |
|
| 1994 |
White Night |
William Lovejoy |
|
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| 1995 |
Icebound |
Dean Koontz |
Arctic experiment |
|
| 1995 |
The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica |
John Calvin Batchelor |
|
|
| 1995 |
Red Ice |
R. Karl Largent |
Russians, weapons, Arctic |
|
| 1995 |
Towing Jehovah |
James Morrow |
SciFi; the Vatican hires an unemployed tanker driver to tow
Gods body to a tomb in an Arctic cave |
|
| 1995 |
The Horrorist: Antarctica |
Jamie Delano and David Lloyd |
DC Comics, Part I Dec 1995 Part II Jan 1996 |
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| 1995 |
Woman Who Married a Bear |
John Straley |
First in a SERIES of mysteries about a PI in Sitka, Alaska |
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| 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 |
|
| 1996 |
Purgatory Road |
Rob Reiss |
Antarctic environmental thriller |
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| 1996 |
Magazine Beach |
Lewis Gannett |
apocalyptic SF; Antarctic scientist and psychiatrist wife
become eco-terrorists and detonate nukes under Antarctica, melt ice, flood planet |
|
| 1996 |
Map of Power |
Tess Williams |
futurist feminist fantasy fiction from Australian author, Antarctica |
|
| 1997 |
Area 51 (book 1) |
Robert Doherty |
Nine alien spacecraft discovered in Antarctica |
|
| 1997 |
Sacrament |
Clive Barker |
gay nature photographer mauled by polar bear |
|
| 1997 |
Field of Thunder |
Rose Flem-Ath |
thriller includes Antarctic island |
|
| 1997 |
Arctic Fire (Carrier no. 9) |
Keith Douglass |
cold war thriller, US vs Russia on Aleutian Islands |
|
| 1997 |
Phantom: Mission to Antarctica |
Frew Publications |
Australian |
|
| 1997 |
Choosers of the Slain |
James Cobb |
Argentina invades Antarctica |
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| 1997 |
Carnivore |
Leigh Clark |
Tyrannosaurus Rex is revived in Antarctica |
 |
| 1997 |
Whiteout |
Sage Walker |
Antarctica only clean place in eco-ravaged Earth |
|
| 1997 |
Shiver |
Nikki Gemmell |
Australian journalist travels by ship to Antarctica; finds love |
 |
| 1997 |
Love on the Line |
Laura DeHart Young |
first in SERIES of 3 about a female park ranger in Barrow Alaska |
|
| 1998 |
Ice Reich |
William Dietrich |
WWII-era adventure; Nazis, Antarctica, bio-weapons |
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| 1998 |
Icefire |
Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens |
Chinese melt Antarctica and set off a tidal wave |
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| 1998 |
Deadly Exposure |
Leonard Goldberg |
giant glittering northern iceberg releasing a deadly 65-million-year-old toxin |
|
| 1998 |
Antarctica |
Kim S. Robinson |
ecopolitics and adventure |
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| 1999 |
Atlantis Found |
Clive Cussler |
Dirk Pitt Adventures, old artefacts found in Antarctica |
|
| 1999 |
Arctic Legacy |
Loretta Jackson and Vickie Britton |
mystery on old sea freighter in Alaskan arctic |
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| 1999 |
Hunter |
James Byron Huggins |
govt secret experiments lead to ape-like beast in Alaska |
|
| 1999 |
Powerdown |
Peter Tonkin |
Antarctic supply ship finds murdered astronaut in Antarctica |
|
| 1999 |
Ice Station |
Matthew Reilly |
French vs Americans over alien spaceship buried in Antarctica |
|
| 1999 |
Subterranean |
James Rollins |
a telepathic race of humanlike marsupials beneath Mt Erebus |
|
| 1999 |
The Ice Breaker Incident |
Rayford Hammond |
murder in Antarctica |
|
| 1999 |
The Business |
Iain Banks |
a massive organization that predates the Catholic Church and briefly owned
the Roman Empire now has a permanent base in Antarctica |
|
| 1999 |
White Ice, Black Ice |
Stan Jones |
Inupiat state trooper in Alaska solves mysteries; first of a SERIES of 3 |
|
| 1999 |
Season of Death |
Christopher Lane |
An Inupiat Eskimo Mystery; first of a SERIES of 4 |
|
| 1999 |
Whiteout |
Greg Rucka |
4 part graphic novel, female US Marshall in Antarctica; FILM version due out in 2009 |
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| 1999 |
Whiteout: Melt |
Greg Rucka |
sequel to Whiteout |
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| 1999 |
Surfing Antarctica |
Lianie Shavian |
in Australia, making a film about eco-sabotage, minimal
about Antarctica |
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| 2000 |
White-out |
James V. Marshall |
WWII era survival adventure thriller in Antarctica |
|
| 2000 |
The Final Act | John Watson |
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| 2000 |
Revelation | Bill Napier |
atomic bombs in Arctic |
|
| 2001 |
Searchers |
Scott Browning |
10,000 yr old man found in Antarctic ice |
 |
| 2001 |
Caribou Crossing |
Kim Heacox |
big oil environmental thriller at Arctic National Wildlife
Refuge |
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| 2001 |
Pandora's Curse |
Jack Du Brul | Nazi artifact, meteorites in the Arctic |
|
| 2001 |
No One Thinks of Greenland |
John Griesemer | in 1959, US Korean War casualties are
hidden away in a Greenland military base |
|
| 2001 |
Earth of Fire, Sky of Ice: An Epic Fantasy Adventure |
Robert Hotchkiss |
lost civilization found in Antarctica |
|
| 2001 |
Dark Winter |
William Dietrich |
Martian meteorites and murder at South Pole winter |
|
| 2001 |
Forever and the Night |
Laura DeHart Young |
female park ranger meets female Inuit in Barrow, Alaska |
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| 2001 |
Adversary: Some Things are Better Left Undiscovered |
Richard Schiver |
alien knife found in Antarctica infects human |
|
| 2001 |
Earth of Fire, Sky of Ice: An Epic Fantasy Adventure |
Robert Hotchkiss |
Antarctic geologist discovers civilization which existed below miles of ice and snow |
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| 2001 |
Frankenstein: The Legacy |
Christopher Schildt |
3 scientists travel to North Pole and find the notes of Frankenstein's monster |
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| 2002 |
The Breath of Seals |
Lucy Jane Bledsoe |
short story, online here |
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| 2002 |
Deception Point |
Dan Brown |
possibly alien vessel at North Pole |
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| 2002 |
2182 KHz |
David Masiel |
life on Arctic sea tugboats |
|
| 2002 |
Decipher |
Stel Pavlou |
techno-thriller with everything but the kitchen sink ends in Antarctica |
|
| 2002 |
Meltdown |
James Powlik |
radioactive waste in Arctic ocean, eco-thriller |
|
| 2002 |
None Shall Forget |
Herbert Pollack |
nuclear power plant in Antarctica |
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| 2002 |
Arctic Blast (The Executioner #288) |
Don Pendleton | Soviet extremists with missiles in Antarctica |
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| 2002 |
Ice Age |
Brian Freemantle |
prehistoric killer virus spreads from Antarctica |
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| 2003 |
Zero Hour |
Benjamin Miller |
Antarctic environmental techno-thriller |
|
| 2003 |
Big Ice
| Christopher Bonn Jonnes |
Polar ice researcher finds doomsday fault in West Antarctic Ice Sheet |
|
| 2003 |
Black Ice |
Matt Dickinson |
Antarctic thriller, psycho burns down base |
|
| 2003 |
Ice Hunt |
James Rollins |
Arctic thriller; Russians, subs etc |
|
| 2003 |
Typhoon |
Robin White |
Arctic thriller, Russian sub under Arctic ice cap |
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| 2003 |
Underworld |
Mike Farren |
vampires, Nazis, AND aliens at Antarctic base |
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| 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 |
|
| 2003 |
Drifting at the Bottom of the World |
Auden Bailey |
lesbian woman in Antarctica |
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| 2003 |
Twisted Web |
Tom Grace |
something alive in under-ice lake in Antarctica |
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| 2003 |
A Line in the Sand |
Jeffrey Green | eco-thriller |
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| 2003 |
$50,000 An Ounce |
Albin Roman |
theft of Martian meteorite takes PI to Antarctica |
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| 2003 |
The Orion Protocol |
Gary Tigerman |
ET remains on Mars, astronauts train in Antarctica |
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| 2003 |
Terra Obscura: After Antarctica |
Alan Moore et al |
collected in a 2004 volume |
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| 2004 |
Ice Tomb |
Deborah Jackson |
Canadian geologist studies mysterious hot spot in Antarctica.
Lost City of Atlantis, killer asteroids, bad American military, the moon, etc.
And she `defrosts' with a jerk even worse than the ex who stole her
thesis, who of of course she forgives... |
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| 2004 |
Travel in the Mouth of the Wolf |
Paul Fattaruso |
dinosaur found under Antarctic ice |
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| 2004 |
Tempest Down |
Jeff Rovin |
Antarctic military thriller |
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| 2004 |
Deep Current |
Benjamin Miller |
people-eating monsters on Antarctic iceberg |
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| 2004 |
Love Speaks her Name |
Laura DeHart Young |
sequel to Forever and the Night |
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| 2004 |
Tantulus Zero |
Marshall Moore |
bioweapons in Antarctica |
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| 2004 |
Beneath the Ice |
Alton Gansky |
something lurking beneath Antarctica; Christian thriller |
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| 2004 |
The Stone Sky |
J. B. Langley |
`Spelunking In The Mountains And Minds Of Antarctica A Novel' |
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| 2004 |
Adventures of an Ice Princess |
Liz Maverick |
California girls go to South Pole |
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| 2004 |
State of Fear |
Michael Crichton |
anti-global warming, Antarctic icebergs and terrorists, and an audience at the White House
based on the authors "expertise" |
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| 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'. |
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| 2004 |
Antarctica on a Plate |
Alexa Thomson |
Australian |
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| 2004 |
Hawkman and the Atom, in Terror Beneath the Ice |
Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray |
in Antarctica, no. 32 Nov 04 |
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| 2005 |
Cold Skin |
Albert Sanchez Pinol |
award winning novel trans. from Catalan; humanoid killer amphibians on Antarctic island. Weird. |
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| 2005 |
Hive |
Tim Curran |
billed as a sequel to Lovecraft's "At the Mountains of Madness" |
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| 2005 |
The Trudeau Vector |
Juris Jurjevics |
Arctic biohazard thriller |
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| 2005 |
Deception's Fury |
Jacqueline Randolph |
spy thriller with DEA agents ends in Antarctica |
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| 2005 |
Moby and Ahab on a Plutonium Sea: The Novel Which Ended the Cold War |
Scott E Douglas |
Antarctica melting |
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| 2005 |
X-Men: Golgotha |
Peter Milligan |
X-Men visit colony of mutants in Antarctica |
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| 2005 |
Polar Shift |
Clive Cussler and Paul Kemprecos |
anti-globalization group plans to trigger a polar shift |
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| 2005 |
Dangerous Ground |
Larry Bond |
undersea techno-thriller, nuclear subs, Russians, etc |
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| 2006 |
Raising Atlantis |
Thomas Greanias |
search for Atlantis in Antarctica |
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| 2006 |
Whitewater Rendezvous |
Kim Baldwin |
girl meets girl on Alaskan wilderness trip |
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| 2006 |
Antarctic Collapse |
Earl Earnest Guile |
polar ice caps collapsing, discover alien computer |
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| 2006 |
Project Galaxy |
H. J. Walter |
govt. coverup of secret UFO base in Antarctica |
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| 2006 |
Fire and Ice |
Christopher Jones |
missing nukes in Antarctica, eco-terrorists |
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| 2006 |
Raising the Past |
Jeremy Robinson |
10,000 year old body found in Arctic |
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| 2006 |
Empress Hunter 2010 |
John Burke |
Chinese sub tries to rescue American scientist from Ice Prison in Antarctica |
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| 2006 |
Vostok Station: Point of Impact |
Kerry Plowright |
Russians and Chinese find oil reserves under Lake Vostok |
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| 2006 |
G.I. Joe Special Missions: Antarctica |
Andrew Dabb |
Canada |
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| 2006 |
Resolution Burning |
Peter Tonkin |
supertanker on fire in Antarctic Sea |
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| 2006 |
Echoes in the Blue |
C. George Muller |
Japan hunting whales in Antarctic |
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| 2007 |
Robert Ludlum's The Arctic Event |
James Cobb |
Soviet bioweapon found in Arctic |
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| 2007 |
Deadfreeze |
Anthony Giangregorio |
experimental serum creates zombies at Antarctica research station |
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| 2007 |
The Nexus Colony |
G. F. Schreader |
ancient alien colony buried deep in Antarctica |
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| 2007 |
Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name |
Vendela Vida |
Manhattan woman heads to Lapland in search of missing
Sami parent |
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| 2007 |
In Cold Pursuit |
Sarah Andrews |
geology grad student at McMurdo
investigates murder for which her advisor was charged (and yes she `defrosts').
Bad Astronomy on p12, bad physics too- c'mon a practicing geologist author
should know
the definitions of `Antarctic Circle' and deuterium. |
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| 2007 |
Antarktos Rising: A Novel |
Jeremy Robinson |
Christian, after a global geological catastrophe, nations race to
claim Antarctica, but its already got monsters... |
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| 2008 |
Whiteout: Thaw |
Greg Rucka |
forthcoming |
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| 2008 |
Cold Plague |
Daneil Kalla |
fresh water from a vostok-type Antarctic lake is bottled
and sold and links to a medical disaster |
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