WriterDan edited the description of Arctic Rising Wednesday, October 19, 2011.
“Tobias BuckellGlobal warming has transformed the Earth, and it's about to get even hotter. The Arctic Ice Cap has all but melted, and the international community is stretchingracing desperately to claim the horizonsmassive amounts of science fiction and giving readersoil beneath the newly accessible ocean.
Enter the Gaia Corporation. Its two founders have come up with a hellplan to roll back global warming. Thousands of a lot of swashbuckling funtiny mirrors floating in the bargain.” —John Scalzi, bestselling authorair can create a giant sunshade, capable of Old Man's War “Buckell delivers double helpings of actionredirecting heat and violencecooling the earth's surface. They plan to terraform Earth to save it from itself—but in doing so, they have created a plot-driven story worthysuperweapon the likes of a Hollywood blockbuster.” — Publishers Weekly on Sly Mongoose “Buckell’s world-building, full of strong Aztec and Caribbean elements,which the world has never seen.
Anika Duncan is spectacular;an airship pilot for the story, finely tuned and engrossing.” — Booklistunderfunded United Nations Polar Guard. She’s intent on Sly Mongoose “Zombies. Interplanetary battles. Alien races. A herocapturing a smuggled nuclear weapon that can destroy a cityhas made it into the Polar Circle and bringing the smugglers to justice.
Anika finds herself caught up in a single bounce. What’s not to love? Light enough forplot by a beach read, smart enough for bedside, this novel cancabal of military agencies and corporations who want Gaia Corporation stopped. But when Gaia Corp loses control of their superweapon, it will be enjoyed on multiple levels.” — RT Book Reviews on Sly Mongoose “Buckell represents an important force behindAnika who has to decide the genre’s change. Buckell’s work deals with complex racial issues in a way worthyfuture of the self-proclaimed ‘literature of ideas’: head-on, with no visible flinching, while still managingworld. The nuclear weapon she has risked her life to give its readers a rollicking good time.” — The Seattle Time sfind is the only thing that can stop the floating sunshade after it falls into the wrong hands.
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