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Humanity is living it’s last generation, unless a team of body snatching Russian scientists can travel to the past and save the future.
— Meg
So, I want to lead in with the fact that while I was reading this at my favorite cafe this morning not one, but two people approached me to ask what I was reading because they were really drawn to the cover, so well done Jamie Stafford-Hill. As far as the insides go, I stayed up way past my bedtime reading it. I loved that it's science fiction without being too hard, so casual readers of the genre like myself can really bask in an immersive story without feeling like they're not smart enough to be reading it. Also, I love that Valentina isn't a lithe 20 something who never could have acquired the skills she'd need to complete her mission. It was so refreshing.
It's been a long time since I read something and as soon as I finished it was ready to start writing a staff pick talker for it. Well done to all involved, this book really is a perfectly complete package.
— From Meg's Staff PicksA 2019 Locus Award finalist
A USA Today Bestseller
Fix the past. Save the present. Stop the future. Master of science fiction Alastair Reynolds unfolds a time-traveling climate fiction adventure in Permafrost.
2080: at a remote site on the edge of the Arctic Circle, a group of scientists, engineers and physicians gather to gamble humanity’s future on one last-ditch experiment. Their goal: to make a tiny alteration to the past, averting a global catastrophe while at the same time leaving recorded history intact. To make the experiment work, they just need one last recruit: an ageing schoolteacher whose late mother was the foremost expert on the mathematics of paradox.
2028: a young woman goes into surgery for routine brain surgery. In the days following her operation, she begins to hear another voice in her head... an unwanted presence which seems to have a will, and a purpose, all of its own – one that will disrupt her life entirely. The only choice left to her is a simple one.
Does she resist ... or become a collaborator?