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#185 The big freeze: Ice and Iron (1974) by Wilson Tucker
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Confronting a time mystery as a new ice age looms
Climate breakdown, and rising temperatures, are a fact of life. But in the 1970s, there was a subset of climate scientists who believed that global cooling was going to be the challenge of the 21st century. Ice and Iron is a little-discussed 1974 novel by the author, critic and fan Wilson Tucker which explores this scenario. It also follows a strange conflict between heavily armed women from the future, and violent nomads, apparently from prehistory.
Can the eccentric researcher Fisher Highsmith solve a mystery of deep time and the human future?
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