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A zany wildly gripping dark futuristic fantasy Vogue Most Anticipated Books of the Year Fascinatinga propulsive ridethrough a wellbuilt world The Christian Science Monitor

From the brilliant bestselling author of Child 44 and creator of the FX series Class of 09 comes a cinematic The Washington Post captivatingand brilliantly conceived postapocalyptic story Booklist starred review about an Antarctic colony of global apocalypse survivors seeking to reinvent civilization under the most extreme conditions imaginable

The world has fallen Without warning a mysterious and omnipotent force has claimed the planet for their own There are no negotiations no demands no reasons given for their actions All they have is a message humanity has thirty days to reach the one place on Earth where they will be allowed to existAntarctica

Cold People follows the perilous journeys of a handful of those who endure the frantic exodus to the most extreme environment on the planet But their goal is not merely to survive the present Because as they cling to life on the ice the remnants of their past swept away they must also confront the urgent challenge can they change and evolve rapidly enough to ensure humanitys future Can they build a new society in the subzero cold

Original and imaginative as profoundly intimate as it is grand in scope Cold People is a spellbindingspeculative masterpiece Library Journal starred review thats chilling in so many ways Los Angeles Times