Now in paperback, this third book in the Rewilding Report cli-fi
series from a nationally recognized anthropologist explores a frozen
future where archaic species struggle to survive an apocalyptic ice
age.
It's been 925 summers since the Jemen introduced zyme, a bioluminescent
algae, into the world's ocean and unwittingly triggered an ice age that
has consumed most of the planet. All but a handful of Jemen flew to the
stars, but before they left, they recreated several extinct species that
had thrived in the last ice age. After almost a thousand summers, the
archaic hominins that struggle along the edges of massive glaciers are
dwindling. All they have to save them is a dying quantum computer called
Quancee and her student, a Denisovan man named Lynx.
When the last Jemen, Vice Admiral Jorgenson, tells Lynx he's going to
dismantle Quancee and use her parts to create a new computer, Lynx is
stunned. But while Lynx battles to save Quancee, the quantum computer
has other priorities. Before she dies, she has to save a special boy who
cannot save himself.
Meanwhile, in the lodges of the Sealion People, a sick boy on the verge
of manhood hears voices, including an old woman who sings to him. When
Jawbone goes on his first quest to find a spirit helper, that same old
woman finds him, and his life will never be the same.
An insightful story of climate change with a basis in anthropological
research, The Ice Orphan takes readers on a journey to a world at once
strange and familiar.
