The Ice Lion (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780756415846)

This cli-fi novel from a notable archaeologist and anthropologist explores a frozen future where archaic species struggle to survive an apocalyptic Ice Age

One thousand years in the future, the zyme, a thick blanket of luminous green slime, covers the oceans. Glaciers three-miles-high rise over the continents. The old stories say that when the Jemen, godlike beings from the past, realized their efforts to halt global warming had gone terribly wrong, they made a desperate gamble to save life on earth and recreated species that had survived the worst of the earth's Ice Ages.

Sixteen-summers-old Lynx and his best friend Quiller are members of the Sealion People--archaic humans known as Denisovans. They live in a world growing colder, a world filled with monstrous predators that hunt them for food. When they flee to a new land, they meet a strange old man who impossibly seems to be the last of the Jemen. He tells Lynx the only way he can save his world is by sacrificing himself to the last true god, a quantum computer named Quancee.

Author: Kathleen O'Neal Gear
ISBN-10: 0756415845
ISBN-13: 9780756415846
Publisher: Daw Books
Language: English
Published: 06/15/2021
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.35h x 5.83w x 1.34d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/12/2021
Booklist 05/15/2021 pg. 28
Kirkus Reviews 06/01/2021

About the Author
Kathleen O'Neal Gear is a New York Times-bestselling author and nationally award-winning archaeologist who has been honored by the U.S. Department of the Interior and the United States Congress. She is the author or co-author of 50 books and over 200 non-fiction articles. Her books have been translated into 29 languages. She lives in northern Wyoming with W. Michael Gear and a wily Shetland Sheep dog named Jake.