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Iron Winter

Stephen Baxter (2012)

SubgenreFantasy
Age groupAdult 18+
Content ratingPG-13
Pages474 (Chunky (400-600))
Setting
CSM age13+
Goodreads3.67/5 (461)

Content levels

ViolenceModerate
Sexual contentNone
LanguageMild

Protagonist archetypes

Ensemble CastMultiple POVs

Synopsis

"Many generations ago, the Wall was built to hold back the sea. A simple dam, it grew into a vast linear city, home to scholars, builders, and merchants. Northland's prosperity survived wars and unrest--and brought the whole of Europe together. But now darkness is falling. Days grow shorter, temperatures colder, and in the wake of long winters come famine, destruction, and terror. As a mass exodus to warmer climes threatens to fracture Northland, one man believes he can outwit the cold, and even salvage some scraps of the great civilization--before interminable gloom settles over the land; before the fires of war lay waste to an empire; before the ice comes..."--

Tags

Alternate HistoryApocalypticHard FantasySpeculative FictionHistorical Fantasy